The term 'insight'is generically defined in English language as the ability to perceive deeper
truths about people and situations. In clinical practice, patient insight is known to have …

Intra-and interpersonal competences (IICs) are essential for medical expertise. However, the
effects of current medical curricula seem to not be sustainable enough, even though poorly …

Reflection has been proclaimed as a means to help physicians deal with medicine's
inherent complexity and remedy many of the shortcomings of medical education. Yet, there …

Background Some doctors who perform poorly appear not to be aware of how their
performance compares with accepted practice. The way that professionals maintain their …

Background Clinicians recognize insight as important for safe independent medical practice.
Clinical education literature focuses on self‐reflection. The aim of this review is to describe …

Medical students enter medical school hoping to have good relationships with their patients.
Along with residents, however, they are exposed to a hidden curriculum that places the …

To restore the “humanism” in medical care, medical education needs to espouse the goal of
creating physician-healers. Critical, and often neglected, factors in healing are the personal …

From Mark Quirk, recipient of the 2006 Society of Teachers of Family Medicine's Excellence
in Education award, comes the latest on improving medical education. In this volume, Quirk …

I conducted my study as an action research project within the context of my workplace, a
large-scale health provider based in the Midwest region of the United States. The …

This chapter starts by discussing the theoretical roots of the idea that reflection on
experience is the basic mechanism for learning and improvement of professional practice …