ContextCore physician activities of lifelong learning, continuing medical education credit,
relicensure, specialty recertification, and clinical competence are linked to the abilities of …

The great majority of medical diagnoses are made using automatic, fast, and frugal cognitive
processes; they are correct most of the time. This analytic review concerns the exceptions …

Background Simulation has become integral to the training of both undergraduate medical
students and medical professionals. Due to the increasing degree of realism and range of …

An important work from a leading scholar, this book explores self-development from early
childhood to adulthood. Susan Harter traces the normative stages that define the emergence …

Purpose Mistakes are ubiquitous in medicine; when confronted by error, physicians may
experience anxiety, guilt, and self-doubt. Feedback may be useful for navigating these …

In this chapter, I provide argument and evidence that the scope of people's ignorance is
often invisible to them. This meta-ignorance (or ignorance of ignorance) arises because lack …

Research from numerous corners of psychological inquiry suggests that self-assessments of
skill and character are often flawed in substantive and systematic ways. We review empirical …

Successful negotiation of everyday life would seem to require people to possess insight
about deficiencies in their intellectual and social skills. However, people tend to be blissfully …

With the introduction of Tomorrow's Doctors in 1993, medical education began the transition
from a time-and process-based system to a competency-based training framework …

People are typically overly optimistic when evaluating the quality of their performance on
social and intellectual tasks. In particular, poor performers grossly overestimate their …