Context Reflection and reflective practice have become popular topics of scholarly dialogue
in medical education. This popularity has given rise to checklists, portfolios and other tools to …

One of the major tasks of medical educators is to help maintain and increase trainee
empathy for patients. Yet research suggests that during the course of medical training …

Recent calls for an expanded perspective on medical education and training include
focusing on complexities of professional identity formation (PIF). Medical educators are …

Purpose Reflective writing (RW) curriculum initiatives to promote reflective capacity are
proliferating within medical education. The authors developed a new evaluative tool that can …

Medical educators increasingly have embraced literary and narrative means of pedagogy,
such as the use of learning portfolios, reading works of literature, reflective writing, and …

The humanities offer great potential for enhancing professional and humanistic development
in medical education. Yet, although many students report benefit from exposure to the …

Background Graduate medical education programs employ reflection to advance a range of
outcomes for physicians in training. However, the most effective applications of this tool have …

The promotion of reflective capacity within the teaching of clinical skills and professionalism
is posited as fostering the development of competent health practitioners. An innovative …

Trainee distress and burnout continue to be serious concerns for educational programs in
medicine, prompting the implementation of numerous interventions. Although an expansive …

Aim: Clerkship-specific interactive reflective writing (IRW)-enhanced reflection may enhance
professional identity formation (PIF), a fundamental goal of medical education. PIF process …