{"title":"We cannot measure what we have not yet attempted to measure: Steps towards reconceptualising team-based assessments in the health professions","authors":"Stefanie S. Sebok-Syer, Daniel Tawfik","doi":"10.1111/medu.15762","DOIUrl":"10.1111/medu.15762","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There is more to teamwork than what can be observed. Focusing on uncovering the latent constructs of teamwork can help pave the way to efficient, accurate, and comprehensive measurement of teamwork within healthcare and HPE.</p>","PeriodicalId":18370,"journal":{"name":"Medical Education","volume":"59 9","pages":"895-897"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144575775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Marco Antonio de Carvalho Filho, Megan Milota, Frederic William Hafferty, Ligia Cayres Ribeiro
{"title":"Who are the intruders in medical education?","authors":"Marco Antonio de Carvalho Filho, Megan Milota, Frederic William Hafferty, Ligia Cayres Ribeiro","doi":"10.1111/medu.15771","DOIUrl":"10.1111/medu.15771","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We felt deeply intrigued and inspired by the manuscript that introduces the concept of the <i>intruder paradox</i> as a critical counterpoint to the widely discussed <i>impostor phenomenon</i>.<span><sup>1</sup></span> One of the most compelling contributions of this new concept is that it shifts the locus of the ‘problem’ from the individual psyche (impostor phenomenon) to the social structure within which this psyche is alleged to exist and communicate with both self and others (intruder paradox). Where the impostor phenomenon frames the experience of not belonging as a mistakenly internalised sense of fraudulence, the intruder paradox reframes it as an externally imposed experience of exclusion—especially for those who are seen to deviate from the historically dominant norms of medicine. In doing so, the concept invites us to interrogate the social architecture of medicine itself. Although conceptualised by the authors around the dimension of gender, the intruder paradox concept may inform intersecting processes of <i>othering</i> in medical education.</p><p>So, inspired by this reframing, we offer a provocation: Who, exactly, are the <i>intruders</i> in medical education and practice? And what are the cultural blueprints that ‘culturally clone’ certain kinds of professionals while simultaneously signalling other individuals or groups as outsiders?<span><sup>2</sup></span> We hope this reflection encourages further research into the structural dimensions of non-belonging and exclusion in the medical profession.</p><p>Our central argument is that modern medical education is designed—perhaps unintentionally but nevertheless, structurally—for the success of white, wealthy, subservient, men. This design is not neutral; it is encoded in the rituals, expectations and rhythms of medical training. Let us explore these four dimensions more deeply:</p><p>Medicine, as institutionalised in the West, is a colonial construct. It evolved in parallel with European expansionism, often replacing or suppressing traditional healing practices across the Global South. This coloniality is embedded in and enacted by modern medical professionalism, which continues to privilege Eurocentric values: objectivity, neutrality, emotional detachment and rationality.<span><sup>3</sup></span> These culturally specific values often act as gatekeepers to belonging. Trainees from non-European backgrounds may experience their identities and epistemologies as incompatible with the ‘whiteness’ of medicine—leading not to <i>impostorism</i> in the psychological sense, but to an enforced outsider status, as in the suggested intruder paradox.<span><sup>4, 5</sup></span></p><p>For instance, I, the first author of this commentary, a great-great-child of a traditional healer, vividly remember the first time I was exposed to a conversation about medical professionalism in a North-American conference. Several practices I understood as normal in my cultural context, such as crying during co","PeriodicalId":18370,"journal":{"name":"Medical Education","volume":"59 10","pages":"1026-1028"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12438021/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144567630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Constance Wraith, Alasdair Carnegy, Celia Brown, Ana Baptista, Amir H Sam
{"title":"Can educators distinguish between medical student and generative AI-authored reflections?","authors":"Constance Wraith, Alasdair Carnegy, Celia Brown, Ana Baptista, Amir H Sam","doi":"10.1111/medu.15750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.15750","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Reflection is integral to the modern doctor's practice and, whilst it can take many forms, written reflection is commonly found on medical school curricula. Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly being used, including in the completion of written assignments in medical curricula. We sought to explore if educators can distinguish between GenAI- and student-authored reflections and what features they use to do so.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This was a mixed-methods study. Twenty-eight educators attended a 'think aloud' interview and were presented with a set of four reflections, either all authored by students, all by GenAI or a mixture. They were asked to identify who they thought had written the reflection, speaking aloud whilst they did so. Sensitivity (AI reflections correctly identified) and specificity (student reflections correctly identified) were then calculated, and the interview transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Educators were unable to reliably distinguish between student and GenAI-authored reflections. Sensitivity across the four reflections ranged from 0.36 (95% CI: 0.16-0.61) to 0.64 (95% CI: 0.39-0.84). Specificity ranged from 0.64 (95% CI: 0.39-0.84) to 0.86 (95% CI: 0.60-0.96). Thematic analysis revealed three main themes when considering what features of the reflection educators used to make judgements about authorship: features of writing, features of reflection and educators' preconceptions and experiences.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>This study demonstrates the challenges in differentiating between student- and GenAI-authored reflections, as well as highlighting the range of factors that influence this decision. Rather than developing ways to more accurately make this distinction or trying to stop students using GenAI, we suggest it could instead be harnessed to teach students reflective practice skills, and help students for whom written reflection in particular may be challenging.</p>","PeriodicalId":18370,"journal":{"name":"Medical Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144540803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing deliberate practice in knot-tying with a novel task trainer measuring performance metrics.","authors":"Meng-Yu Wu","doi":"10.1111/medu.15765","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.15765","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18370,"journal":{"name":"Medical Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144540804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michelle D. Lazarus, Melanie Farlie, Md Nazmul Karim
{"title":"New horizons: Evolving approaches to uncertainty tolerance scale development","authors":"Michelle D. Lazarus, Melanie Farlie, Md Nazmul Karim","doi":"10.1111/medu.15732","DOIUrl":"10.1111/medu.15732","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The paper titled “Tolerance for uncertainty and medical students' specialty choices: A myth revisited” by Wegwarth and colleagues<span><sup>1</sup></span> provides additional evidence that the existing approaches for uncertainty tolerance scale development and evaluation in health professional learners<span><sup>2</sup></span> and professionals<span><sup>3</sup></span> may not be the optimal approach for measuring this complex construct. In this commentary, we discuss the predominant approaches currently taken in developing and evaluating uncertainty tolerance using scales and suggest ways to evolve these strategies to optimise measurement validity of this construct.</p><p>Uncertainty tolerance is defined as individuals' perceptions and responses to sources of uncertainty (such as ambiguity, probability or complexity).<span><sup>4</sup></span> An individuals' response to uncertainty is expressed by how they think, feel and act. Uncertainty tolerance construct modelling by Hillen and colleagues (2017)<span><sup>4</sup></span> describes a multi-component construct comprised of (1) the source of uncertainty, (2) how this source is perceived by an individual and (3) each subsequent response (emotions, thoughts and behaviours).<span><sup>4</sup></span> However, the degree to which these elements contribute to the overall measurement of this construct remains (ironically) uncertain.<span><sup>2, 3</sup></span> Further complicating this is the question as to the changeability of one's uncertainty tolerance, which influences measurement approaches. In the mid-20th Century, uncertainty tolerance was conceptualised as a static personality trait.<span><sup>4</sup></span> Mounting contemporary evidence, however, suggests that uncertainty tolerance is a dynamic and changeable state-based construct influenced by contextual and personal factors such as prior experiences, geographic location and reflective capacity.<span><sup>5</sup></span></p><p>There is evidence that uncertainty tolerance is, at least in part, state-based in learners. Learners can feel negatively about an experience of uncertainty but can act adaptively (e.g. with uncertainty tolerance) in response through their cognition and behaviour.<span><sup>6</sup></span> For example, a medical student evaluating a patient with fatigue, fever and joint pain may initially feel anxious, due to the broad range of potential differential diagnoses (stimulus). However, by relying on their training and prior experiences (e.g. moderators) they can adaptively respond—despite their feelings of anxiety (emotional response)—by gathering a history, recommending appropriate tests and consulting with peers and colleagues about the next step to take (behavioural responses) and feeling confident about these next steps in supporting the patient (cognitive response). If this students' uncertainty tolerance was being measured, would they be evaluated as intolerant of uncertainty because of their anxiety or tolerant of un","PeriodicalId":18370,"journal":{"name":"Medical Education","volume":"59 8","pages":"787-791"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/medu.15732","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144540806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A trainee-led national teaching model for rehabilitation medicine.","authors":"Ahmad Saif, Annie Price, Anas Hassan","doi":"10.1111/medu.15763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.15763","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18370,"journal":{"name":"Medical Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144528654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Burnout before and during COVID: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 48 698 trainees.","authors":"Shaun Prentice, Diana S Dorstyn, Nicola Massy-Westropp, Jill Benson, Taryn Elliott","doi":"10.1111/medu.15760","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.15760","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>Postgraduate medical trainees exhibit elevated burnout levels. COVID-related workplace stressors created a further mental health challenge, potentially exacerbating this issue. This review compared literature on burnout levels in postgraduate medical trainees published before and after COVID, with consideration of group differences (e.g., specialty and country).</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This systematic review and meta-analysis was registered on PROSPERO (CRD42023404618) and followed the updated PRISMA statement. Embase, Ovid Medline, Ovid PsycInfo and the Cochrane Collaborative were searched until April 2025. These results were supplemented with pearling and citation searching of included articles and previous reviews. Studies that administered the Maslach Burnout Inventory - Human Services Survey (MBI) to postgraduate medical trainees were eligible. Where studies met eligibility criteria but did not provide required data (i.e., sample size, means and standard deviations), authors were contacted to supply these data. Methodological reporting quality (QualSyst tool) and publication bias were assessed (funnel plots, trim-and-fill method), and between-group heterogeneity explored (subgroup analyses, meta-regression). Differences in burnout levels pre- and intra-COVID (i.e., before and after March 2020, respectively) were quantified using Hedges' g.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 3 930 unique studies identified, 245 were included, comprising 48 698 trainees. Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on burnout levels varied: although trainees' emotional exhaustion remained stable, reported levels of depersonalisation (from g<sub>w</sub> = 0.611 to 0.430, p = 0.045) and personal accomplishment fell (from g<sub>w</sub> = -0.348 to -0.626, p = 0.009). Specialty and country variations were evident, with emergency medicine trainees trainees reporting worse burnout during COVID, whereas anethesiology, psychiatry and urology trainees felt less burnt out by their work.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Wellbeing supports should be prioritized for front-line specialty trainees, who were vulnerable to work-related stressors that emerged during COVID. Interventions should focus on fostering a sense of competence and mastery, both of which can enhance personal accomplishment.</p>","PeriodicalId":18370,"journal":{"name":"Medical Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144528655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Amanda Roze des Ordons, Aliya Kassam, Rachel Ellaway
{"title":"Landscapes of psychological trauma in residency education: Exploring lived experiences","authors":"Amanda Roze des Ordons, Aliya Kassam, Rachel Ellaway","doi":"10.1111/medu.15747","DOIUrl":"10.1111/medu.15747","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Introduction</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Resident physicians may experience psychological trauma both at work and in their personal lives. Injury from trauma can impact learning, patient care, relationships, mental health and well-being. Residents' experiences of traumatic injury have not been well-described in the literature. The purpose of this study was to explore residents' lived experiences of psychological traumatic injury.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The research employed a hermeneutic phenomenological methodology. All residents at a single Canadian medical school and support professionals who work with them were invited to participate in semi-structured interviews. Anonymized transcripts were analysed in duplicate and findings interpreted through discussion amongst the research team.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Thirteen residents and three support professionals participated. Four core domains of lived experience within participant narratives were identified, each with multiple dimensions: impacts of traumatic injury (multifaceted, internal reactions, layered judgements), adaptations to traumatic injury (shifts in mindset and behaviour), traumatic injury over time (acknowledging, oscillation, meaning-making) and modifiers of traumatic injury (previous life experiences, internal resources, contextual circumstances). Three metanarratives intersecting these dimensions of experience were complexity, sociocultural influences and existential tensions.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In summary, residents' experiences of trauma and the associated traumatic injury are complex, highly individual and difficult to anticipate or resolve with linear support models. This research will help guide ways to better support residents while addressing problematic aspects of medical education that may contribute to experiences of trauma.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":18370,"journal":{"name":"Medical Education","volume":"59 9","pages":"983-995"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://asmepublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/medu.15747","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144506403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Po Ling Pauline Luk, Michelle Che Yan Lam, Yat Chun Lim, Mei Li Khong
{"title":"Fostering empathy: Gamified approach to address health care disparities.","authors":"Po Ling Pauline Luk, Michelle Che Yan Lam, Yat Chun Lim, Mei Li Khong","doi":"10.1111/medu.15755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.15755","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18370,"journal":{"name":"Medical Education","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144506402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}