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Special MERIT Rounds
Sibley Lecture with Dr. Will Bynum (Duke University)
Addressing the 'Elephant in the Room': Shame and sentinel emotional events in medical learners
Participants will be guided through an exploration of the experience of shame in medical learners. After a brief overview of the psychology of shame, they will learn about recent research show how shame can be a sentinel emotional event in the life of a medical learner. Participants will learn about the events related to patient care, learning, and assessment that can trigger shame and the individual and environmental factors that can contribute to it. Finally, they will be equipped with specific strategies to identify and support a shamed learner and to build shame resilient learning environments.
The John C. Sibley Award ceremony with special wine & cheese reception will immediately follow the lecture in the same room.
About Will Bynum
Dr. Bynum's primary academic interest centers on the role of self-conscious emotions (shame, guilt, and pride) in the medical learning experience, and he is executing this body of research through PhD training in health professions education. Having published about shame in residents he and his team are currently researching how pre-clinical and clinical medical students experience the emotion.
Registration is required. Please register one person at a time.