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Physician Success Tool - Confidence Series confidence physician tools

Welcome to our current featured series: Physician Success Tool - Confidence, where we explore the dynamics of self-confidence...

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Trusting your gut, hand-off bias, and building your 'why's' bias connection family medicine gut physician resident why

I was a second-year resident on my pediatric emergency medicine month. I had worked enough shifts to become comfortable with ...

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Diving into perfectionism academic medicine family medicine perfectionism physician residency resident physician

How many of you in residency feel (felt) that perfection is (was) your standard?  Do you recognize the sensation of defeat or...

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