Addressing the elephant in the room: a shame resilience seminar for medical students. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Addressing the elephant in the room: a shame resilience seminar for medical students. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published August 2019

Addressing the elephant in the room: a shame resilience seminar for medical students.

Bynum WE IV, Adams AV, Edelman CE, Uijtdehaage S, Artino AR Jr, Fox JW. Acad Med. 2019;94:1132-1136.

This commentary discusses an educational initiative to help medical students manage their response to shame. The program sought to help students understand the difference between shame and guilt, enhance recognition of shame, improve ability to recover from a shame reaction, and increase willingness to reach out when feeling shame.

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