Advocacy inquiry and circular questioning to maintain psychological safety in training, feedback, and conversations with residents

Abstract

Training of emergency physicians through an emergency medicine residency program takes 5 years, that is, 3 years in junior residency and 2 years in senior residency. Throughout this period, residents will be exposed to a variety of educational methodologies and meet a spectrum of faculty, supervisors, and teachers, who will have different personalities, styles, and approaches to teaching and nurturing them. It is important to ensure the maintenance of psychological safety for these residents throughout their training journey and into the future years of practice s an emergency physician.

Keywords

Advocacy / Circular questions / Emergency medicine / Inquiry / Residents

Conflict of interest statement

The author declares no conflict of interest.

Author contributions

Lateef F wrote this paper.

Funding

None.

Ethical approval of studies and informed consent

Not applicable.

Acknowledgments

None.

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