Category: Hidden Curriculum

• The Hidden Curriculum: The Lessons of Microaggressions

  

  “He didn’t mean anything by it when he did that.”  “She only said it because she doesn’t know any better.” “Don’t take it personally. They didn’t mean it that way.” Microaggressions refer to everyday, subtle, intentional, or unintentional interactions and behaviors that communicate some sort of bias toward historically marginalized groups. The term is not…

• Stop Giving Luck The Credit

  

  We do learners a disservice when we frame our success with luck. Stories that credit happenstance rather than our own doing teach that circumstances have more control over our success than we do.

• The Hidden Curriculum: Non-Negotiables

  

  What we as teachers can do is take an interest in the non-negotiable of trainees and help them understand how we, ourselves, integrate our non-negotiables into the demands of life.

• The Hidden Curriculum: Specialty Disrespect

  

  Specialty disrespect is a pervasive behavior in medicine. And, with the worsening of healthcare silos and the decline of face-to-face interactions, specialty disrespect is only getting worse.

• The Hidden Curriculum: Asking Permission

  

  “Do you mind if I sit on your bed?” It was my third year of medical school during my internal medicine rotation. My attending asked this question to a patient we were seeing on the wards. The question itself struck me as interesting. 

• The Hidden Curriculum of Medical Training

  

  While we train students and residents to be experts in clinical knowledge, patient care, and medical research, it may be coming at the expense of another curriculum – the hidden curriculum.