Medical residents often rely on mental shortcuts when prescribing medications. Interventions are offered for reducing sub-optimal prescribing by managing stress and perceived pressure.

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This mixed-methods study identified goals, strategies, barriers and enablers of longitudinal learning and caregiving. Findings are situated within the framework of relational learning and can inform faculty development.

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The authors identify distinctive educational affordances of external observation in general practice training that can complement supervisor observation of trainees.

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The authors evidence preparation strategies associated with success in medical school selection while highlighting how challenging they are to access for socio-demographic groups underrepresented in medicine.

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Using critical realism, this study reports on how and why balancing the interplay between learner and faculty agency, assessment structures, and the cultural system is key to developing new assessment practices.

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Schumacher et al highlight how clinical competency/entrustment committee members place considerable value on trainees knowing their limits and seeking help when making decisions about entrusting trainees in the future.

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In their exploration of mental health stigma, Sukhera et al. found tension between professionals' heroic public disclosures of vulnerability and private contexts that reward and expect perfectionism.

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This phenomenological study explored how members of the medical education community have experienced grief and relief through the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to critical reflections on how they want to live in the future.

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Du et al. reveal high variation in participants' perceptions of professional agency, indicating a need for establishing a common understanding of PBL facilitation in context.

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Pre-clinical learning materials on pelvic examination are found to under-represent specific populations, present limited patient preferences, and centre clinical authority over patient agency, undermining notions of patient centredness and cultural competence.

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