Addressing Imposter Phenomenon: Leveraging Prior Knowledge to Support a Sense of Belonging in Medical Learners
摘要
Medical students arrive in medical school with a whole set of lived experiences. Educational theory tells us that understanding these experiences and drawing on them during learning allows learners to develop deeper and more meaningful understandings of the work. Honoring the knowledge, both academic and non-academic, that students arrive with in medical school also serves to help students to develop a sense of belonging in their medical community.