We strive to build and maintain learning environments that:
- are psychologically safer, allowing for full engagement with the challenges and discomforts of learning medicine
- value inclusivity, ensuring that all members of the program have the same opportunity to find belonging, meaning, and community
- facilitate authentic self-expression, allowing individuals to be themselves at work and to prioritize their personal identify formation alongside—and intertwined with—their professional identity formation
- value vulnerability, allow imperfection, and facilitate personal and professional growth, particularly during or after learning struggle
- maximally support resilience development, recognizing that there is no one-sized-fits-all approach to being well in residency
We do this by:
- nurturing meaningful relationships through fellowship, collaboration, and support. We have a lot of fun together
- training our faculty
- creating safe forums for sharing
- practicing vulnerability and candor
- actively looking for and addressing any threats to psychological safety
- maintaining clear policies and holding each other accountable
- adopting a growth mindset when we fail or fall short as a program
- being kind, respectful, and accountable to one another
- being kind, respectful, and accountable to ourselves
- valuing and honoring the families and partners of our residents
For a few examples of how some of these principles might look and sound, check out these blog posts:
- Joe Colosimo, Residency Graduate
- Cerrone Cohen, Former Associate Program Director
- Will Bynum, Former Program Director