Grand Rounds | Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Shame and Sentinel Emotional Events in Health Professions Learners

Shining a light on the experience and presence of shame in medicine
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Contacts

Janette Rodrigues, administrative director, GW Resiliency & Well-being Center, jrodrigues@gwu.edu

Join us for a grand rounds on "Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Shame and Sentinel Emotional Events in Health Professions Learners" by Will Bynum, MD, Associate Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke University School of Medicine. Dr. Bynum is an international leader in research on self-conscious emotion (shame, guilt, & pride) in medical learners. He is part of a small but growing group of researchers looking at the nature of shame, exploring ways to drive meaningful culture change in healthcare, and promoting resilience development in healthcare professionals and trainees. In addition to ongoing empiric research, he has given numerous seminars, grand rounds, and workshops on shame in medical education.

Objectives: By the end of this talk, attendees will be able to:

• Define and differentiate shame and guilt and describe by this distinction matters

• Outline triggers, contributing factors, and effects of shame in health professions learners

• Describe specific identity processes implicated in shame experiences

• List specific strategies for advancing shame resilience in health professions education

Brief Overview: In this presentation, the speaker will use personal narrative, audience response, and visually stimulating PowerPoint slides to provide an exploration of the psychology of shame, research on shame in medical learners, and high-level strategies to advance shame resilience in health professions education.

Video: The Shame Conversation

Website: The Shame Conversation Project

Sponsors: GW Resiliency & Well-being Center and the Office of the Associate Dean for Evaluation & Educational Research