Moving Shame Workshop Series (Duke School of Medicine)

Shame is a powerful emotion that occurs in response to negative events such as making mistakes or experiencing mistreatment.  Shame in learners across the continuum of medical education can range from a fleeting emotion to a “sentinel emotional event” causing profound emotional and psychological distress, isolation, and impaired empathy, among other negative effects. Shame may be triggered by events related to patient care (e.g., medical error), learning (e.g., struggling to present a patient), assessment (e.g., low standardized test scores), and interpersonal interactions (e.g., mistreatment by a peer or supervisor), and it can be fuelled by factors such as perfectionism, comparisons to others, underrepresentation, and lack of psychological safety.

As we attempt to grapple with and understand shame in our medical training experiences, join Medicine and Motion for the Moving Shame Workshop Series, led by Drs. Gemma Lucas and Will Bynum.

This three-part workshop series will seek to recruit a small…