Thread by @LiangRhea

Re-upping the latest excellent #feedback thread from @GStetsonMD @MedEdTwagTeam, and emphasizing this point- someone is not a 'struggling trainee' or, even worse, 'the difficult trainee'. 🤨
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https://twitter.com/GStetsonMD/status/1376945716493422599

A trainee not meeting expectations reflects on the unit as much as the trainee. Our local saying is 'not a trainee to fail until they are a *properly supported* trainee to fail'. Importantly, this does not mean the support provided to the last successful trainee is sufficient.2/6

Recall the difference between equality and equity. Teaching cannot be 'one size fits all'. Teaching must be tailored to prior knowledge, learning opportunities, learning goals, preferred ways of communicating, and much more*. 3/6

*#DiversityIceberg 👇👇👇. Read on!

In more than 3 decades of teaching (bc I was *that* Asian kid with the piano diploma before they left high school 🤣) there have been very few learners who could not reach the standard if you leave time and space for the stuff below the waterline. #DiversityIceberg 4/6

There might be lots of valid reasons why the trainee isn't absorbing info, can't concentrate, can't put in the hours, or reacts in different ways (hint- previous trauma can be HUGE). They might not tell you- and btw it's not your place to pry. But you CAN create safe space. 5/6

So, please- not 'the difficult trainee'.

That *actual human being* has succeeded through years of primary, secondary, undergrad, postgrad, specialty selection- to get to where they are. The chance that they are the entire problem is nil.

My general philosophy
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