Will Bynum
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273 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2022
last heard Oct 2022
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eliminating tests in order to address shame in medical education because tests are always gonna have a role and they have an important role.
Is a residency program director
I do go through a lot of applications and we have to have ways to manage those applications.
But more important, we have to have ways to try and predict who's going to be a good fit in our program and who has the potential to navigate the challenges of that program.
A number is one piece of information.
It's an important piece of information because it does tell us some things about the person, but it's the way in which we use it that's really can be problematic.
So if I use it to make a yes, no decision on a person without considering anything else about that person's application, about their
capacity to be a competent physician, about their empathy, etcetera.
I am narrowing.
Our understanding of that person and our representation of that person down to a single number that's highly flawed in its nature.
So with the numbers have to stay.
What we have to really examine is how we're using them and
way more important than that, how our use of that is affecting people emotionally, particularly in the way that they see themselves and understand themselves and the way that they believe the system sees them as potentially just a number.
Step one going past fail is a great thing.
It's not gonna solve all of our problems and it's probably not gonna solve many of our problems.
The way that we use step one and we'll continue to use other objective measures is more of a symptom of an underlying condition.
And that condition is our
Extreme reliance on scores.
as markers of worthiness, frankly, in in our profession.
And this goes well beyond the medical education and and uh walls of our hospitals.
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