PurposePhysicians regularly encounter challenging and/or complex situations in their practices; in training settings, they must help learners understand such challenges. Context becomes a fundamental construct when seeking to understand what makes a situation challenging and how physicians respond to it; however, the question of how physicians perceive context remains largely unexplored. If the goal is to teach trainees to deal with challenging situations, the medical education community requires an understanding of what “challenging” means for those in charge of training.
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