Psychological Safety Among Learners: When Connection Is More Than Just Communication

摘要

Bynum and Haque's commentary Risky Business: Psychological Safety and the Risks of Learning Medicine~(~(1)) underscores the importance of our finding~(~(2)) (published in the same issue of the Journal of Graduate Medical Education ) of the association between psychological safety and the clinical learning environment.Since the publication of our article, we have (1) conducted additional analyses on new data from our institution's annual survey~(~(3)) of physician residents at the Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium and its affiliated hospitals; (2) held a focus group of medical students and residents to assess their interactions with supervisors; and (3) reviewed the literature in medical education on interpersonal connections between team members and patients.