How we see ourselves: a resident's reflection on the class play.
The "class play" is an annual tradition in residency training programs and medical schools that celebrates the end of the academic year. It is also a locally generated narrative that reveals important components of an institution's values, culture, and group dynamics. Exploring the class play is a reflexive exercise that allows one to reflect on his or her professional development and place in the department in a structural, historical, and experience-near driven way. In this way, the creation of and examining of the class play may be seen as an opportunity to understand and expand upon medicine's Hidden Curriculum.
Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr, Box 92, New York, NY, 10032, USA, rbd2116@columbia.edu.
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D003469:Culture; D004324:Drama; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D012649:Self Concept