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How We See Ourselves: A Resident’s Reflection on the Class Play

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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.

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  1. Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute, 1051 Riverside Dr, Box 92, New York, NY, 10032, USA

    Ravi DeSilva

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DeSilva, R. How We See Ourselves: A Resident’s Reflection on the Class Play. J Med Humanit 35, 435–438 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10912-014-9270-z

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