Learning from Failure in Medicine

Our ability to grow and learn from error is as human as the errors themselves. For part 3 of our series on Failure in Medicine, we focus on how medical trainees and professionals can better learn from their mistakes. We talk with Dr. Peter Weir, whose work in health system innovation within the departments of Family & Preventive Medicine and Population Health Sciences at the University of Utah inspired his piece entitled “How to Learn from Failure” outlining common types of failure medical trainees experience and what each of these can teach us.

Find Dr. Weir's piece here: https://accelerate.uofuhealth.utah.edu/leadership/peter-weir-how-medicine-can-learn-from-failure

And go check out Dr. Weir's podcast, Communivation: https://accelerate.uofuhealth.utah.edu/connect/communivation