Educating Medical Students in Receiving Feedback: The Importance of Self-Reflection [Response to Letter]

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Andrew Matthews, 1 Jeffrey H William 2 1Department of Medicine, Clinical Fellow in Hematology-Oncology, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health Systems, Philadelphia, PA, USA; 2Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USACorrespondence: Jeffrey H WilliamHarvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Boston, MA, USAEmail [email protected] In Response to Oliveira et al:While we agree that self-reflection is vitally important in applying feedback, our workshop focused on the ability to appropriately receive feedback in the moment (or in “real-time”). The skills taught in the live session were geared toward this clinical environment—when feedback provided may be brief and less formal than standard feedback sessions.   View the original paper by Matthews and colleagues   This is in response to the Letter to the Editor