ể ngăn chặn các kết quả như vậy, chúng ta cần phải đảm bảo rằng tất cả các đồng nghiệp của chúng tôi vẫn tiếp tục cảm thấy thách thức và phát triển trong suốt sự nghiệp của họ. Không có điểm mà tại đó chúng tôi hợp pháp có thể yêu cầu bồi thường để biết tất cả mọi thứ chúng ta cần phải biết và ngừng học hỏi. | Educational Leadership 159 throughout an organization. To prevent such outcomes we need to ensure that all of our colleagues continue to feel challenged and grow throughout their careers. There is no point at which we can legitimately claim to know everything we need to know and stop learning. Very few of us will ever be experts in psychology but it is vital that every medical educator and especially every leader in medical education be an avid student of it. How we perceive other people s motivations and behaviors deeply shapes how we work with them and incomplete or inaccurate understanding can generate immense problems in our programs. No matter how clinically knowledgeable and skilled we may be if we do not understand what makes others tick we will always find ourselves out of sync with them. A few gifted individuals may be able to make up for lack of training in this area through sheer intuition but for the rest of us the study of the human psyche is both necessary and fascinating. Educational Strategy A transatlantic jet airliner entered a large storm system where it was buffeted about by strong winds. During the most intense turbulence the passengers were startled to hear an explosion in the cockpit. Minutes later the co-pilot s voice was heard over the intercom Ladies and gentlemen we have sustained damage to our equipment as a result of the storm. I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that our plane s navigational system is ruined and we do not know in what direction we are traveling. The good news is that we are experience strong tailwinds and we are making record time. Sadly this story rings true for many educational leaders who find ourselves tossed about in a sea of turbulent change in medical education. Some of us have been working so hard just to keep our program s head above water that we have little energy left to think about where the currents are carrying us. Treading water is simply no way to navigate you get nowhere you soon grow .
