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

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 jhwillia@bidmc.harvard.edu In Response to Oliveira et al:While we agree that self-reflection is vitally important in applying feedback, ourworkshop 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 thisclinical environment-when feedback provided may be brief and less formal thanstandard feedback sessions. View the original paper by Matthews and colleagues This is in response to the Letter to the Editor