I Screwed up! Admitting My Mistake and Learning from It.
Description
Medical physicists go through several failures in their career path, from student life to clinical or research training to being a staff of faculty. The mistakes/screw ups are learning experience for the individual or their local team but can also be a teaching moment in a professional symposium. We propose to promote psychological safety in your local environment as well as in a professional society environment, where we can freely admit to making mistakes and witnessing near misses without fear of negative consequences. If we dare to share what went wrong or what could have gone further wrong (in case of near misses), that awareness can be helpful to avoid similar situations for others. Seven speakers at different stages of their medical physics career will be invited to share their story on what went wrong on a unique aspects and tasks of a medical physicist – clinical implementation project, research project, clinical trial project, inter-disciplinary or inter-institutional projects, collaboration with a physician, etc. The proposal for each speaker is to share a unique and true incident that occurred to them, or they witnessed in seven minutes. The story of the incident should include the situation what was expected, what went wrong, how they dealt with it, what was the consequence and what was the lessons learnt. We will have 10 mins at the end of session for the audience to ask follow up question or share their own stories as well.