On Dunning-Kruger, Surgical Self Assessment, and some Surgical Buzzwords too Watch out For
Academic OB/GYN
by Nicholas Fogelson
3y ago
It’s been well documented that people are generally poor judges of their own skills. Dunning and Kruger studied and published on this topic, creating the term Dunning-Kruger effect, which summed up, states that “poor performers are not in a position to recognize the shortcomings in their own performance”. Ehrlinger et all followed Dunning-Kruger in their paper “Why the Unskilled are Unaware: Further Explorations of (Absent) Self-insight Among the Incompetent,” further coming to the conclusion that the relatively unskilled are unaware that they lack those skills. Other papers have shown that i ..read more
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Remembering Paul Underwood
Academic OB/GYN
by Nicholas Fogelson
3y ago
Last week marked the passing of one of my early teachers and mentors, Dr Paul Underwood. Dr Underwood was a professor emeritus at Medical University of South Carolina, where I attended a residency from 2001 to 2005. I was fortunate to get to train in a residency that was full of extraordinary people. Little did I know that not every department was like that. MUSC was an incredibly caring environment that looked after each resident like a member of family. Paul Underwood was a big part of that. I can also say that without Dr Underwood, I would not be an endometriosis surgeon today. There is no ..read more
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Announcing the Endometriosis Podcast!
Academic OB/GYN
by Nicholas Fogelson
5y ago
Hello Academic OB/GYN Fans! I am proud to announce the launch of my new podcast project, The Endometriosis Podcast, with my collaborator and co-host Libby Hopton.  The Endometriosis podcast is bimonthly discussion of the most recent literature in the endometriosis world.   With Producer Andrea Muraskin as well. Please listen, subscribe, and leave comments/reviews on iTunes. Available at iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-endometriosis-podcast/id1462226534 Available at Stitcher: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/andrea-muraskin-2/the-endometriosis-podcast ..read more
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