Towards an understanding of resilience and its relevance to medical training

Medical Education 2012: 46 : 349–356 Objectives This article explores the concept of resilience and its potential relevance to medicine. It also looks at the dimensions of resilience and its ethical importance for effective professional practice, and considers whether a focus on resilience might be useful in medical training. Methods An applied literature search was conducted across the domains of education, ethics, psychology and sociology to...