Allowing failure for educational purposes in postgraduate clinical training: A narrative review

Background: Educational domains such as pedagogy or psychology have embraced the philosophy that "allowing failure" in training and practice is essential to learn. In clinical training, however, allowing learners to fail is not explicitly discussed as a strategy, possibly due to the negative implications for patients. Therefore, we do not know whether clinical supervisors allow trainees to fail for educational purposes and, if so, how this...