Amanda C. Trimble, BVMS, MS, MScVetEd, DACVIM-LAIM: No financial relationships to disclose
Presentation Description / Summary: This presentation is a follow-up from Forum 2023 titled "The Effect of Educator Emotion and Mindset on Learning Efficacy." Little research exists surrounding the impact of emotions and particularly imposter syndrome on educators and their ability to learn. With increasing opportunities to pursue advanced degrees and continuing education opportunities in medical education, we must seek to understand how academic faculty experience feelings self-doubt and still push forward in the learning cycle. We examined the ways these educator-learners respond to the challenge of being a novice learner in an unfamiliar discipline, and the potential impacts self-doubt has on learning. Through interpretive phenomenology and epistemic emotion theory, we postulated that feelings of imposter syndrome would affect the ability to learn in veterinary professionals undertaking a masters project in veterinary education. Using critical incident technique (CIT) to analyze faculty narratives (n = 7), we identified common academic faculty imposter experiences and the effects of these thoughts and emotions on learning and teaching. In-depth insights gained though undertaking the study are useful both at an individual level, improving self-knowledge and emotional processing, and in smoothing developmental trajectories of educators in the discipline of veterinary medicine education and beyond.
Learning Objectives:
-Recognize the potential impacts self-doubt and imposter syndrome have on educators who are also learners.
-Understand that self-doubt can also promote learning in educator-learners, and we can target professional development to these aspects of the learning cycle.
