🧠 Reflective Practice

Reflective Practice refers to a physician’s ability to critically evaluate their own clinical decisions, behaviors, and performance in order to learn and improve continuously.

In the context of ACGME and residency training:

Reflective Practice is a professional competency that involves:

Recognizing strengths and limitations

Identifying errors or suboptimal care

Seeking feedback from peers, mentors, or patients

Applying insights from experience to future situations

Why it's important:

Encourages lifelong learning

Reduces cognitive biases

Enhances clinical judgment

Promotes safe, ethical, and patient-centered care

In short:

Reflective Practice = thinking about what you did, why you did it, and how you could do it better next time.