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How to make mistakes and recover from them as a resident

By The DO Staff

12.21.22

As a medical student, you learn to develop an early tolerance for being wrong. A lot. It’s a difficult and uncomfortable skill, but you quickly build a healthy respect for the missed questions because those are the ones you learn the most from.