Document Type
Article
Abstract
Healthcare graduate students are constantly adapting to various practice settings and increased rigor to meet program expectations. This increasing level of high expectations and having to perform in front of competent clinicians often induce feelings of inadequacy, anxiety, and fraudulent characteristics of a student impostor. Individuals who identify with the impostor phenomenon may set high self-standards of performance to feel worthy, feel fraudulent, and lack a sense of belonging, and often attribute personal successes to external sources or situations. Identifying the student impostor is the initial step to fostering student success in the clinic. Clinical and academic faculty suspecting a student impostor should take immediate measures to intervene to prevent further decay of the student’s clinical experience. Unmasking the student impostor followed with swift interventions using suggested strategies provided in this paper will improve the student’s and preceptor's overall clinical experience, leading to a positive outcome.
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Repository Citation
Durham, Allison J. and Anderson, Stefanie, "Unmasking the Student Impostor: Remedies for the Impostor Phenomenon to Promote Student Success in the Clinic" (2022). School of Physical and Occupational Therapy Faculty Publications. 7.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/physical_therapy_pub/7
Publication Date
2022
Publication Title
Education in the Health Professions
Publisher
Wolters Kluwer
DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/EHP.EHP_36_21
Volume
5
Issue
1
Start Page No.
1
End Page No.
3