After spending five years preparing to prescribe IV fluids, senior students felt unprepared to do so. Contradictions, overlaps, and gaps within the curriculum introduced extraneous complexity. Confusion and apprehension resulted. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…

Institutions used metaphors of heroism to celebrate medical graduates whilst the graduates identified themselves as incapable, vulnerable and fearful because the institutions had not taught them to practise. asmepublications.onlinelibra…

UK students becoming doctors were unready for safe practice during COVID. Despite copious teaching and exams, inexperience of practice can cause paralysing fear. More supported experience could make students useful members of stretched clinical teams and safer graduates