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IMPROV-ing The Impostor Phenomenon

NCT05230030 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 200

Last updated 2024-06-05

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Summary

The impostor phenomenon refers to feelings of self-doubt and fraudulence in one's own abilities, despite the presence of external evidence to suggest otherwise. Symptoms of the impostor phenomenon can impede achievement of career-related goals in medical trainees and impact resilience, stress levels, and burnout. If these symptoms go unnoticed, they could progress to a severity that threatens sustained wellness among medical trainees. Our research questions are: 1) Is the time of the academic year (e.g., beginning, middle, end) associated with severity in impostor phenomenon as measured by the Clance Impostor Phenomenon Scale (CIPS) in medical trainees at the University of Toronto? 2) Is participation in improvisation workshops over the course of an academic year a feasible intervention to mitigate symptoms of impostor phenomenon in medical trainees at the University of Toronto? Combined, our two-part study will explore peak risk periods of impostor phenomenon and whether improvisation workshops are a feasible intervention to address this.

Conditions

  • Impostor Phenomenon

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Improvisation Workshop

Each improvisation workshop will involve a series of exercises derived from an improvisation game book previously developed by study investigators, followed by a reflective debrief of the experience.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Toronto

    collaborator OTHER

  • University Health Network, Toronto

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Esther Bui, MD · University Health Network, Toronto

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
SEQUENTIAL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-01-17
Primary Completion
2024-01-31
Completion
2024-01-31

Countries

  • Canada

Study Locations

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