How Can I Know What I Don't Know? Poor Self Assessment in a Well-Defined Domain

As the rapidity with which medical knowledge isgenerated and disseminated becomes amplified,an increasing emphasis has been placed on theneed for physicians to develop the skillsnecessary for life-long learning. One suchskill is the ability to evaluate one's owndeficiencies. A ubiquitous finding in thestudy of self-assessment, however, is thatself-ratings are poorly correlated with otherperformance measures. Still, many educatorsview the …