Keeping mum in clinical supervision: private thoughts and public judgments

Catherine E Scarff; Margaret Bearman; Neville Chiavaroli; Stephen Trumble

doi:10.1111/medu.13728

Keeping mum in clinical supervision: private thoughts and public judgments

Catherine E Scarff, Margaret Bearman, Neville Chiavaroli, Stephen Trumble

Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER)

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Abstract

The seemingly obvious claim that people prefer to keep mum about undesirable messages - termed 'the MUM effect' - was initially reported in the psychology literature in the 1970s. More recently, it has been discussed in contexts including performance appraisals and the reporting of unsuccessful projects in workplace settings, but only sparsely in educational ones. We wished to review the published literature on the MUM effect in order to understand the implications for clinical assessment.

Original language	English
Journal	Medical Education
Volume	53
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/medu.13728
Publication status	Published - Feb 2019

Keywords

Clinical assessment
Clinical supervision
MUM effect

Disciplines

Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research
Medicine and Health Sciences

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