A growth mindset approach and other tools for thriving in medical school and beyond with Professor Jill Klein

Welcome to Season 5 of the podcast. In this first episode,  It's my great pleasure to introduce Professor Jill Klein. In addition to numerous other hats and talents Jill is Professor  of Marketing at Melbourne Business School and Professorial Fellow in Medical Education at Melbourne Medical School.
     Jill received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Michigan in 1990 and since then has taught at top universities and business school around the world. She joined the faculty at Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University in 1990, and the faculty at INSEAD in 1997.She has also been a visiting scholar at Duke University, Helsinki School of Business and Economics, and University of Texas at Austin. She joined Melbourne Business School in 2009, and Melbourne Medical School in 2015.      Jill teaches Resilience and Well-Being, Managerial Judgment, Clinical Decision Making, and Leadership. Her research interests are in resilience and well-being, decision making, business ethics and ethical consumption. She has published widely, including in the British Medical Journal, Medical Education, Management Science, Journal of Consumer Researchand Harvard Business Review. She authored the book, We Got the Water: Tracing My Family’s Path Through Auschwitz, and is currently writing (with Dr Jordyn Feingold), Thriving in Medial School, a well-being book for medical students. She often appears in the media, and has had pieces published in The Guardian, Australian Financial Review, The Age and Huffington Post.
     I had the great privilege of being taught Managerial Judgement  by Jill at the Melbourne Business School in late 2023 and was struck by  the importance of her work and applied expertise in healthcare. This work is very much aligned with this podcast mission and listenership. In this conversation we hear more about Jill's early career experiences and how these may have contributed to her subsequent trajectory, research interests and teaching mission. I was particularly keen to explore her work around clinical error and growth mindset. Jill fields some tough questions from me on the topic of resilience in healthcare and we are treated to a taster of her upcoming book "Thriving in Medical School".  I anticipate a successful "Thriving In..." book series to come.  Thank you Professor Klein, I very much hope there will be part 2 to this episode at a later date.

This episode of dedicated to incredible life and memory of Gene Klein, Jill's dear and    beloved best friend and father.

Links/References/ Contacts:
https://mbs.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty/jill-klein
https://www.amazon.com.au/We-Got-Water-Tracing-Auschwitz/dp/0615806961 Growth mindset YouTube series for medical students
https://youtu.be/YdmlTf8zTYQ?si=tpUvLC56C2fXLHeM
Jill's Recommendations:
https://ig.ft.com/sites/business-book-award/books/2023/winner/right-kind-of-wrong-by-amy-edmondson/

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