Role modelling also takes place at the level of the hidden curriculum – the set of influences conveyed by the attitudes, policies and culture within an organisation.

It is worth considering how our institutions unknowingly influence our own approach to work… Furthermore, we should examine and explain our behaviours to learners, thereby making their implicit observations explicit. To improve role modelling, we should consciously recognise the potential positive or negative impact of our behaviour on those who seek to learn from us. This also highlights the potential negative effect of role modelling on the professional behaviours of learners. Adam’s role modelling positively impacts Shruti’s clinical development demonstrated by her increase in clinical competence and realistic expectations, however we can also attribute some of her later negative behaviours to him, including her own initial dismissiveness towards a junior colleague and nursing staff. All role models function in the informal curriculum – the unplanned, interpersonal forms of teaching and learning – in contrast to the course objectives that make up the formal curriculum (3). Role modelling is an important phenomenon in medical education, describing the learning process in which seniors can demonstrate skills, knowledge and behaviours to learners. The show depicts an exhausted and frustrated Registrar, Adam, who is often abrupt with his Senior House Officer (SHO) Shruthi, to whom he becomes a role model. To improve role modelling, we should consciously recognise the potential positive or negative impact of our behaviour…

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