Perspectives on Medical Education Special Edition

We’ve all tried things that didn’t work. We’ve enthusiastically introduced a flipped classroom format that the learners didn’t flip over. We’ve carefully crafted research projects only to realize that the hypothesis was woefully ill-conceived. We’ve implemented new assessment strategies that generated lots of data, but left us with little insight into student performance. We’ve all been there. However, it is often through these moments of failure that we gain real in-depth understanding of a phenomenon, that we realign our perspectives in important ways, and that we experience our most resonant ‘a-ha’ insights. Indeed, sometimes our mistakes are more informative than our successes. Problematically, there are few opportunities to share these lessons learned with the broader community. Where