Beyond receiving: feedback literacy as a catalyst for resident growth, a scoping review
Alison Freeth, Sandra Carr · 2026
Read Beyond receiving: feedback literacy as a catalyst for resident growth, a scoping review by Alison Freeth, Sandra Carr (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13520860.txt.
Description
Alison Freeth and Sandra Carr review what is known about teaching young doctors to actually use the feedback they receive, in this 2026 scoping review. Feedback literacy is the receiver's craft: appreciating critique, judging one's own performance honestly, managing the sting, and acting on it. Programs pour effort into giving feedback; whether residents can metabolize it is another question.
Searching three databases for studies from 2015 to 2024, the team screened 1,048 papers and kept 15. The lens was the Carless and Boud framework, with its four capacities. Residents valued feedback, the studies agree, but engagement varied enormously. The later capacities, judging oneself, handling emotion, taking action, were barely studied at all. Only one paper tested an intervention to build the skill, and none followed its long-term effect on learning or patient care. The review maps a field long on appreciation and short on everything after it.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Alison Freeth, Sandra Carr |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 35 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |