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Interns acquire essential workplace skills through trial and error, peer guidance, and reflection, rather than formal instruction. Enhancing this learning may involve targeted feedback and structured reflection to improve skill acquisition.

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Background:

Essential workplace skills for interns are often inadequately taught.
Role-specific skills like task management and patient handoffs are not reinforced like core medical knowledge.
Understanding intern learning of these skills can improve their professional development.

Purpose of the Study:

To examine how interns acquire role-specific workplace skills.
To identify learning processes and influencing factors for intern skill development.

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Qualitative study utilizing semistructured interviews.
16 internal medicine residents participated.
Template analysis of interview transcripts to identify themes.

Main Results:

Interns learn through iterative trial and error, peer/supervisor input, and task outcome reflection.
Time and workload pressures were perceived as positive learning influences.
Learning was retrospective and subjective, lacking formal goal setting or benchmarks.

Conclusions:

Interns often acquire role-specific skills via unstructured, iterative methods.
Targeted reflection, teaching, and supervisor feedback could enhance skill acquisition.
Findings align with existing workplace learning literature.