Not matching is not failing: Lessons in medical education

I'm not surprised that I did not match. I started residency in a preliminary position without a clear sense of why. At the time, I experienced this as a personal failure. Only later did I come to see it as an educational one rooted in a mismatch between how I learned and how medical education measured readiness. As medical schools build classes with a greater breadth of experiences, individualized educational frameworks, like precision medical education, are paramount to the success of each student. They embrace learner variability and help students understand not just what they learn, but also how they learn.