Impostor syndrome in general practice: a cost of expert generalism – BJGP Life

Impostor syndrome in general practice: a cost of expert generalism – BJGP Life

Simon Tobin has has been a GP in Southport for 33 years It’s rare for me to carry out an appraisal without an appraisee confessing to a degree of imposter syndrome. This sentiment seems ubiquitous amongst my colleagues. The term imposter syndrome was coined in 1978 by clinical psychologists Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes. Interestingly, it does not appear as a diagnosis in the DSM-5 or ICD-11 but psychologists define it as a persistent internal…