I have encountered some situations lately with students entering the clinical setting who seem not to understand that everyone does not teach the same and that since one lecturer told them something in the didactic portion of their course that it must be positively true and my information must be incorrect. I explained that information presented is the same but we are now applying it to a patient, and they are not textbooks. I attribute this resistance to the student being young and somewhat overwhelmed, but had a rough time convincing her to trust that I would not steer her… >>>
