How Feeling Like an Imposter Can Impede Your Success

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital and Research Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
² Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Rady Children's Hospital, University of California-San Diego, San Diego, California, USA.
³ Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Division of Cardiology, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁴ Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Emory Women's Heart Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁶ Bassett Medical Center, Cooperstown, New York, USA.
⁷ Department of Cardiology, St. Louis Heart and Vascular, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

Editorial

F Aaysha Cader et al. JACC Case Rep. 2021.

. 2021 Feb 17;3(2):347-349.

doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.01.003. eCollection 2021 Feb.

¹ Department of Cardiology, Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital and Research Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
² Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Rady Children's Hospital, University of California-San Diego, San Diego, California, USA.
³ Cardiac Arrhythmia Center, Division of Cardiology, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA.
⁴ Division of Cardiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Emory Women's Heart Center, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁶ Bassett Medical Center, Cooperstown, New York, USA.
⁷ Department of Cardiology, St. Louis Heart and Vascular, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: cardiologists; imposter syndrome; medicine; physicians.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.

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