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February 28, 2026Journal of Pain and Symptom Management0 citationsOpen Access

Do We Understand Each Other? Navigating Intergenerational Communication in Fellowship Training

ESEthan SilvermanCMCarla Khalaf McStayMBMollie A. Biewald

Key Points

  • To explore how intergenerational communication impacts interactions during fellowship training.
  • Qualitative analysis of communication experiences among fellows and trainers.
  • Surveys to gauge perceptions of communication effectiveness.
  • Case examples illustrating communication challenges.
  • Identified common barriers to effective communication between generations.
  • Highlighted the role of technology in facilitating or complicating communication.
  • Showed that misunderstandings often arise from different communication styles.

Abstract

“I got an urgent text about a fellow’s rotation schedule being cancelled while sipping Mai-tais on a beach in Hawaii on vacation. Ugh, I thought, is there any way to extend my out of basket response to my phone.”

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Silverman et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69a286850a974eb0d3c0179ahttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2026.02.013
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