@article {Young162, author = {Tim Young}, title = {Not winning is good for you}, volume = {6}, number = {3}, pages = {162--163}, year = {2019}, doi = {10.7861/fhj.2019-0038}, publisher = {Future Healthcare Journal}, abstract = {While we will all have personal experience of losing, the increasing use of awards has raised concerns that the beneficial effects both of winning and of losing may be diluted. I will explore background concepts of both winning and losing, considering the potential advantages of awards when delivered via a competitive and just structure. Great advantages can come from losing, which are often more significant than those obtained merely through winning. I illustrate this point with my own background and that of the distance learning clinical neurology course that I help run at Queen Square. Finally, I use the example of our course as a way that some challenges currently facing medicine in the matter of neurology numbers can be tackled.}, issn = {2514-6645}, URL = {https://www.rcpjournals.org/content/6/3/162}, eprint = {https://www.rcpjournals.org/content/6/3/162.full.pdf}, journal = {Future Healthcare Journal} }