PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Tim Young TI - Not winning is good for you AID - 10.7861/fhj.2019-0038 DP - 2019 Oct 01 TA - Future Healthcare Journal PG - 162--163 VI - 6 IP - 3 4099 - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/6/3/162.short 4100 - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/6/3/162.full SO - Future Healthc J2019 Oct 01; 6 AB - 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.