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Dr Victoria Brazil discusses the Dunning-Kruger Effect, Imposter Syndrome and quality improvement. Vic starts the podcast reminiscing about her initial days as a resuscitationist. She talks about the two psychological phenomena noticed in people working in pre-hospital care. The Dunning-Kruger effect, where people tend to think they are better at a job than they are, and imposter syndrome, where people tend to think they are worse than they are at doing a particular job. People's perception of their performance can impact their chances of improvement. She suggests scientific methods to reduce this gap in perception. Resuscitation quality improvement (RQI) is a machine-based assessment method to improve the quality of chest compressions that helps doctors and nurses assess and improve their chest compression skills. An example is a person trying to intubate a patient while wearing a camera. This highlights how different his perception is of what he is doing. According to Vic, an important tool to improveme