Collegiality and career success: How one’s medical school learning environment can affect one’s sense of personal and professional fulfillment decades after graduation

Success in one’s career and life are subjectively determined. However, the presence or absence of regrets are good indicia of one’s sense of fulfillment. In the context of professional education, “learning environment” is a key predictor of one’s future sense of fulfillment. Collegiality, mutual support, and decency towards one’s classmates were considered by the author in this small-scale study to be important predictors of one’s later success in life and medical practice