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Does the competitive nature of medical school and medical students hold you back? Is there a way to use it to your advantage? Medical training, it seems, begins and ends with competition. All the way from applying to med school to applying to residency, medical students are seemingly pitted against one another. But how can that competitive spirit be tapped for learning in a healthy way? There are a number of people working on this now, generally using games for learning. Earlier this year, we spoke with a group of medical students who were investigating the use of competitive simulation at their own institution.