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Purpose: Communication, teamwork, and conflict navigation among physician colleagues are core competencies for graduate medical trainees. 1 Yet, how these core elements of professional behavior are enacted in practice remains poorly characterized, and interpersonal interactions continue to be a central source of workplace conflict. 2,3 While this threat to an effective learning environment has been described in the nursing literature, 4 physicians’ experience of conflict with other physician colleagues remains poorly characterized. The goal of this study was to gain a more nuanced understanding of interphysician conflict to provide foundational guidance for how training communities can support best practices and curricular innovation regarding communication.