Wellbeing and Burnout in Residency

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Shanu Gupta, University of South Florida; Stacy Higgins, Emory University; Dario Torre, University of Central Florida
• Language: English
• Date: 2022-05-23
• Publisher: SPRINGER
• Publication Version: Final Published Version
• Copyright Statement: © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Society of General Internal Medicine
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11606-022-07663-6
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE
• Volume: 37
• Issue: 9
• Start Page: 2137
• End Page: 2138
• Keywords: Health Care Sciences & Services; General & Internal Medicine; Medicine, General & Internal; Science & Technology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Health Care Management

Abstract

A growing concern in the physician workforce over the last decade, burnout rears its ugly head again, this time peppered with a pandemic and racial and political tensions. In this medical education special issue, several authors have identified factors contributing to burnout, and those associated with wellbeing and, indeed, thriving while in training. Unfortunately, many of the actions we implemented as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic may have actually increased burnout and reduced wellbeing in our learners across the continuum of medical education. Recognizing these lessons now may help prevent the same mistakes and even serve to provide evidence-based alternate strategies to enhance wellbeing and mitigate burnout during our next medical crisis.