This study examines whether pre-scheduled protected sleep periods during interns' overnight calls improves end-of-rotation burnout, depression, and empathy scores....
Resource topic: Organizational Strategies
Impact of Protected Sleep Period for Internal Medicine Interns on Overnight Call on Depression, Burnout, and Empathy
Peer-Reviewed Literature
Work Stress Associated Cool Down Reactions Among Nurses and Hospital Physicians and Their Relation to Burnout Symptoms
Published in BMC Health Services Research, B眉ssing's paper develops a 'Cool Down Index' as an operationalized variable for both perception of emotional exhaustion...
Peer-Reviewed Literature
What Will it Take for Physicians to Practice Mindfully?: Promoting Quality of Care, Quality of Caring, Resilience, and Well-Being
Mindful clinical practice, as described in a chapter of The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Mindfulness, is associated with mindful attitudes, such as adopting multiple...
Book
Teaching, Learning, and the Quest for Well-Being: Psychiatrists as Physician-Educators
With a peculiar vision, psychiatrists focus on what makes us human, what makes us suffer, and what makes us thrive; it is this vision that appears to help...
Article
A Systematic Review of Interventions to Foster Physician Resilience
The following review synthesizes and evaluates literature describing interventions to improve resilience among physicians in order to provide an outline of types...
Peer-Reviewed Literature
Stress Management and Resilience Training Among Department of Medicine Faculty: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial
The following study assesses the effect of a Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) program for increasing resiliency and quality of life and decreasing...
Peer-Reviewed Literature
Shell-shocked. Looking Out for the Well-Being of Physicians–Particularly in this Malpractice Environment–is the Mark of a Professional Medical Practice Manager
The following discusses the unwritten role of the practice administrator in supporting the doctor during malpractice lawsuits. To effectively run an organization,...
Article
Running on Empty: a Review of Nutrition and Physicians’ Well-Being
In this review, Hamidi et al. summarise the current evidence on the potential effects of nutrition and hydration on physicians' occupational well-being and...
Peer-Reviewed Literature
The Role of Medical Culture in the Journey to Resilience
The following article highlights retention threats of electronic medical records, external documentation required for oversight and billing, and divide between...
Article
Risk and Resilience Factors Associated with Resident Burnout
Published in Academic Psychiatry, the following study investigates hypothesized risk and resilience factors of burnout in first year medicine and psychiatry...
Peer-Reviewed Literature
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