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Tragedy sparks program to create work-life balance for medical residents

Preventing physician burnout can save lives. The Balance in Life program for medical residents supports and promotes physical, psychological, social and professional well-being. They learn tools to navigate life as a surgeon.

Resident Wellness
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More residents building families during training

Becoming a doctor and a parent at the same time is a strain for many medical residents. Study looks at how intense medical training, limited parental leave and shrinking workforce make starting a family even more difficult.

Resident Wellness
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Keys to promote empathy, reduce burnout in medical residency

An interview with Dr. Dhruv Khullar, a contributor to the New York Times Well blog, provides key insights into how medical residents can maintain empathy and compassion while reducing burnout and exhaustion.

Resident Wellness
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The physician's essential art of balancing emotion and logic

Toggling between the rational and emotional sides of a physician’s minds is key to delivering patient care. How do you train the mind to find a balance between these two states? One resident physician discusses how he learned to toggle.

Resident Wellness
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Burnout in medical residents: Unearthing the bigger picture

Medicine needs to look beyond work and learning environments when seeking causes of burnout in medical residents. Socio-economic setting, moral-ethical factors and personal characteristics also play a role.

Resident Wellness
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Depression in medical residents: Rethinking training to aid wellness

A study shows one-third of medical residents suffer from depression or depressive symptoms. It’s time to take a look at the fundamental structure and function of the residency training as it relates to depression in residents.

Resident Wellness
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Preventing burnout in residency programs: Mayo Clinic's unique approach

The Mayo Clinic employs a program to reduce stress and prevent burnout in medical residents through art and meditation. Award-winning program illustrates that physicians don’t just care for patients, they have to care for themselves.

Improve GME
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Medical residents ward off physician burnout with peer network

Peer networks created during medical residency programs fight loneliness. Social ties linked to lower rates of physician burnout. Three questions measure sense of connection to other residents.

Resident Wellness
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Preventing burnout in medical residents and fellows: 6 keys for wellness

Promoting wellness in physician trainees is key to preventing burnout. Medical residents and fellows can learn 6 areas to focus on to develop a program to foster wellness and mental resiliency.

Resident Wellness