Hospitals are teaching residents to practice more resilience to subdue physician burnout, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Here are five key thoughts:
1. The goal involves strengthening physicians to routinely handle critically ill and dying patients as well as their families.
2. Mattel Children's Hospital UCLA pediatrics residents undergo four months of resilience training, which resembles a course for active duty military personnel and their families.
3. The program, Families Overcoming Under Stress, offers residents tools to handle their emotions in difficult circumstances. Some tips include looking for the silver lining in a hard situation as well as leaving the room to calm down and returning later if a distraught family confronts them.
4. New York City-based Mount Sinai West hosts monthly breakfasts, which focus on recent challenging medical events and thoughts on how to handle them.
5. These monthly sessions allow physicians to share their anguish and connect with others feeling the exact same emotions, so no one is suffering alone.