Resources

CLINICIAN BURNOUT AND WELLBEING

Resources that I created are indicated with an asterix.

• *Book: Preventing Physician Burnout: Curing the Chaos and Returning Joy to the Practice of Medicine
• *Podcast: MedPEP. Episode 13: Changing the system that destroys careers
• *Blog post: Why I Left Medicine: A Burnt Out Doctor’s Decision to Quit. WBUR CommonHealth; Awarded Will Solimene Award for Excellence in Writing
• *Blog post: Reducing burnout tops the to-do list of health care orgs. Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety.
• *Article: Addressing Physician Burnout: Individual Solutions Versus System and Workplace Fixes. Worcester District Medical Society. Worcester Medicine.
• *Article: Physician Well-Being: A Powerful Tool for Improving the Patient Experience, Physician Executive Journal
• Resource Center: National Academy of Medicine. Knowledge Hub on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience. 
• Comparison of survey tools to measure burnout: Valid and Reliable Survey Instruments to Assess Work-related Dimensions of Well-being. National Academy of Medicine.
• Report: Massachusetts Medical Society, et al. A Crisis in Healthcare: A Call to Action on Physician Burnout. 
• Article: Tait Shanafelt, et al. Changes in Burnout and Satisfaction With Work-Life Integration in Physicians and the General US Working Population Between 2011 and 2017. 
• Article: Tait Shanafelt, et al. Healing the Professional Culture of Medicine. Mayo Clinic Proceedings. 
• Report: National Academy of Medicine. Burnout Among Health Care Professionals: A Call to Explore and Address This Underrecognized Threat to Safe, High-Quality Care. 
• Report: Institute for Healthcare Improvement. IHI Framework for Improving Joy in Work. 
• Module: American Medical Association. Steps Forward module: Organizational Cost of Physician Burnout (includes ROI calculator)
• Blog post: John Noseworthy, et al. Physician Burnout Is A Public Health Crisis: A Message To Our Fellow Health Care CEOs. 2017

CHALLENGES FACING WOMEN PHYSICIANS

• *Report: The Challenges Women Physicians Face: Shifting from Striving to Thriving
• *Blog post: Quieting the Misery of Self Doubt and Imposter Syndrome
• *KevinMD podcast interview: Solving Imposter Syndrome in Physician‪s‬
• *Blog posts on lactation support as an equity issue and on a lactation support program for physicians
• Article: Advancing Gender Equity in Medicine
• National Academy of Medicine report: Gender-Based Differences in Burnout: Issues Faced by Women Physicians
• Article: Gender Differences in Time Spent on Parenting and Domestic Responsibilities by High-Achieving Young Physician-Researchers
• Article: Working Mothers Face Wall Bias: There Are Ways to Push Back

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