Giving Literal Thanks: An ACGME-Sponsored Initiative to Bring Residents Back to the Bedside.

ABSTRACT: Background Resident burnout is at an all-time high. In response, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) developed the Back to Bedside grant for resident-led burnout interventions that increase the time residents spend with patients. Objective We designed a resident-patient reading intervention, Giving Literal Thanks (GLT), intended to increase meaningful time residents spend with patients and thereby decrease burnout. Methods All 65 pediatric residents rotating through our academic hospital's inpatient units from Fall 2019 through Fall 2021 were invited to read and gift books to their patients. We studied our intervention's relationship to resident burnout using a convergent mixed-methods design, including anonymous, unlinked pre-, peri-, and

SUBMITTER: Diacovo N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10686639 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature