Graduate medical education-led continuous assessment of burnout and learning environments to improve residents' wellbeing.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Promoting residents' wellbeing and decreasing burnout is a focus of Graduate Medical Education (GME). A supportive clinical learning environment is required to optimize residents' wellness and learning.

Objective

To determine if longitudinal assessments of burnout and learning environment as perceived by residents combined with applying continuous quality Model for Improvement and serial Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) cycles to test interventions would improve residents' burnout.

Methods

From November 2017 to January 2020, 271 GME residents in internal medicine, general surgery, psychiatry, emergency medicine, family medicine and obstetrics and gynecology, were assessed over five cycles by Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI), and by clinical learning environment f

SUBMITTER: Ogunyemi D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9016951 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature