Preventing Clinician Burnout

Course overview

The purpose of this course is to educate physicians about the prevalence of physician dissatisfaction and emotional distress, ways of measuring and quantifying that dissatisfaction and distress (e.g., using indicators such as burnout, depression, stress, anxiety, or suicidal ideation), as well as pros and cons of using these different indicators. The course will also cover factors that increase risk for burnout, and factors that can mitigate or reduce that risk. The course reviews the multi-factorial nature of burnout, examining contributory causes at the level of individual physicians, the organizations in which they work, and at higher systems levels, such as the ways that technology can either exacerbate, or reduce, the experience of burnout.