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01-02-2020 | Burnout Syndrome | Letter to the Editor

Wellness and Work: Mixed Messages in Residency Training

Author: Nicholas D. Lawson, MD

Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 2/2020

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I commend Dr. Meeks and colleagues¹ for acknowledging the lack of evidence supporting the efficacy of individually based approaches to addressing resident wellness and well-being (e.g., mindfulness, resilience training). I also commend the authors for recognizing that current strategies for targeting the “burnout epidemic” in residency remain stubbornly focused on the individual to the exclusion of systematic factors.^{1, 2} However, I think Dr. Meeks and her colleagues are still too invested in individual, medical approaches to resident wellness and well-being that inadvertently stigmatize vulnerable groups. …

Meeks LM, Ramsey J, Lyons M, Spencer AL, Lee WW. Wellness and work: mixed messages in residency training. J Gen Intern Med. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-04952-5. Published March 28, 2019. Accessed April 3, 2019CrossRef

Lawson ND, Kalet AL. How is “stigma” conceived within the biomedical literature on trainee wellness? A directed content analysis. MedEdPublish. 2019. https://doi.org/10.15694/mep.2019.000032.1. Published February 25, 2019. Accessed April 3, 2019.

Yuan CM. Perfect compliance: the 2018 Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education well-being survey. Ann Intern Med. 2019;170(4): 257–8.CrossRef

Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. ACGME Common Program Requirements. https://www.acgme.org/Portals/0/PFAssets/ProgramRequirements/CPRs_2017-07-01.pdf Published July 1, 2017. Accessed April 3, 2019.

Meeks LM, Jain NR, Herzer K. In Reply to Lawson et al. Acad Med. 2019;94(1):8–9.CrossRef

Title: Wellness and Work: Mixed Messages in Residency Training
Author: Nicholas D. Lawson, MD
Publication date: 01-02-2020
Publisher: Springer US
Keyword: Burnout Syndrome
Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine / Issue 2/2020
Print ISSN: 0884-8734
Electronic ISSN: 1525-1497
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-019-05018-2

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