Caring for the Caregivers: Reducing Stress & Burnout

The live conference is designed to help physicians, medical students, residents, and fellows develop and implement strategies to improve their own health and well-being, thereby enhancing patient care. The stress of medical practice and the burnout that physicians experience continues to gain momentum. It is important to develop effective approaches within physician practices and within the overall healthcare system to counteract those trends. You will learn about ways to combat stress and burn-out. Didactic discussions on peer support, resiliency, mindfulness and compassionate care, including examples already in practice in institutions throughout Massachusetts, will be detailed. The program will culminate in dynamic breakout sessions focused on identifying and overcoming specific barriers that impede physicians from becoming champions of change. Each group will share its conclusions with invited health care leaders, in order to foster health-promoting culture changes as a partnership between leadership and the physician workforce.