Publications by authors named "Megan Calzia"
Background: Primary care clinicians do not adhere to national and international guidelines recommending pulmonary function testing (PFTs) in patients with suspected asthma. Little is known about why that occurs. Our objective was to assess clinician focused barriers to ordering PFTs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDoes teaching Optimism lower Burnout in residency training- a pilot study.
J Community Hosp Intern Med Perspect
June 2021
Article Synopsis
- Residents face frequent burnout, and while various interventions exist, their effectiveness has varied; this study suggests that promoting optimism could help mitigate burnout levels.
- The study involved an optimism improvement program with 36 Internal Medicine residents, utilizing pre- and post-curriculum surveys to measure changes in optimism, happiness, and burnout over three one-hour sessions from November 2019 to April 2020.
- Results showed that residents with lower optimism had higher burnout, and although the post-intervention measures indicated improvements in optimism, happiness, and burnout levels, these changes did not reach statistical significance, suggesting further research is needed to evaluate the impact of optimism training in residency programs.