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Surgery
January 2025
Department of Health Professions Education, MGH Institute for Health Professions Education, Boston, MA; Department of Surgery, Baylor Scott & White Health, Temple, TX. Electronic address: https://twitter.com/_baaw_.
Background: Gossip, defined by social scientists as "evaluative talk about an absent third party," is anecdotally pervasive yet poorly understood in surgical residency programs. Gossip is known to have both positive and negative impacts. This study sought to deconstruct the role of gossip in surgical residency and evaluate its impact through the lens of surgical residents.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGlob Adv Integr Med Health
November 2024
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Background: The well-being of healthcare teams is an important consideration when seeking to improve patient experience and quality of care. Prior studies have found that changes to working conditions are most effective in improving clinician well-being. Integrative Group Medical Visits (IGMVs) modify working conditions in ways that have potential to improve clinician experience.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Environ Res Public Health
August 2024
Barry and Judy Silverman College of Pharmacy, Nova Southeastern University, San Juan, PR 00926, USA.
While pandemics have long been a topic of discussion in public health, COVID-19 placed healthcare leaders in a completely new and challenging situation. This qualitative study sought to understand the personal experiences of healthcare professionals in leadership roles at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sixteen in-depth interviews were conducted and recorded via Zoom.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Contin Educ Health Prof
September 2024
Dr. Gardiner: Director of Primary Care Implementation Research at Cambridge Health Alliance, Cambridge, MA, and Associate Professor at University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA. Dr. Pérez-Aranda: Lecturer at Autonomous University of Barcelona, Department of Clinical and Health Psychology, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain. Ms. Bell: Director of Program Development at Center for Mindful Self-Compassion, San Diego, CA. Dr. Clark: Chief Wellness Officer of Southern California Permanente Medical Group, Pasadena, CA. Dr. Schuman-Olivier: Associate Professor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA. Dr. Lin: Clinical professor at the School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Introduction: Physician burnout is a common problem for which self-compassion training has shown positive effects. In this program evaluation, we explore the effects of a synchronous online continuing medical education program (Self-Compassion for Healthcare Communities, SCHC) to improve physician burnout and related outcomes.
Methods: The SCHC program was delivered online via Zoom and consisted of six 1-hour weekly sessions to enhance self-compassion and well-being.
Am J Nurs
September 2024
Edessa Cadiz is a clinical nurse at University of California (UC) San Diego Health in La Jolla, where Jessica Bejar is the clinical nursing care manager. Karyn Buxman is the founder of HumorLab LLC in Concord, CA. Magda Angel is the lead resource nurse at UC San Diego Health in Vista. Carin Resseguie is a clinical nurse educator at UC San Diego Health in San Diego, where Carolyn Wilder is a clinical nurse, Lilian Chan is a nurse informaticist, and Jaclyn Russe is the organ procurement coordinator. Judy Davidson is a nurse scientist at the UC San Diego School of Medicine in La Jolla. Contact author: Edessa Cadiz, . The authors have disclosed no potential conflicts of interest, financial or otherwise.
Background: The nursing work environment is often stressful and can lead to burnout. The use of humor may help nurses adapt and cope. Although most would agree that, in general, humor can help build camaraderie and ease tense situations, little is known about how nurses use humor in their professional lives.
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