Runyan, ChristineSavageau, Judith A.Potts, Stacy EWeinreb, Linda F.2022-08-232022-08-232016-06-082016-11-30<p>Med Educ Online. 2016 Jun 8;21:30648. doi: 10.3402/meo.v21.30648. eCollection 2016. <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/meo.v21.30648">Link to article on publisher's website</a></p>1087-2981 (Linking)10.3402/meo.v21.3064827282276https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14038/40102BACKGROUND: Up to 60% of practicing physicians report symptoms of burnout, which often peak during residency. Residency is also a relevant time for habits of self-care and resiliency to be emphasized. A growing literature underscores the importance of this; however, evidence about effective burnout prevention curriculum during residency remains limited. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this project is to evaluate the impact of a new, 1-month wellness curriculum for 12 second-year family medicine residents on burnout, empathy, stress, and self-compassion. METHODS: The pilot program, introduced during a new rotation emphasizing competencies around leadership, focused on teaching skills to cultivate mindfulness and self-compassion in order to enhance empathy and reduce stress. Pre-assessments and 3-month follow-up assessments on measures of burnout, empathy, self-compassion, and perceived stress were collected to evaluate the impact of the curriculum. It was hypothesized that this curriculum would enhance empathy and self-compassion as well as reduce stress and burnout among family medicine residents. RESULTS: Descriptive statistics revealed positive trends on the mean scores of all the measures, particularly the Mindfulness Scale of the Self-Compassion Inventory and the Jefferson Empathy Scale. However, the small sample size and lack of sufficient power to detect meaningful differences limited the use of inferential statistics. CONCLUSIONS: This feasibility study demonstrates how a residency wellness curriculum can be developed, implemented, and evaluated with promising results, including high participant satisfaction.en-US© 2016 Christine Runyan et al.http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/burnout preventionphysician wellnessresidency educationFamily MedicineMedical EducationJournal Articlehttps://escholarship.umassmed.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3908&amp;context=oapubs&amp;unstamped=1https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/oapubs/29039425541oapubs/2903