Solving Resident Burnout Podcast

Do Wellness Activities Have to Be Mandatory? There *is* another way.


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Al'ai Alvarez, MD, FACEP, FAAEM is an assistant clinical professor in Emergency Medicine and an assistant program director in the Stanford Emergency Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Alvarez focuses on the interdependence of residency wellbeing with performance improvement in the patient experience, quality, and patient safety. Dr. Alvarez is also the co-chair of the Stanford WellMD's Physician Wellness Forum and is one of the peer supporters for WellMD's Physician Resource Network (PRN) Support for faculty and trainees. Dr. Alvarez has given several grand rounds and national conference lectures and workshops on relevant topics in gratitude and compassion, physician wellbeing, burnout, the imposter syndrome, as well as increasing leadership capacity and mentorship to enhance diversity and inclusion. Dr. Alvarez works on recruitment in faculty, graduate, and undergraduate medical education with a special interest in finding ways to increase diversity and inclusion in medicine.

In this episode we cover the following:

  • A case-study about an asynchronous wellness activity (this means wellness which is not mandatory and from 4-6pm)
  • Eliciting feedback from residents
  • Opening up, sharing, and learning from clinical mistakes
  • As a takeaway, Dr. Alvarez reminds us to practice self-compassion.

    • To connect with Dr. Alvarez please reach out to him on Twitter @alvarezzzy

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      Solving Resident Burnout PodcastBy Daniel S Orlovich

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