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Top 10 Culture Change Interventions to Reduce Burnout and Improve Physician Well-being

Interventions you and your colleagues can use in your practice to reduce burnout and promote a culture of well-being.

  1. Limit work hours and offer flexible work arrangements.

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  1. Invest in leadership development.
  • Shanafelt T, Gorringe G, Menaker R, et al. Mayo Clin Proc 2015;90(4):432-440. doi: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2015.01.012.
  1. Create a 鈥淲ellness Committee.鈥 Identify a 鈥淲ellness Champion and create a 鈥淲ellness Toolbox鈥 that includes ingredients for changing residency culture to be in support of wellness, as opposed to simply 鈥減reventing burnout.鈥
  • Eckleberry-Hunt J, Van Dyke A, Lick D, Tucciarone J. J Grad Med Ed 2009;1(2):225-30.doi: 10.4300/JGME-D-09-00026.1.
  1. Establish wellness as a quality indicator for the practice. Distribute an annual wellness survey and use the results to create interventions to address burnout and enhance well-being.
  • Preventing Physician Burnout 鈥 STEPS Forward. STEPSforward.org
  1. Conduct facilitated physician discussion groups incorporating elements of mindfulness, reflection, shared experience, and small-group learning.  Offer humanistic teaching, role modeling and narrative reflection combined with skills training using experiential learning techniques.
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  1. Establish a culture (time, space, training) in which teamwork and relationships are prioritized: relationships with patients and relationships with peers and colleagues.
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  1. Provide relationship-centered communications skills training for physicians.
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  1. Conduct workflow and Qi projects aimed at addressing clinician concerns.
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  1. Implement the 鈥淟isten-Act-Develop鈥 model which is based on organizational psychology and social science, with integration from institutional efforts related to quality improvement, safety culture, burnout- engagement and leadership development.
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  1. Proactively work to reduce the stigma associated with mental illness to encourage clinicians to seek help when they need it.
  • Kishore S, Dandurand DE, Mathew A, Rothenberger D. Breaking the Culture of Silence on Physician Suicide. National Academy of Medicine.

Additional Research

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  • Shanafelt T, Goh J, Sinsky C. JAMA Intern Med. 2017. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.4340.