Mindfulness in Medicine @UMKC

Learning Objectives for Flourishing and Resilience:

1. Describe organizational and individual factors that affect burnout and resilience

2. Analyze how organizational change and individual practices in the workplace can decrease burnout and improve well-being

3. Develop skills to help health professionals relate in a healthier way to the inherent stresses within medical work

4. Practice activities that can build awareness and resilience in healthcare

5. Commit to incorporating one of the mindful practices from the workshop into everyday work and life.

Suggested Readings and Materials to review before this session:  Flourishing and Resilience

“A Blessing for One Who Is Exhausted” by John O’Donohue from Blessings [http://www.awakin.org/read/view.php?tid=698]

“Beyond the bend in the road” by Fernando Pessoa from Uncollected Poems, 1914 [http://pioneerproductions.blogspot.com/2011/04/beyond-bend-in-road.html]

For further information:

• Epstein R, Krasner M. “Physician Resilience.” Acad Med 2013.

• Epstein RM (2017). “Healing the Healer.” In Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness, and Humanity (pp. 157-175). New York, NY: Scribner.

• Epstein RM, Privitera MR. “Finding our way out of burnout.” JCO Oncology Practice July 2021; Practice 17(7): 375-377. Accession Number: 34152836 PMID: 34152836 doi: 10.1200/OP.21.00233.

• Harvey SB, Epstein RM, Glozier N, Petrie K, Strudwick J, Gayed A, Dean K, Henderson M. “Mental illness and suicide among physicians.” Lancet. 2021;398(10303):920-30.

• Krogh E; Epstein R; Langer ÁI; Steinebach C. "Clinical resilience: toward a unified definition." International Journal for Quality in Health Care: Journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care. 2023; Epub 2023 May 02.

• Shanafelt TD. “Physician well-being 2.0: Where are we and where are we going?” Mayo Clin Proc. 2021;96(10):2682-93.

• Shanafelt T, Trockel M, Ripp J, Murphy ML, Sandborg C, Bohman B. “Building a program on well-being: key design considerations to meet the unique needs of each organization.” Acad Med. 2019;94(2):156-61.

• The Stanford Wellness Framework (2016) https://wellmd.stanford.edu/about.html

• West CP, Dyrbye LN, Erwin PJ, Shanafelt TD. “Interventions to prevent and reduce physician burnout: a systematic review and meta-analysis.” Lancet. 2016;388(10057):2272-81.