Cultivating Resilience: Personally and for Our Profession

Reducing Burnout and Reinforcing Resilience: Answering the Call for Rigorous Research

“…My talk focused on resilience and how personal, institutional, and organizational efforts can and should address the threat of burnout; the impact of burnout on our profession; and the potential consequences of burnout on the health of providers and of our patients and the families for whom we care. 1 The importance of defining and designing interventions to address clinician well-being led to the creation of the Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience 2 by the National Academy of Medicine. This collaborative is a network of over 60 organizations that are collectively working to identify evidence-based strategies to address burnout and promote individual and systemslevel interventions to increase provider engagement and partnership in enhancing care delivery.…”