Foster Well-being Throughout the Career Trajectory: A Developmental Model of Physician Resilience Training

When Illness and Loss Hit Close to Home—Do Health Care Providers Learn How to Cope?

“…Importantly, these interventions may be delivered longitudinally in a repeated and varied fashion from undergraduate to continuing education to address the career-long demands of health care that potentially affect how HCPs cope with personal illness experience. 48…”

Adaptive leadership of doctors during COVID-19

“…The Physician Leadership Competency Framework (Antony, 2021), reflects that adaptive leaders evolve their responses to changing contexts and resolve complexities as they arise by applying locally relevant solutions through trial and error and innovation rather than following broad prescriptions (Glover, 2002; Khan et al , 2018). Scholars have suggested the implementation of an adaptive leadership framework in the curriculum to teach medical students skills such as personal mastery, communication, collaboration, system thinking, self-awareness and adaptive thinking, along with resilience training (; Cordova et al , 2020; Eubank et al , 2012).…”

From surviving to thriving: Strategies to cultivate individual and organizational resilience in the health care workforce.

“…Resilience, or the ability of an individual to adapt in the face of significant adversity, threat, or trauma, has been identified as a strategy to mitigate the triumvirate of burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral distress (Rakesh et al, 2017). Once viewed as an innate personality trait, there has been an increased focus on the cultivation of resilience among health care providers, with attention to evolving educational models depending on the career stage of the provider (Cordova et al, 2020) and interventions for interprofessional health care workers (Kunzler et al, 2020). Strategies to develop the “7Cs” of individual resilience, which were initially applied to children and adolescents, have begun to be applied to physicians (Mahmoud & Rothenberger, 2019), and are relevant for any member of the health care team The 7C’s represent c ontrol, c ompetence, c onfidence, c onnection, c haracter, c ontribution, and c oping; efforts to build resilience frequently focus on targeting one or more of these domains, with attention to promoting individual wellness behaviors (e.g., mindfulness, exercise, healthy eating).…”

“…For our members working in higher education and academic medicine, while teaching individual resilience strategies is not sufficient, it is an opportunity to actively acknowledge the stress the health care workforce faces, encourage self-care, and destigmatize the need for psychological support in the face of burnout, compassion fatigue, and moral distress. Educators are referred to Cordova et al (2020) for recommendations for resilience training across the career trajectory, focused on tailoring the training of intrapersonal, interpersonal, and systems and sustainability skills (e.g., self-care, managing conflict, and advocacy, respectively)—with an attention to issues of diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout—according to one’s developmental stage.…”