Background: Healthcare organizations are increasingly seeking to improve physician well-being to combat rates of physician burnout. The Stanford Wellness Framework details a multi-pronged solution which includes three domains: personal resilience, culture of wellness, and efficiency of practice. Enhanced communication skills can improve patient-provider relationships and foster personal resilience, while improving efficiency in practice and contributing […]

Background: Calls to action to address well-being recommend addressing systems drivers and improving the culture of medicine, in addition to devoting attention to individual self-care. In 2018, an internal medicine residency well-being elective was developed to teach residents about systems and cultural drivers of well-being in residency, and to facilitate deep exploration through individual systems […]