Lessons Learned: Beauty from Burnout

This session will discuss valuable lessons learned from physician burnout. It will define burnout, discuss statistics, and encourage change in our healthcare system. It will present innovative solutions, along with guidelines to conquer personal burnout. It will address important topics needed for students, residents, and fellows to prevent burnout. It will show how patient education can play a major role in conquering burnout. It will present useful information to our administrators, directors, and leaders to combat burnout. Finally, we will discuss a call to action and how you can save lives and ultimately change the system.

Objectives:

1. Identify common myths in burnout, and why a change of mindset is needed
2. Discover simple steps to conquer personal burnout
3. List practical training tactics for students, residents and fellows
4. Learn how proper patient education can decrease burnout
5. List new solutions for administrators, leaders, and directors to combat burnout and why it is important
6. Identify how you can save lives and positively change the system

Statement of Accreditation
The Texas Osteopathic Medical Association (TOMA) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians. TOMA designates is program for a maximum of 1 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report CME credits commensurate with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.

Grievance Policy
All grievances may be directed to TOMA's Executive Director at toma@txosteo.org. All grievances will receive an initial response within 30 days of receipt.  If the participant does not receive a satisfactory response, they can submit a complaint to the Bureau of Osteopathic Education of the AOA at 142 East Ontario Street, Chicago, IL 60611.