title: Promoting resiliency for interprofessional faculty and senior medical students: Outcomes of a workshop using mind-body medicine and interactive reflective writing.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Health care professions faculty/practitioners/students are at risk for stress and burnout, impacting well-being, and optimal patient care.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  We conducted a unique intervention: an interprofessional, experiential, skills-based workshop (IESW) combining two approaches: mind-body medicine skills and interactive reflective writing (RW) fostering self-awareness, self-discovery, reflection, and meaning-making, potentially preventing/attenuating burnout and promoting resiliency.
  
  
  METHODS
  Medical and nursing faculty and senior medical students (N = 16) participated in a 2-hour workshop and completed (1) Professional Quality of Life measure (ProQOL) and (2) a questionnaire evaluating understanding of professional burnout and resiliency and perceived being prepared to apply workshop techniques. Thematic analyses of anonymized RWs exploring meaningful clinical or teaching experiences were conducted.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Participants reported better understanding of professional burnout/resiliency and felt better prepared to use meditation and RW as coping tools. RW themes identified experiencing/grappling with a spectrum of emotions (positive and negative) as well as challenge and triumph within clinical and teaching experiences as professionally meaningful.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Positive outcomes were obtained within a synergistic resiliency skills building exercise. Successful implementation of this IESW provides good rationale for studying impact of this intervention over a longer period of time, especially in populations with high rates of stress and burnout.
authors.affiliation: a Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University , Providence , RI , USA ;
authors.forename: Hedy S
authors.initials: HS
authors.lastname: Wald
authors.affiliation: b Georgetown University Medical Center , Washington , DC , USA ;
authors.forename: Aviad
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Haramati
authors.affiliation: c Department of Public Health , Ben-Gurion University ; Beer-Sheva , Israel ;
authors.forename: Yaacov G
authors.initials: YG
authors.lastname: Bachner
authors.affiliation: d Moshe Prywes Center for Medical Education, Ben-Gurion University , Beer-Sheva , Israel.
authors.forename: Jacob
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Urkin
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002055:Burnout, Professional / Q000517:prevention & control; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D005181:Faculty, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D026441:Mind-Body Therapies / Q000193:education*; D013337:Students, Medical / Q000523:psychology; D013850:Thinking; D014956:Writing