Resident Wellness Webinar: Preventing Surgeon Burnout

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Resident Wellness Webinar: Preventing Surgeon Burnout

Part 3 of the wellness webinar series will focus on ways to prevent burnout among surgeons. Burnout is psychological exhaustion that progresses from emotional exhaustion to depersonalization of others to eventually the loss of personal achievement and the desire to leave medicine. Residents in surgery and emergency medicine are at a greater risk for burnout. This 60-minute webinar will review what burnout is, the personal risks involved and solutions to mitigate burnout.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this program, participants should be able to:

Define burnout and the symptoms of burnout.
Review the personal risks of burnout.
Discuss coping skills and how to mitigate burnout.

This webinar is complimentary for AAOMS Members only and is not eligible for CE credit.

Dean White, DDS, MS

Dean White, DDS, MS, has been involved in medical staff governance his entire career. He has served on several medical staff committees and as Chief of the medical staff in 1999 and 2000 at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital HEB in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. He also served on the Board of Trustees for that hospital for six years and part-time as Medical Staff Advisor from 2002 to 2011. He is a Past President of ABOMS and received his DDS, OMS training and MS from the University of Texas Dental Branch at Houston.