Women Residents Mixer: Caring For Others, Caring For Ourselves

March 1, 2018

In collaboration with the Office of Diversity and Inclusion, the NYP Women Physicians Initiative led by Dr. Laura Forese, promotes support and provides valuable resources to assist our female attendings, faculty, and residents through educational lectures in a relaxed atmosphere. These insightful speakers discuss how to create a positive and proactive culture of support for our fellow colleagues, trainees and ourselves. On March 1, 2018, Dr. Janna Gordon-Elliott and Dr. Lyuba Konopasek led an informative and interactive panel discussion addressing stress and burnout and their consequences that affect women throughout their medical careers. During the interactive discussion, participants were paired-up into groups to focus on various issues of concern including: (1) drivers of burnout, (2) work and learning environment stressors, (3), vulnerabilities in women physicians, and (4) identifying risk factors. Additional discussions focused on the importance of supervisors and physicians involved in the training of residents and how to assist them in the development of strategies in self-care, resilience and professionalism for a positive and more productive experience within our institution and beyond.

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