Caring for Caregivers to Be: A Comprehensive Approach to Developing Well-being Programs for the Health Care Learner

Caring for Caregivers to Be provides evidence-based insights and solutions to reduce burnout and improve well-being among medical learners, particularly students and graduate medical trainees. It provides a scoping review of the research related to the well-being of the health care learner and offers a suite of current and emerging tools and strategies believed to reduce medical burnout and foster resilience. Chapters identify the major drivers of both burnout and flourishing and explore the consequences of sub-optimal well-being for performance and patient care. The volume ends with practical considerations that medical education leaders can use for solutions-based well-being program development and tips for medical learners seeking to improve their own well-being within a professional environment.

Caring for Caregivers to Be is the comprehensive guide to promoting the development of a resilient and professionally fulfilled physician workforce.

Jonathan Ripp, MD, MPH, is Professor of Medicine, Medical Education, and Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City, where he is also Chief Wellness Officer and Dean for Well-Being and Resilience. Dr. Ripp oversees efforts to assess and provide direction for system- and individual-level interventions designed to improve well-being for all students, residents, fellows, faculty, and other health professionals in the Mount Sinai Health System. He is also Co-Founder and Co-Director of CHARM, the Collaborative for Healing and Renewal in Medicine, a professional network for well-being leaders. Dr. Ripp's primary research interest is in physician burnout and well-being, for which he has received grant support and has published and lectured widely.

Larissa R. Thomas is Professor of Medicine and the Director of Well-Being for Graduate Medical Education at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also a faculty hospitalist at Zuckerberg Francisco General Hospital and a member of the UCSF Academy of Medical Educators, for which she is the Endowed Chair for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Dr. Thomas is a member of the steering committee and Director of the GME Well-Being Leaders Network for the Collaborative for Healing and Renewal in Medicine (CHARM), a national working group to establish best practice recommendations and consensus guidelines for physician well-being. Her interests include medical education and development of physician well-being initiatives, and she has received several grants to explore organizational innovations to improve well-being.

Dennis S. Charney, MD, is Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Dean
of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and President for Academic Affairs for the Mount Sinai Health System.