Promoting Resiliency and Wellness Among Physician Residents

Featuring chapters written by practicing medical professionals and experts in the discipline, Promoting Resiliency and Wellness Among Physician Residents is designed to help current and future residents integrate facets of resilience and wellness in their lives to help them succeed in their medical training. The text emphasizes how work and family balance, self-care, and healthy eating, among other key strategies, can improve residents' quality of life during their training and lay the groundwork for them to become better doctors.

Part I provides readers with a glimpse into the lives of physician residents. The chapters discuss challenges related to maintaining morale during residency, as well as encountering stress, burnout, and depression. Part II focuses on resilience, with chapters that examine the biological underpinnings of resilience, professional identity formation, emotional intelligence, and more. In the final part, residents learn about the importance of social support, how to foster personal well-being, and the financial benefits associated with physician wellness.

Promoting Resiliency and Wellness Among Physician Residents is a critical resource for physician residents and other medical professionals who are interested in improving medical training programs.

Mohsen Shabahang, M.D., Ph.D. is the chair of the Geisinger Surgery Institute. He has served as a general residency program director since 2005 and has trained hundreds of surgical learners.

Marie Hunsinger, R.N., B.S.H.S. is a registered nurse with a degree in human services. She has over 40 years of nursing experience and serves as the research coordinator for the Geisinger Surgery Institute.

Brandon Lang earned his Ph.D. in sociology at North Carolina State University. He is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminal Justice at Bloomsbury University. Dr. Lang's areas of interest include the sociology of sports, and community, public, and environmental sociology. His writing has appeared in numerous journals including Culture and Agriculture, Technology in Society, and Journal of Environmental Education. Dr. Lang is a member of the International Sociology of Sport Association and the Eastern Sociological Society.