A Workshop to Reflect on Personal Resilience in Emergency Medicine Residents: Applying the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, Visual Explorer, and the Critical Incident Questionnaire to Support Introspection
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Robin Naples; Dimitrios Papanagnou; Mansoor Siddiqui; Anthony Sielicki; Alanna O'Connell
- Source
- Cureus
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject
education
Population
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Burnout
wellness
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Resilience (network)
resilience
emergency medicine resident
media_common
education.field_of_study
business.industry
General Engineering
resident resilience
Miscellaneous
Medical Education
resident wellness
Scale (social sciences)
Emergency medicine
Emergency Medicine
Introspection
Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
- Language
- ISSN
- 2168-8184
Burnout among emergency medicine (EM) residents is gaining increasing attention. The authors designed a workshop to assess EM residents’ resilience using a validated scale to prompt personal reflection. The workshop then shifted to peer-to-peer conversations and sharing using images from Visual Explorer (VE) to further reflect on resilience. Overall, resident resilience scores were below those of the US general population, with post-graduate year (PGY)-2 year residents having the lowest scores. The workshop was well received by residents; data from the Critical Incident Questionnaire (CIQ) suggested that residents felt engaged during discussion of the images. Further study is needed to assess the correlation between resilience scores and burnout.