Education Pathway
Andrea Dean, MD (she/her/hers)
Assistant Professor
Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children’s Hospital
Houston, Texas, United States
Dana Foradori, MD, M.Ed
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Gal Barak, MD, MEd
Assistant Professor
Pediatric Hospital Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
Burnout is prevalent among pediatric trainees in the Clinical Learning Environment (CLE), where they encounter the demands and stressors inherent in caring for sick children. Although trainee wellbeing is a key focus of the Clinical Learning Environment Review, burnout interventions have not historically targeted the CLE. Frontline educators, who work closely with trainees in the CLE, are well situated to support trainees. However, a multisite needs assessment confirmed that they feel unprepared to identify burnout and appropriately intervene. Moreover, when face-to-face with trainees for feedback, frontline educators often struggle to balance compassion with their responsibility to critique performance, exacerbating known barriers to honest assessment and resulting in missed opportunities for trainee growth.
This established workshop enhances frontline educators’ conceptualization of trainee burnout and how to address it in the CLE. Using reflection, discussion, and interactive activities to emphasize wellness literature and solidify concepts, participants will learn to identify burnout and understand its impact on learner performance. We will discuss barriers to assessment, especially when burnout is present, and introduce the novel GetINBurnOUT feedback method as a tool to mitigate these challenges. Using the Maslach Burnout Inventory and principles of high-quality feedback as a framework, this method empowers educators to address burnout using a brief, evidence-guided intervention while still delivering honest and accurate feedback. It is suitable for use with trainees in the CLE with whom frontline educators have time-limited relationships. The workshop includes a video demonstration of the GetINBurnOUT method, and participants will practice this approach using case vignettes.