Residency Training: Enhancing resiliency in our residents

Abstract

Burnout is a syndrome defined by 3 principal components: emotional exhaustion, depersonalization, and diminished feelings of personal accomplishment.1 Burnout negatively affects patient care, affects patient safety, and results in deleterious effects on practitioners.2 A recently published article reports that 73% of neurology residents describe at least one symptom of burnout.3