Humanism and Resilience in Residency Training

This book aims to help identify pre-existing adaptive traits and positive perspectives in resident trainees, while challenging those that are less adaptive by building a formal curriculum for medical education that focuses on the humanistic aspects of medicine.  Humanism in medicine is threatened by the false narrative that good physicians are superhumans who do not have their own needs.   Written by experts in the field, this book is designed to be a concise, integrated guide to resilience during residency training.  Through this guide, trainees learn (i) the usefulness of psychotherapeutic strategies for their own stress management and well-being; (ii) techniques and strategies that are useful in the practice of medicine; and (iii) to consider lifestyle modifications to improve physical and psychological health and well-being, through identification of positive and negative lifestyle factors influencing physicians’ response to stress.

Since it is designed for busy trainees and physicians, this volume meticulously provides easy-to-use, evidence-based learning tools and therapeutic techniques, including case studies, skill-building exercises, self-test questionnaires, illustrations, useful practice-reminder tips, and other features.

Humanism and Resilience in Residency Training is an excellent resource for all medical trainees and professionals who need to incorporate humanism and resilience in their practice, both for accreditation requirements and for personal well-being.  This includes medical students and residents, psychiatrists, addiction medicine specialists, family physicians, medical education professionals, hospitalists, nurses, and all healthcare providers

• Reappraisal and coping for physicians
• Social connectedness in medical training
• Physician wellbeing and structural competency
• Mindfulness and the physician in training
• Advocating for physician wellbeing
• Sustainable medical education

• Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, Division of Geriatric Psychiatry, Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada

  Ana Hategan

• Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

  Karen Saperson

• McMaster Children’s Hospital, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada

  Sheila Harms

• Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University, Department of Family Medicine, Hamilton, Canada

  Heather Waters

Ana Hategan, MD

Associate Clinical Professor

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences

McMaster University

Hamilton, ON, Canada

Karen Saperson, MBChB

Professor

Vice Chair

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences

McMaster University

Hamilton, ON, Canada

Sheila Harms, MD

Associate Professor

Associate Chair, Education

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences

McMaster University

Hamilton, ON, Canada

Heather Waters, MD

Associate Professor

Hamilton Site Director, Postgraduate Education

Department of Family Medicine

McMaster University

Hamilton, ON, Canada

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