Six Steps to Achieve Meaning, Wellness, and Avoid Burnout in a Residency Program

Burnout has become an increasingly recognized problem in higher medical education and is particularly prevalent within the field of Neurology and its training programs. Many previously reported wellness initiatives in other residencies focused mainly on community/team building. We developed a comprehensive Wellness Curriculum (WC) and established a new role of Resident Wellness Liaison in order to facilitate wellness across the department and training program. Here we present a 6-step outline of our WC which can easily be adapted to the needs of other programs. The steps include creating a Wellness Committee with a Resident Wellness Liaison, identification and optimization of institutional resources, identifying and troubleshooting barriers to wellness, providing education and reflection on wellness, showing appreciation to each other, and assessing the impact of the implemented strategies. In order to measure the impact of our WC and to perform a needs assessment for future directions, we posed questions—grounded in the theory of drivers of burnout and engagement—to our residents (N = 24) at a noon conference in the summer of 2020. Interventions implemented at our institution have been very well received by residents, as evidenced by their comments and feedback. Themes that were highlighted by residents include enjoying flexibility, having a welcoming social support system at work, and being able to find meaning in the day-to-day work. The creation of a comprehensive WC is a feasible and meaningful intervention for addressing resident wellness in a Neurology training program and could be adapted to other programs.

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Open science reforms: Strengths, challenges, and future directions

10.35542/osf.io/sgfy8 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Kathryn R. Wentzel

Keyword(s):

Research Design ◽

Educational Psychology ◽

Open Science ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Future Directions ◽

Science Practices ◽

Research Findings ◽

Potential Benefits ◽

The Impact

In this article, I comment on the potential benefits and limitations of open science reforms for improving the transparency and accountability of research, and enhancing the credibility of research findings within communities of policy and practice. Specifically, I discuss the role of replication and reproducibility of research in promoting better quality studies, the identification of generalizable principles, and relevance for practitioners and policymakers. Second, I suggest that greater attention to theory might contribute to the impact of open science practices, and discuss ways in which theory has implications for sampling, measurement and research design. Ambiguities concerning the aims of preregistration and registered reports also are highlighted. In conclusion, I discuss structural roadblocks to open science reform and reflect on the relevance of these reforms for educational psychology.

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Problematising the interplay between employment relations, migration and mobility

Employee Relations ◽

10.1108/01425451211267946 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 34 (6) ◽

pp. 580-593 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Jenny K. Rodriguez ◽

Lesley Mearns

Keyword(s):

Labour Market ◽

Migrant Workers ◽

Division Of Labour ◽

Employment Relations ◽

Work Experiences ◽

Future Directions ◽

Content Type ◽

The Impact ◽

Work And Employment

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue by problematising labour agency, precariousness, and labour fragmentation as defining themes of the interplay between employment relations, migration and mobility.Design/methodology/approachDrawing from discussions about the impact of globalisation on changes in features of work and employment, and bringing together theory and research on employment relations and labour migration, the paper discusses the relational spatial and temporal nature of agency, the diverse features of worker experiences of precariousness, and the resulting fragmentation in labour solidarity.FindingsLabour agency, precariousness and labour fragmentation intersect to create the axis of dynamics of hardship and abuse that dominate work experiences of migrant workers in the global labour market. Globalisation has a pervasive impact in articulating and perpetuating systemic processes of closure, entrapment and containment, which are triggered by migration and legitimised by dynamics of employment relations.Originality/valueThe paper contributes to current discussions about the interplay between migration, mobility and employment relations and sets out future directions of research to enhance our understanding of the role of employment relations to perpetuate, legitimise and normalise dynamics of globalisation that promote the migrant division of labour and create contradictory labour demands and displacements in the global labour market.

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The Oxford Handbook of Hope

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199399314.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Keyword(s):

Current Knowledge ◽

Physical And Mental Health ◽

Comprehensive Overview ◽

Future Directions ◽

Theoretical Perspectives ◽

The Many ◽

The Impact ◽

Made In

The Oxford Handbook of Hope provides a comprehensive overview of current knowledge regarding the science and practice of hope. Hope has long been a topic of interest to philosophers and the general public, but it was only in recent decades that hope became a focus of psychological science. Rick Snyder defined hope as a cognitive trait that helps individuals to identify and pursue goals and consists of two components: pathways, the perceived capacity to identify strategies necessary to achieve goals, and agency, the willpower or motivation to pursue those pathways to achieve goals. Hope has become one of most robust and promising topics in the burgeoning field of positive psychology. This book reviews the progress that has been made in the past 25 years regarding the origins and influence of hope. Topics covered include current theoretical perspectives on how best to define hope and how it is distinct from related constructs, current best practices for measuring and quantifying hope, interventions and strategies for promoting hope across different settings and the lifespan, the impact that hope has on many dimensions and domains of physical and mental health, and the many ways and contexts in which hope promotes resilience and positive functioning. Experts in the field both review what is currently known about the role of hope in different domains and identify topics and questions that can help to guide the next decade of research. The handbook concludes with a collaborative vision on the future directions of the science of hope.

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The Role of the Negative 3-H Trio in Second Language Education

Frontiers in Psychology ◽

10.3389/fpsyg.2021.736928 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 ◽

Author(s):

Jing Chu ◽

Xiaoxia Zeng

Keyword(s):

Interpersonal Communication ◽

Classroom Discourse ◽

Language Education ◽

Future Directions ◽

Second Language Education ◽

Communication Competency ◽

Peace Psychology ◽

The Impact ◽

Life Career

Language has been proven to strongly affect different aspects on one's life/career including his/her identity and interpersonal communication skills beyond the immediate context. Given this, now proper discourse and interlocutor's emotions are highlighted in academia. However, few studies (if any) have explored the role of negative stressors and constructs in L2 classroom discourse and interpersonal communication competency. To fill this yawning lacuna, the present study provided a glance at the impact of three negative language aspects of hate, hurt, and harm (also called negative 3-H trio) on L2 education. Moreover, it presents the definitions, origins (positive psychology, positive peace psychology), dimensions, and applications of each aspect. Finally, some implications and future directions are suggested to avid scholars in L2 and mainstream education.

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Core Needle Biopsy Enhances the Activity of the CCL2/CCR2 Pathway in the Microenvironment of Invasive Breast Cancer

Onco ◽

10.3390/onco2010001 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

Marja Heiskala ◽

Kristiina Joensuu ◽

Päivi Heikkilä

Keyword(s):

Breast Cancer ◽

Core Needle Biopsy ◽

Needle Biopsy ◽

Tumor Development ◽

Future Directions ◽

Core Needle ◽

Tumor Surveillance ◽

Ccl2 Expression ◽

The Impact

The use of core needle biopsy (CNB) as a means to verify malignancy preoperatively is a paradigm in current breast cancer care, and the risk of enhancing tumor development by this procedure has been considered insignificant. Experimental work in mice has shown preoperative biopsies to increase tumor supportive elements in the microenvironment, whereas, in humans, the impact of CNB on the host’s immunologic response has not been investigated. In this pilot study, we compared the expression of CCL2/CCR2 pathway components at the protein level in samples from CNBs to those from the corresponding resected tumors from 52 patients with primary breast cancer. We found an increased expression of CD163, CD14 and CCR2 in monocytes/macrophages and a slight decrease of CCL2 in the malignant epithelium in the tumors after the biopsy. The increased infiltration of immunosuppressive monocytes/macrophages and the decreased tumor cell CCL2 expression, presumably due to the CCR2 availability-dependent CCL2 internalization, suggest that CNB enhances the activity of the CCL2/CCR2 pathway, and this finding warrants confirmatory examination. The switch in the context-dependent role of CCL2 on the polarization of macrophages may lead to increased tumor supportive function both locally and in the peripheral immune machinery. The future directions in breast cancer should include early interventions to support the tumor surveillance of the host.

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The impact of thin ideal images on mood: what role do demand characteristics play?

10.32920/ryerson.14645967.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Zahra Vahedi

Keyword(s):

Experimental Studies ◽

Media Images ◽

Future Directions ◽

Demand Characteristics ◽

Fashion Magazines ◽

True Purpose ◽

Undergraduate Female ◽

And Control ◽

The Impact

Previous research has shown that female viewers generally experience detrimental effects following exposure to idealized media images. However, in experimental studies, demand characteristics – or cues that help the participant deduce the true purpose of the study – might influence the responses participants provide, particularly in studies involving idealized images. The present study investigated the potential role of demand characteristics following exposure to media images. Undergraduate female students (N = 172) were assigned to three groups (Implied Demand, Minimized Demand and Control), two of which were exposed to idealized media images in fashion magazines. Demand characteristics were manipulated when the experimenter provided the magazines during a break period, and participants’ mood was assessed both pre and post-exposure. Contrary to previous research, our results indicated that exposure to magazine images did not have consistently detrimental effects on the measures of participants’ mood. Potential explanations for these results and future directions of research are discussed.

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The impact of thin ideal images on mood: what role do demand characteristics play?

10.32920/ryerson.14645967 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Zahra Vahedi

Keyword(s):

Experimental Studies ◽

Media Images ◽

Future Directions ◽

Demand Characteristics ◽

Fashion Magazines ◽

True Purpose ◽

Undergraduate Female ◽

And Control ◽

The Impact

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Role of Personality Traits and Education Towards the Entrepreneurial Intentions of Students

Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience ◽

10.1166/jctn.2019.8390 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 16 (11) ◽

pp. 4782-4788

Author(s):

Phraudomsitthinayok

Keyword(s):

Emotional Intelligence ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Positive Relationship ◽

Positive Impact ◽

Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽

Entrepreneurial Education ◽

Future Directions ◽

The Impact ◽

Emotionally Intelligent

Positive personality traits have been linked with various positive outcomes such as job performance, job satisfaction etc. However emotional intelligence and creativity have been scarcely linked with the entrepreneurship. Bering in mind the importance of entrepreneurship, present study has investigated the impact of emotional intelligence, entrepreneurial education and creativity on the entrepreneurial intentions. Data were collected from the students who were in their last semester of their degree. Smart-PLS was used for data analysis. The results of the study revealed that emotional intelligence has significant positive impact on the entrepreneurial intentions of students. Furthermore, results also showed a significant positive relationship between creativity and entrepreneurial intentions. Finally results also showed a positive relationship between the entrepreneurial education and entrepreneurial intentions. All the hypothesis was supported by the results of the study. Study findings concluded that students who are emotionally intelligent, creative and when they are provided with the quality education regarding the entrepreneurship, their intentions tend to be more inclined towards the entrepreneurship. Future directions are limitations are provided at the end of the study.

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Evaluation of the impact of an entrepreneurship training program in Recife, Brazil

Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies ◽

10.1108/jeee-10-2017-0077 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (3) ◽

pp. 472-488 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Fernando José Moreira Coelho ◽

Carla Marques ◽

Armando Loureiro ◽

Vanessa Ratten

Keyword(s):

Training Program ◽

Entrepreneurship Education ◽

Structured Interview ◽

Entrepreneurship Training ◽

Content Type ◽

Emerging Country ◽

New Business ◽

The Impact ◽

Practical Implications

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to understand in a qualitative context, the importance of the EMPRETEC entrepreneurship training in an emerging country context of Brazil. This helps to understand the capacity of entrepreneurship education to improve the ability of individuals to generate new business opportunities. Design/methodology/approach The data were collected through three semi-structured interview scripts and analyzed with the support of the NVIVO qualitative analysis software using Bardin content analysis. Findings The findings support the assertion that in emerging economies, entrepreneurship education is increasingly important in transforming society through enabling individuals to progress in their careers and life. Research limitations/implications It was concluded that the EMPRETEC course fulfilled the objective of encouraging entrepreneurial behavior and stimulating the trainees to contribute to the economic growth of the country. The implication was that participation in entrepreneurship education is strictly interconnected to the success of the trainees. Practical implications The study found that there are positive practical outcomes for the trainees’, teachers’ and managers’ perceptions involved in the Entrepreneurship Training Program – EMPRETEC. Originality/value The paper helps understand the role of the trainees’ (EMPRETECos), teachers’ and managers’ perceptions of the Program at SEBRAE/Recife about the impact of the Entrepreneurship Training Program – EMPRETEC.

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The impact of maternal child- and self-oriented pain-related injustice appraisals upon maternal attention to child pain, attention to anger, and pain-attending behavior

British Journal of Pain ◽

10.1177/20494637211057092 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 204946372110570

Author(s):

Fleur Baert ◽

Dimitri Van Ryckeghem ◽

Alvaro Sanchez-Lopez ◽

Megan M Miller ◽

Adam T Hirsh ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Attentional Bias ◽

Cold Pressor ◽

Attention Allocation ◽

Future Directions ◽

Cold Pressor Task ◽

Free Viewing ◽

Attending Behavior ◽

The Impact ◽

Maternal Child

Objectives The current study investigated the role of maternal child- and self-oriented injustice appraisals about child pain in understanding maternal attention for child pain and adult anger cues and pain-attending behavior. Methods Forty-four children underwent a painful cold pressor task (CPT) while their mother observed. Eye tracking was used to measure maternal attention to child pain and adult anger cues. Initial attention allocation and attentional maintenance were indexed by probability of first fixation and gaze duration, respectively. Maternal pain-attending behaviors toward the child were videotaped and coded after CPT completion. Mothers also rated the intensity of pain and anger cues used in the free-viewing tasks. All analyses controlled for maternal catastrophizing about child pain. Results Neither child-oriented nor self-oriented injustice was associated with maternal attentional bias toward child pain. Regarding attention toward self-relevant anger cues, differential associations were observed for self- and child-oriented injustice appraisals, with maternal self-oriented injustice being associated with a greater probability of first fixating on anger and with higher anger ratings, whereas maternal child-oriented injustice was associated with enhanced attentional maintenance toward anger. Neither type of maternal injustice appraisals was associated with maternal pain-attending behavior, which was only associated with maternal catastrophizing. Conclusions The current study sheds light on potential differential mechanisms through which maternal self- vs. child-oriented injustice appraisals may exert their impact on parent and child pain-related outcomes. Theoretical implications and future directions are discussed.

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