Assessing a Structured Mental Fitness Program for Academic Acute Care Surgeons: A Pilot Study

There is a well-established positive correlation between improved physician wellness and patient care outcomes. Mental fitness is a component of wellness that is understudied in academic medicine. We piloted a structured mental fitness Positive Intelligence (PQ) training program for academic surgeons, hypothesizing this would be associated with improvements in PQ scores, wellness, sleep, and trainee evaluations.
Source: Journal of Surgical Research - Category: Surgery Authors: Tags: Thoracic Surgery Source Type: research