Stress, Burnout, Resilience Flashcards

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what drives burnout and what are symptoms?

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  • what drives burnout?
    • excessive workload
    • inefficient environment, inadequate support
    • loss of autonomy/flexibility
    • problems with work-life integration
  • symptoms:
    • depersonalization
    • emotional exhaustion
    • loss of meaning or enjoyment
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what does burnout lead to?

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  • decreases physicians’ professionalism and the quality of medical care they provide
  • increases medical errors and malpractice rates
  • lowers patient compliance and satisfaction with medical care
  • increases rates of physician substance abuse, suicide and intent to leave practice
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define psychological stress

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unacknowledged painful emotions: fear, anger, sadness, etc.

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describe the short term vs. long term effect of stress

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  • short term: adaptive changes that help us respond to stress by mobilizing energy
  • long term: corticotropins and toxic to organs, including the brain
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describe the formula for resilience

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  • self correction + emotion regulation
  • other variables:
    • cognitive strengths
    • cognitive humility
    • perceived support
    • ability to self-correct and self-regulate in the presence of aversive stimuli
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describe mature vs. immature empathy

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  • immature: sharing similar experiences, gushing, unsolicited fix-it advice, pity, humor as a distraction, poorly-based reassurance
  • mature: that must be….you seem….I’m sorry that…..I can imagine that…..Tell me more….
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describe the availability heuristic

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  • the tendency to overestimate the likelihood of events that have been encountered recently and are fresh in memory
    • treating 6 homeless pts for secondary infxn due to drug use:
      • all homeless person use injection drugs
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describe base rate fallacy

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  • the tendency to ignore rate information while focusing on specific information
    • 21 year old male presents with hallucinations; is he schizophrenic (1 in 100 chances) or on psychedelics (15 in 100 chance)?
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describe framing effect

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  • how information is framed:
    • describing treatment options in terms of survival rate (people choose riskier option) vs. mortality rate (they choose conservative option)
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describe confirmation bias (verification bias)

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  • the tendency to search for, interpret, focus on, and remember information that corresponds with one’s pre-existing beliefs
    • we favor (and even manipulate) information: conspiracy theorists, for instance
    • election politics
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describe representativeness heuristics

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  • relying on past experiences to decide about new ones
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describe conjunction fallacy

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  • the tendency to assume that specific conditions are more probable than general ones
    • pt in ER is slurring his words and has not bated in some time > he is drunk and homeless
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describe Gambler’s fallacy

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  • the tendency to believe that future probabilities are altered by past events, when in reality they are independent
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