Changing the Culture of Medical Residency to One That Promotes Wellness and Resiliency as a Priority, with Specific Interventions Implemented During a Pandemic Post-test

According to  AAMC data from 2021, there will be a physician shortage of up to 124,000 physicians in which of the following specialties?*

Primary Care
Surgery
Medical specialties
All of the above

The Internal Medicine Residents at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix experienced all of the following during the pandemic except:*

Fear
Fatigued
Futility
Frustration

The interventions done by the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix to mitigate the effects of the pandemic included all of the following except:*

Hiring a dedicated GME therapist and Director of Wellness
Developed an established curriculum to allow residents and fellows to provide peer support and resources to mitigate stress in the reactive and injury stages.
Included faculty in discussions on how to improve and support systems level well-being interventions
Increased learning modules on wellness for trainees to complete on their own time

Over the course of one year with a dedicated GME therapist with over 140 sessions provided to medical trainees that were evenly distributed between PGY1-5, there were zero no shows for the scheduled appointments.*

True
False

Changing the Culture of Medical Residency to One That Promotes Wellness and Resiliency as a Priority, with Specific Interventions Implemented During a Pandemic Post-test

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