Week of May 15–21, 2026 · 10 curated picks · refreshed Thu May 21, 2026 at 4:09 AM
A system-wide GME well-being initiative built explicitly on Self-Determination Theory and Job Demands-Resources, scaled across 5800+ residents at 366 programs, with program-director participation linked to better retention. The rare account of translating motivation theory into a sustainable multi-site operating model, squarely in your SDT and residency-leadership wheelhouse.
National survey of US IM program directors (57% response) characterizing resident backup coverage systems and their tensions around fatigue, parental leave, and equity. Directly transferable to anesthesiology residency design and the culture-of-disclosure questions you work on.
Feasibility RCT of a web-based positive-psychology intervention for anaesthesiologists (individual vs workplace vs waitlist), with honest null between-group findings and engagement decay against clinical schedules. Specialty-specific and a clear-eyed read on what bite-sized digital well-being tools can and cannot do for time-pressured clinicians.
One of the larger coaching trials in the workforce-well-being literature: a multi-center two-arm RCT (400 nurses) of ontological coaching with psychological well-being primary and intention-to-leave secondary. Worth tracking for effect sizes as a test of whether structured coaching moves retention-relevant outcomes.
Mixed-methods evaluation of a clinician-led peer-coaching program during a major EHR transition, with lower burnout (29% vs 41%) but no change in technical confidence. Useful evidence that peer support can protect well-being through technology shocks even when it does not change mastery, relevant to your peer-support work.
Survey of 377 female doctors: 58.6% reported workplace sexual harassment, 0.9% filed a formal complaint, and 2.7% reported related suicidal thoughts. A stark portrait of reporting paralysis and psychological safety that connects to your help-seeking-barriers and physician-suicide threads.
Multi-institutional survey of urologists showing a non-linear perfectionism-burnout link and a strong inverse association with grit (92% burnout at low grit vs 7% at highest), with residents far more burned out than attendings. Adds dispositional and self-regulation angles to the usual workload story and points toward trainee-targeted approaches.
MBI survey of 457 surgeons documenting 70.5% burnout, with weekly hours the dominant predictor and a sharp rise tied to a post-resignation health-system crisis. A natural experiment in how an acute system shock reshapes the workload and burnout burden on remaining attendings.
Case-control study linking categorical physician burnout to roughly twofold higher allostatic load, with an effort-reward-imbalance interaction. Physiologic evidence that burnout is measurable cumulative biological strain, not only an affective state, despite the small male-only sample.
Systematic review and meta-analysis of 3 RCTs of yoga for nurse burnout, with encouraging effect sizes across all MBI components but high heterogeneity. Belongs in the "promising individual-level adjunct" column rather than as a substitute for organizational fixes, a framing you make often.