Objectives:

Recognize the burden of burnout

Describe burnout prevalence and its associations with clinician wellbeing, performance, and patient safety

Identify the drivers of surgical stress

Distinguish avoidable workplace pressures from unavoidable clinical uncertainty and emergencies.

Understand the ESRT skillset

Explain attention control, emotional regulation, metacognition, and interoception—and the supporting research.

Practice a usable strategy

Apply a brief cognitive and physiologic reset during clinical work and participate in a 10-minute guided exercise