Abstract
Requirements to include professionalism in residency curricula have generated a substantial body of literature concerning the environments that fail to nurture professionalism. Local and national surveys provide evidence that a high prevalence of depersonalization and emotional exhaustion exists among residents and that clinical practice is impaired as a result of these factors. A group of 34 residents from ten residency programmes participated in the psychometric testing of a resident wellness assessment instrument that can be rapidly administered, scored, and interpreted. The Brief Resident Wellness Profile is composed of a Mood faces graphical rating item and a six-question subscale. The six-item subscale had good reliability (alpha=0.83; r=0.84), convergent validity (r=0.63), discriminant validity (r=-0.37), and concurrent validity (p=0.007). The Mood faces item had good convergent validity (r=0.66), discriminant validity (r=-0.71), and concurrent validity (p=0.008). The Brief Resident Wellness Profile appears to be a reliable and valid instrument that measures residents' sense of professional accomplishment and mood and can be rapidly administered, scored, and interpreted.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 370-374 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Medical Teacher |
Volume | 28 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jun 2006 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Education