Program Helps Female Physicians Avoid Burnout

Tyra Fainstad, visiting associate professor at the University of Colorado (CU) School of Medicine, and co-author Adrienne Mann, assistant professor at the CU School of Medicine, said they both had experienced burnout, with feelings of “overwork, anxiety and creeping despair.” After finding life coaching to be helpful for their own experiences, they each pursued professional certification to help other physicians. They created the Better Together Physician Coaching program to target self-destructive attitudes and created a voluntary program that drew 101 participating female resident physicians in graduate medical education at the University of Colorado.