North Texas Research Forum 2025
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Division
North Texas
Hospital
Medical City Fort Worth
Specialty
Family Medicine
Document Type
Poster
Publication Date
2025
Keywords
internship and residency, graduate medical education, wellness, burnout
Disciplines
Family Medicine | Medical Education | Medicine and Health Sciences
Abstract
Background: Residency is defined by constant change. The expectations, specialty, preceptor teaching styles and varied knowledge sets needed for each rotation differ greatly. As a result, residents are forced to adapt their learning styles quickly, to ensure they optimize the small amount of time allotted to them. Multiple studies have shown the high levels of stress, depression, anxiety and impostor syndrome that run rampant throughout medical learners, residents included. Our residency program has recently started a new obstetrics rotation with many requirements still unknown. This study evaluates the efficacy of the update to the “The Intern Survival Handbook” in mitigating stressors among new trainees, enhancing their work performance, and promoting overall mental health, specifically with a new obstetrics and gynecology rotation. Methods: We have created a short, easily digestible “chapter” to the “Intern Survival Guide” with information provided to us by Medical City Arlington OB Residents. The knowledge that they have imparted includes shift hours, important personnel (residents and attendings), workflow, note templates, presentation guidelines, and common assessment workups. We plan to administer 2 surveys. One in February 2025 evaluating the desire for an update and one in May 2025 evaluating the effect of the chapter on overall resident wellness. Results The results will depend on the final survey, which will be completed in March 2025 Discussion We hope that with the implementation of an “OB Guide" as an adjunct to the “Intern Survival Guide” to decrease the stress of unknown rotation parameters among fellow residents in addition to improving workflow, and increasing overall resident wellness.
Original Publisher
HCA Healthcare Graduate Medical Education
Recommended Citation
Vohra, Aaishah; Adeleye, Lola; Soomro, Zara; Crompton, Maria; and Mir, Tasaduq, "The “OB Guide”: A Proposed Adjunct to the “Intern Survival Guide” and its Effect on Resident Wellness" (2025). North Texas Research Forum 2025. 16.
https://scholarlycommons.hcahealthcare.com/northtexas2025/16