Abstract
Challenging situations and intense emotions are inherent to clinical practice. Failure
to address these emotions has been associated with health care provider burnout. One
way to combat this burnout and increase resilience is participation in emotional debriefing.
Although there are many models of emotional debriefings, these are not commonly performed
in clinical practice. We provide a guide for implementing emotional debriefing training
utilizing the American Academy of Pediatrics Resilience Curriculum into clinical training
programs, with a focus on preparing senior residents and fellows to act as debriefing
facilitators. Senior residents and fellows can provide in-the-moment emotional debriefing
which allows for greater health care provider participation, including medical students
and other pediatric trainees. Training of senior residents and fellows may allow more
frequent emotional debriefing and in turn may help to improve the resilience of pediatricians
when they face challenging situations in clinical practice.
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Published online: October 18, 2018
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The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
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