Work Hour Limits Versus Wellness Interventions in Reducing Resident Burnout

摘要

We read the review of burnout interventions by Busireddy and colleagues~(~(1)) with interest and applaud the authors' efforts to synthesize evidence around interventions to reduce burnout among trainees. We published a study that examined the impact of a formal narrative medicine curriculum among obstetrics and gynecology residents at 3 training programs, which demonstrated a significant improvement in emotional exhaustion (measured by the Maslach Burnout Inventory) for residents who attended more of the reflective writing workshops, with a moderate effect size as measured by Cohen's d .~(~(2))While the authors~(~(1)) did not indicate in their methods when they performed their query of the literature, the review includes studies from 1991 to 2015, 1 year before our study was in print. The omission raises 2 important points. The first is that systematic reviews should indicate when they were performed, to avoid the date of publication being interpreted as the date of the most recent articles included, when in fact the review was published almost 2 years after the latest article cited.