Combating Burnout & Improving Mindsets in Medical Education
The mission of this project is to address and resolve the crisis of burnout among medical students and physician faculty in higher education institutions. By creating equitable strategies and toolkits, the project aims to circumvent health disparities and ensure the health and well-being of rural and underserved communities across the nation.
The American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM) and its partner, Motivate Lab, are uniquely positioned to address and remediate the persistent and growing burnout crisis. The grant received from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has accelerated and extended efforts to develop and implement a new course for medical faculty and administrators. Resilient Mindsets in Medicine is a two-part course that introduces learning mindset strategies and demonstrates how they can create motivationally-supportive learning environments to increase medical students’ resiliency.
About the Project
Working Together
Medical school faculty are partnering with AACOM and motivation science experts at Motivate Lab to address resilience in Osteopathic medical students. This partnership is determined to identify the best strategies for supporting physician well-being and diversifying the physician pipeline.
Our Research Process
Through rigorous motivation research and design thinking, we focus on understanding the mindsets and motivations that promote learning, growth, and well-being. Those insights are used to develop evidence-based solutions that can be applied across the medical school context.
What Our Participants Are Saying
