The COVID-19 Experience: On the Front Lines

On this episode of Shrinking Burnout, we interview Lorraine, an outstanding nurse currently working in New England who describes her experiences working both as an ICU nurse and travel nurse (1:15). S...

20 Dec 202141min

On this episode, our co-resident guests, Drs. Austin Greenhaw and Sam Sheffield, join us to discuss the unique challenges of being LGBT-identifying medical professionals. Together we take a brief look...

19 Feb 202134min

On this episode, we bring a new guest, Allison, to discuss vicarious trauma (1:32) and the link with burnout, discuss personal experiences of encountering vicarious trauma as medical students and resi...

15 Dec 202029min

On this episode "The Covid 19 experience revisited", second year psychiatry resident Chris* joins us to look back on his experience working on the medical floors during the covid surge several months ...

1 Okt 202017min

Bernard Chang, MD, PhD joins the Shrinking Burnout Podcast to discuss clinician burnout research. We talk about his research in the Emergency Room settings (5:50), the importance of destigmatization o...

2 Aug 202047min

This is the second part of the racism in medicine series, where we continue with our guests Dr. Maya Khandker, Dr. Audrey Li, Dr. Elyon Obamedo and discuss how clinicians experience and deal with raci...

11 Juli 202037min

In this first of a two-part series on racism in medicine, we discuss why racism relates to burnout (1:10), a brief history of the racism in medicine (3:20), and with our contributing guests Dr. Maya K...

4 Juli 202036min

This week we interviewed Angie, a social worker working on an inpatient psychiatric unit who tells us more about her experiences during COVID19 and beyond. Burnout is not a concept unique to physician...

19 Juni 202023min