Strategies to lighten professional burden

Some strategies are easy to implement and others take a lot of time and effort. In this TubulesLive Dr. Dan Shaffer outlines some of the ideas that he came across in practice, and from other practitioners over the past two decades of being a clinical dentist, technician, teacher, mentor and lecturer whilst working in general practice, community dentistry, teaching in academic environments and facilitating dento-legal workshops on behalf of Dental Protection.

Aims and objectives:

Gain an understanding of building resilience, taking into consideration:

• What is burnout: emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation, low sense of personal accomplishment
• Incidence of burnout
• Impact of burnout
• Productivity and burnout
• Reducing burnout
• Building resilience