Quality and Safety in Health Care, Part XLIX: Mentoring, Coaching, and Burnout.

Mentoring and coaching are activities that are quite helpful in having doctors become happy, engaged, and successful in their work and also help prevent burnout. Coaching helps promote a better balance between work, rest, family, and fun pursuits. Coaching also helps the one being coached develop better emotional awareness, become more cognizant of the good he/she has done, develop a positive outlook on life, find more meaning in work, and be better able to overcome obstacles. In ways such as these, the coach helps his/her client become more resilient and recover from burnout.