Initial Characterization of Internal Medicine Resident Resilience and Association with Stress and Burnout
Table 2
Association of survey measures with high and low resilience.
Survey measure
Number of low resilience residents (%) ()
Number of high resilience residents (%) ()
value
Having the skills necessary to manage stress and burnout
11 (46)
16 (80)
0.02
Stress makes resident feel inferior to peers
17 (71)
4 (20)
<0.001
Never or rarely feeling burnout
4 (17)
8 (40)
0.08
Stress never interferes with relationships outside of work
0 (0)
8 (40)
<0.001
Direct involvement in medical errors
5 (21)
3 (15)
0.62
Never reported a directly involved medical error
16 (67)
11 (55)
0.43
Resilience was measured using the Connor-Davidson resilience scale. Low resilience was defined as a score <70 and high resilience as a score of 80–100.
