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Resilience Training for the Trauma Surgeon

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The literature on resilience in surgery has exploded over the past decade, with peer-reviewed references in PubMed jumping from 46 in 2009 to 232 in 2019. The issue of resilience for trauma surgeons is especially salient as our work, by definition, exposes us to traumatic events on a regular basis. This places us at high risk for psychiatric sequelae such as depression, burnout, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), among others [2, 3]. Newer terms, such as “moral distress,” “moral injury,” and “compassion fatigue” continue to emerge, all related to exposure and response to trauma within the political, social and economic confines of medicine and society [4, 5]. “Resilience” and “resilience training” are colloquially seen as a balm to these stressors, but the exact meanings and uses of these phrases vary considerably and overlap with several adjacent phrases. Therefore, before we begin analyzing what we currently know about resilience and trauma surgery, we must start with definition of terms.

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Bryan, A.F., Nicholson, K., Zakrison, T.L. (2022). Resilience Training for the Trauma Surgeon. In: Wilson, K., Rogers, S.O. (eds) Difficult Decisions in Trauma Surgery. Difficult Decisions in Surgery: An Evidence-Based Approach. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81667-4_33

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