780 - A literature review of Strategies implemented to reduce physician Burnout.

Objectives: Despite being responsible caretakers, physicians fail to engage in self care practices for themselves .
One of the main culprit implicating suicidality seen in physicians is "Burnout".
In our evidence based literature review we shall deal with each aspect of burnout while delineating miscellaneous strategies to better cope with it.

Design: A literature search was done on Pubmed and Google scholar database using words like "Strategies" , "Implemented ", "Reduce burnout in physicians ", "Organizational strategies", "Individual strategies". A total of 825 articles were found , 582 articles were excluded . Out of 243 articles only articles with physicians were included , while excluding articles with other health care workers. As a total of 18 articles were individually reviewed by our reviewers and presentation was prepared.

Results: In order to treat Burnout , we need to know about root causes of burnout which are long hours of work , work home conflicts are among the few mentioned . In order to reduce Burnout we divide our Strategies into Individual and Organizational strategies.

Individual strategies:- Emotional regulations, Nutrition and mental health, Professional help , Exercise and mindfulness.

Organizational strategies:- Administrative leadership ; Building a manageable workplace environment to support workplace efficiency; Scribes , medical assistants advantages at workplace environment; EHR " SWAT" team to mitigate EHR related burnout ; Establishing wellness program ; Cultivate community at work .

The following strategies will also help us to prevent personal and professional repurcussions of Burnout which includes Depression, Decreased productivity and professional efforts are among few mentioned in our poster.

Conclusions: In conclusion, even though studies suggests that organizational strategies yield better results, both variables must be practiced hand in hand . A trial and error run of all strategies available in literature should be tested upon to find out what works best for your workplace.