VIDEO: Addressing physician burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic

Key takeaways:

• During the pandemic, medical professionals carried a heavy burden in caring for patients in need.
• A professor at the Montefiore Medical Center describes how her institution helped address these added stressors.

SAN FRANCISCO — The COVID-19 pandemic presented challenges to medical professionals in caring for their own mental health.

These challenges included ensuring quality care for patients despite restrictions, feelings of burnout and worries about exposing friends and family to COVID-19.

In this Healio video exclusive, Carol A. Bernstein, MD, vice chair for Faculty Development and Wellbeing and a professor in the psychiatry and behavioral science and the obstetrics and gynecology and women’s health departments at the Montefiore Medical Center Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, discusses how the pandemic impacted the mental health of medical professionals and how her institution responded.