SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Preventing Burnout During the COVID-19 Pandemic

By Kate O’Rourke
Co-posted with General Surgery News

According to Elke Van Hoof, a professor of health psychology and primary care psychology at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in Brussels, Belgium, and an authority in the fields of stress and burnout, the multiple stresses people are currently experiencing due to the COVID-19 pandemic will result in a secondary epidemic of burnout and stress-related absenteeism in the latter half of 2020.

At a recent webinar of the American Society for