Tzili Charney Pilot Program on Values and Virtues in Medical Practice (2018-2022)
Burnout preventions, Professionalism Heightening, and Enhancing Resiliency (BUPHER), in the Surgical Division Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
The program aims to meet the urgent problems widely recognized on hospital medical wards:
1) The violation of doctors’ commitment to core professional values such as respect and showing compassion, central to patients’ care.
2) The increased rates in physicians’ burnout, a significant hazard to their well-being, professional functioning, and appropriate quality patient care.
Tzili Charney pilot program brings together the experience developed by the Cohen-Harris Resilience Center (by the Association for Children at Risk, RA), Department of Medical Education of Sackler Faculty of Medicine and the Surgical Division, Sourasky Tel Aviv Medical Center, Israel. This collaboration develops, implements and assesses a professionalism and resiliency-based top-down educational program for about 50 surgical physicians, including: department heads, seniors and juniors, trusted for the care of about 5,000 patients per year. Once successfully assessed, the program will serve the hospital, as well as the medical school, as a professional paradigm for implementation.