Begin Your Journey: Tackling Burnout

"Just really try to have awareness; figure out, what do you really need right now? Once you realize what you need, have compassion, stop the judgment," says Diana Londoño, MD.

"Sometimes, when you just look at people in the eye, you sort of can forget about everything else; you can just focus on that person in front of you," says Diana Londoño, MD.

"You have to take care of those basic needs, because if not, you're not going to have the space to react differently when you're getting triggered," says Diana Londoño, MD.

“Our identity is not just about a title; it's not just about that role. We are much bigger than that,” says Diana Londoño, MD.

“It's really important to pay attention to what's off balance,” says Diana Londoño, MD.

“I didn't want to only get coached; I thought, "Well, if I become a coach, maybe I can share this with others,” says Diana Londoño, MD.

“Listen to your body; these are the signals telling you something is out of balance,” says Diana Londoño, MD.

“Burnout is the end stage of unmanaged stress in the workplace,” says Diana Londoño, MD.

"It's been pretty consistent that our second-year urology residents are really suffering," says Amanda C. North, MD.

“I couldn't change the fact that it was going to be a few months until I had help. But I could change my own response to the situation,” says Amanda C. North, MD.

"In 2021, we were finally able to demonstrate a statistically significant difference in burnout between men and women in urology with women having much higher burnout rates," says Amanda C. North, MD.