Mind Matters: Understanding Burnout Beyond Workload: The Role of Self-Worth (PSK30SEP26)

This session explores the relationship between self-worth, performance and burnout in medical training. We will consider how experiences within education, training and wider culture can lead to a sense of worth being closely tied to achievement, productivity and external validation.

The session will examine how this can impact wellbeing, confidence and responses to feedback, and how it may contribute to stress and burnout over time. Practical approaches will be introduced to support a more balanced and sustainable sense of self-worth, alongside strategies to reduce pressure and improve wellbeing.

The session is interactive and reflective in style, using a combination of brief teaching, guided reflection and discussion. It is suitable for all doctors in training and does not require prior knowledge.

Booking courses

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Joining Instructions

This is a virtual course, the joining instructions for the virtual meeting will be added to the documents section (above) before the course. Please ensure that you are able to access this before the course so that you are ready to join on the day.

Booking cancellation

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If you need to cancel within 1 week of the course or the course has started and you are not able to attend, please email england.lsfdcourses.yh@nhs.net to give your apologies.

This course is only available to General Practice and Higher Specialty trainees, and SAS Doctors within Yorkshire and the Humber.

Mandatory: Dentist, or Doctor, or Public Health Professional

To support doctors in training to understand the relationship between self-worth, performance and burnout, and develop practical strategies to support wellbeing and more sustainable ways of working.

This course will: 

• Introduce the concept of self-worth and how it may be shaped within medical training. 
• Explore the relationship between performance, expectations and self-worth. 
• Examine how achievement-based self-worth can contribute to stress and burnout.
• Provide opportunities for guided reflection on individual beliefs and experiences (optional). 
• Introduce practical strategies to support a more balanced and sustainable sense of self-worth.
• Explore approaches to reducing unhelpful pressure and supporting wellbeing.

After this course, delegates will be able to: 

• Understand the concept of self-worth and its relevance in medical training. 
• Recognise how performance and expectations may influence their sense of self-worth. 
• Understand the relationship between self-worth, stress and burnout. 
• Reflect on their own beliefs and patterns related to self-worth. 
• Apply practical strategies to support a more balanced sense of self-worth and improve wellbeing.