Every year, thousands of medical residents, nursing graduates, and allied health trainees step out of the classroom and into the clinical work environment – often without the structured support they need to make that transition safely and sustainably. Prescription for Burnout draws on more than 25 years of hands-on experience developing the MedRAP/CPR program at Baylor College of Medicine to offer a proven, replicable model for closing that gap.

Author Iris Mushin, M.Ed., MBA, lays out five core principles for institutions and individuals alike: creating safe and supportive environments, structured mentorship, formalizing informal training, individualized support, and a continuous quality improvement process. These principles are translated into 13 practical modules organized around orientation and organizational skills, communication skills, continuous quality improvement, leadership skills, and crisis response.

Rather than treating burnout as an inevitable cost of medical training, Mushin frames it as a systems problem with a systems solution – one that hospitals, training programs, and policy makers can actually implement. The book pairs institutional strategy with individual coping tools, making it equally useful to administrators redesigning a residency program and to a first-year trainee trying to survive their first rotation.

Grounded in decades of direct program-building experience and reinforced by Mushin’s own published research, Prescription for Burnout offers healthcare educators and hospital leaders a rare combination: a model that is both academically credible and immediately actionable.