Participation of BelMAPE in the round table "Measures to combat professional burnout of medical workers in the CIS member states"

In order to discuss measures to combat burnout (EB) of medical workers, on December 7, 2022, there had been held a round table "Measures to combat professional burnout of medical workers in member states of CIS countries” at the Central Research Institute of Health Organization and Informatization (Moscow).

Head of the Department of Public Health and Healthcare of BelMAPE Shchaveleva M.V. and the senior lecturer of the Department of Public Health and Healthcare, psychologist of the Center for Monitoring Occupational Risks and Psychological Support of Medical Workers of BelMAPE Marchenko-Tyabut D.A. took part in the round table.

The event was also attended by representatives of WHO Regional Office for Europe, Health Cooperation Council of the CIS Executive Committee, experts from Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan. The expert organizations from the Republic of Belarus were BelMAPE, Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Medical Technologies, Informatization, Management and Health Economics, Republican Scientific and Practical Center for Mental Health.

The participants were addressed with a welcoming speech by the scientific director of the Central Research Institute of Health Sciences, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Starodubov V.I. and Secretary of the Council for Cooperation in the Field of Healthcare of the CIS, Advisor to the Department of Humanitarian Cooperation, General Political and Social Problems of the CIS Executive Committee Shamal E.V.

Thomas Zapata, an expert of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, in his report "International experience in combating professional burnout" noted that the COVID-19 pandemic had the greatest impact on physicians: emotional burnout was detected in 41–52% of medical workers.

In her speech, head of the Department of Public Health and Healthcare of BelMAPE Marina Shchaveleva noted that the department has been dealing with the problem of emotional burnout of medical workers, including healthcare organizers, for more than 15 years. In the course of studying this problem, a number of regularities were revealed. Managers with little managerial experience are more susceptible to EV: with the experience, knowledge gained during training, they gain the ability to rank the tasks to be solved, as well as to delegate authority. Training programs for healthcare organizers at retraining and advanced training courses at the department provide for the study of the issues of the occurrence of EV and its prevention.
Senior Lecturer of the Department of Public Health and Healthcare of BelMAPE, psychologist of the Center for Monitoring Occupational Risks and Psychological Support for Medical Workers of BelMAPE Dina Marchenko-Tyabut acquainted the participants of the webinar with the work of the Center for Monitoring Occupational Risks and Psychological Support for Medical Workers, created at the initiative of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Belarus at the beginning of 2019.

The presented information aroused the interest of colleagues from the CIS countries.