What does this research mean for the field?

Implementing the 'Rest is Resistance' framework in health professions education serves as a necessary form of political and cultural resistance against pervasive 'grind culture', promoting the well-being and self-preservation of minoritized professionals. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.ESTABLISHES_NEW_DIRECTION.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To introduce the 'Rest is Resistance' framework into health professions education to challenge grind culture and address racial battle fatigue among minoritized clinicians and trainees.

September 2, 2026Teaching and Learning in Medicine0 citations

Rest as Resistance: Reconceptualizing Well-Being and Agency in Health Professions Education

Beyond the Grind: “Rest is Resistance” in Health Professions Education

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MWMaranda C. Ward PLPaula Latortue-Albino RBRuth Bueter

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Conceptual framework highlights intentional rest as structural self-preservation in health professions education, suggesting systemic culture changes to protect minoritized clinicians.

Key Points

To introduce the 'Rest is Resistance' framework into health professions education to challenge grind culture and address racial battle fatigue among minoritized clinicians and trainees.
Application of Tricia Hersey's 'Rest is Resistance' framework to academic medicine using the lived experiences of minoritized health professions educators.
Qualitative structural analysis of academic productivity expectations, capitalism, and systemic inequities affecting clinician well-being.
Identifies pervasive medical 'grind culture' as a driver of severe mental health costs that disproportionately inflicts racial battle fatigue on minoritized individuals.
Frames intentional physical, spiritual, and cultural rest as a vital counter-strategy to reclaim agency, humanity, and long-term sustainability in healthcare.

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Ward et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a97e25ec562ede874ec678e https://doi.org/10.1080/10401334.2026.2723924

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September 2, 2026Teaching and Learning in Medicine0 citations

Rest as Resistance: Reconceptualizing Well-Being and Agency in Health Professions Education

Beyond the Grind: “Rest is Resistance” in Health Professions Education

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Authors

MWMaranda C. Ward PLPaula Latortue-Albino RBRuth Bueter

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Overview

Conceptual framework highlights intentional rest as structural self-preservation in health professions education, suggesting systemic culture changes to protect minoritized clinicians.

Key Points

To introduce the 'Rest is Resistance' framework into health professions education to challenge grind culture and address racial battle fatigue among minoritized clinicians and trainees.
Application of Tricia Hersey's 'Rest is Resistance' framework to academic medicine using the lived experiences of minoritized health professions educators.
Qualitative structural analysis of academic productivity expectations, capitalism, and systemic inequities affecting clinician well-being.
Identifies pervasive medical 'grind culture' as a driver of severe mental health costs that disproportionately inflicts racial battle fatigue on minoritized individuals.
Frames intentional physical, spiritual, and cultural rest as a vital counter-strategy to reclaim agency, humanity, and long-term sustainability in healthcare.

Cite This Study

Ward et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a97e25ec562ede874ec678e https://doi.org/10.1080/10401334.2026.2723924

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