Iris Mushin
M.Ed, MBA

Author and Founder

Iris Mushin is the founder of the MedRAP program, which she created and developed as an MBA candidate in 1988 while her husband was completing his surgical training at Baylor College of Medicine. Shortly thereafter, Iris published a landmark article about the MedRAP program, Developing a Resident Assistance Program: Beyond the Support Group Model in JAMA Internal Medicine. The article discussed numerous ways to support house staff by preventing problems they were likely to encounter instead of providing support after they occurred.

Iris’s goal in designing the program was to improve the well-being of medical residents and address their stress and burnout by improving their training environment, advancing their professional growth, and enhancing their effectiveness as physicians and thus hospital efficiency and patient care. Many of the young physicians she trained over the 25 years MedRAP was implemented at Baylor now hold positions of leadership in American medicine and in medical academia.

Following MedRAP’s success, the program was expanded into the Clinician Program for Resilience (CPR) to meet the needs of all healthcare trainees making similar transitions into the clinical training environment (e.g., medical students, nurses, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, and advanced practice providers) and is now referred to as MedRAP/CPR. This new program is a transformative, evidence-based approach to combating burnout and restoring resilience in the next generation of healthcare professionals.

Iris holds an MBA and an M.Ed. She currently travels extensively with several organizations on diplomatic missions around the world and is actively involved in international humanitarian work.

Books authored by Iris Mushin:

Prescription for Burnout: How to Transition Healthcare Trainees Into the Clinical Work Environment and Improve Clinician Resilience, Patient Care, and Hospital Efficiency (2025) Purchase on Amazon.

What Hurts the Physician Hurts the Patient: A Comprehensive Approach to Improving Physician Training, Professional Development and Well-Being (2018) Purchase on Amazon.

Helping Clinicians Helps Patients: A Practical Guide to Facilitate the Transition into Clinical Training (2024) “No longer in print”