Resident Wellness Resources
The Latest in Well-Being
- What’s Doctor Burnout Costing America? – NPR
- Well-Being Playbook: A Guide for Hospital and Health System Leaders – AHA
- Suicide Prevention in University Settings – Edge for Scholars
- Experts share facts about physician suicide – Reuters
- Physicians’ Goodness and Guilt—Emotional Challenges of Practicing Medicine – JAMA Internal Medicine
- Music may be the best medicine for medical professionals – Associated Press
- It’s time to light a fire to stop physician burnout, starting with better EHRs – FierceHealthcare
- Employee Wellness Programs Yield Little Benefit, Study Shows – New York Times
- Death by a Thousand Clicks: Where Electronic Health Records Went Wrong – Fortune
- Beyond burnout: The real problem facing doctors is moral injury – Medical Economics
- Chief wellness officer role at the center of effort to reduce burnout – Modern Healthcare
- Is Physician Burnout on the Decline? – American Academy of Family Physicians
- Burnout among physicians drops but depression on the rise, AMA survey finds – Modern Healthcare
- AAMC Analysis in Brief: Burnout Among U.S. Medical School Faculty – AAMC
- AMA calls for continued investment in effort to reduce burnout – AMA
- Changes in Burnout and Satisfaction With Work-Life Integration in Physicians and the General US Working Population Between 2011 and 2017 – Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Getting Help
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
- Institutions can implement the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Interactive Screening Program (ISP), an online program utilized by mental health services.
- Preventing Physician Distress and Suicide – an online module from the AMA’s Steps Forward initiative (0.5 CME credits)
- Validated Instruments to Assess Work-Related Dimensions of Well-Being from the National Academy of Medicine’s Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience.
Featured
- AAMC Analysis in Brief: Burnout Among U.S. Medical School Faculty – AAMC
- Medical Student Well-Being – AAMC
- To Care Is Human — Collectively Confronting the Clinician-Burnout Crisis – The New England Journal of Medicine
- A Doctor’s Dozen: Twelve Strategies for Personal Health and a Culture of Wellness – Catherine Florio Pipas
- Association Between Physician Burnout and Patient Safety, Professionalism, and Patient Satisfaction – A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – JAMA Internal Medicine
- Charter on Physician Well-being – JAMA (April 17, 2018)
- Clinician Well-Being Knowledge Hub – National Academy of Medicine (2018)
- Physician Burnout in the Electronic Health Record Era: Are We Ignoring the Real Cause? – Annals of Internal Medicine (May 8, 2018)
- Addressing Clinician Well-Being – AAMC President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, MD, NAM President Victor J. Dzau, MD, and ACGME CEO Thomas J. Nasca, MD (2018)
- Combating Clinician Burnout with Community-Building – NEJM Catalyst (July 31, 2018)
- Physician Burnout, Well-being, and Work Unit Safety Grades in Relationship to Reported Medical Errors – Mayo Clinic Proceedings (July 9, 2018)
- Learning Environment and Its Effect on Learner Wellness and Resilience – Academic Medicine (July 11, 2018)
- Back to Bedside Projects Energize Residents, Improving Care – AAMCNews (May 8, 2018)
- Why medicine leads the professions in suicide, and what we can do about it – The Conversation (May 24, 2018)
- Finding the Why, Changing the How: Improving Mental Health of Medical Students, Residents, and Physicians – Academic Medicine (September 2016)
- “Make the Difference: Preventing Medical Trainee Suicide” (video)
Mayo Clinic and the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention explain how health care professionals can recognize signs of depression in their colleagues and take action to prevent suicide. - 10 Facts About Physician Suicide and Mental Health
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention presents 10 important facts concerning physician suicide and mental health. - Steps Forward
A collection of modules from the AMA on well-being. - Getting to Inbox Zero (video)
Petra Lewis, MD, Professor of Radiology and OBGYN at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, presents a video on how to avoid being overwhelmed by email by effectively managing your inbox. - Task Managers (video)
Petra Lewis, MD, also describes how to manage numerous tasks effectively by using task managers.
Conferences, Programs, and Courses
Summit on Promoting Well-Being and Resilience in Healthcare Providers
Learning Resources for Leading: Top Skills, Attributes, and Behaviors Critical for Success
Stanford House Staff Wellness Survey, Courtesy of Stanford Medicine and WellMD
Being a Resilient Leader
Faculty Training in Mind-Body Medicine
Links to individual strategies to address burnout and promote resiliency:
- http://www.black-bile.com/ – a website dedicated to physicians suffering from depression, and those who care about them.
- http://www.ishiprograms.org/about/- The Institute for the Study of Health and Illness (ISHI) provides education and support for health professionals who aspire to practice a medicine of service, human connection, and compassionate healing
- http://ephysicianhealth.com/ – The world’s first comprehensive, online physician health and wellness resource that helps physicians, residents, and medical students be resilient in their professional and personal lives.
- https://www.cma.ca/En/Pages/physician-health-wellness.aspx – Description of the Canadian Physician Health Institute with links to many resources related to physician health and wellness.
- http://scpmgphysicianwellness.kaiserpermanente.org/ – Kaiser program for Physician Wellness
- http://cmbm.org/ – Center for Mind-Body Medicine – access to evidence-based strategies for relieving stress and promoting wellness
- https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/family-medicine/mindful-practice.aspx – University of Rochester site on mindful practice
- https://www.bhwellness.org/toolkits/Work-and-Well-Being-Toolkit-for-Physicians.pdf – University of Colorado toolkit for promoting well-being for physicians
- http://wellmed.stanford.edu/ – Stanford School of Medicine website to promote physician health and resiliency
- http://www.thehappymd.com/ – Dike Drummond’s website abotu physician burnout and solutions
- https://www.mindandlife.org/ – home page of Mind & Life Institute, an institute committed to integrating science and contemplative practice. Many excellent resources available
Links to resources for institutional strategies to promote resilience and reduce burnout:
- https://www.stepsforward.org/modules/physician-wellness – AMA Steps Forward
- https://www.aha.org/research/cor/content/creating-a-culture-of-health.pdf – American Hospital Association call to action, creating a culture of health
- https://www.acponline.org/system/files/documents/about_acp/chapters/ut/16mtg/lopez.pdf – Mark Linzer’s slides on ACP website
- http://residentdoctors.ca/wellness/resiliency – Resident Doctors of Canada, Resiliency Training Website
TED Talks:
- https://www.ted.com/speakers/atul_gawande_1 – Atul Gawande: How We Heal Medicine
- https://www.ted.com/speakers/shawn_achor – Shawn Achor: The Happy Secret to Better Work
- https://www.red.com/speakers/brian_goldman – Brian Goldman: Doctors make mistakes
- http://www.tedmed.com/speakers/show?id=526396 – Suzie Brown: Concert of melody & medicine
Books:
- Firth-Cozens J. How to Survive in Medicine: Personally and Professionally. 2013.
- Lipsenthal L. Find Balance in a Medical life. 2007.
- Skovholt TM. The Resilient Practitioner: Burnout Prevention and Self-Care strategies for counselors, therapists, teachers, and health professionals. 2011.
- Sotile WM and Sotile MO. The Resilient Physician: Effective Emotional Management for Doctors and their Medical Organizations. 2002.
- Van Dernoont Lipsky L. Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others. 2009.
Articles:
- Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Symposium on Physician Well-Being: Summary and Proposal to the ACGME Board of Directors. November 2015. Available athttps://www.acgme.org/Portals/0/PDFs/Symposium/Symposium_on_Physician_Well-Being_Summary_and_Proposal_Feb_2016_BOD.pdf Accessed 5/30/2016.
Podcasts:
- http://thedoctorparadox.com/podcast-2/ – The Doctor Paradox is a podcast series addressing “why despite having incredibly meaningful jobs, doctors are increasingly unhappy in their work”
- http://fhs.mcmaster.ca/on-fire/ “Souls on Fire: Narratives that Inspire” produced by McMaster Institute for Innovation and Excellence in Teaching and Learning
