Well-being in academic medicine has emerged as a critical issue facing faculty, researchers, residents, and students. The AAMC has issued a statement on clinician well-being (PDF), and participates in the National Academy of Medicine’s Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience, a network of 150 (and growing) organizations dedicated to promoting clinician well-being across all career stages and specialties. The following resources help explain and address the challenges.
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The Latest in Well-Being
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Improving the System to Support Clinician Well-being and Provide Better Patient Care - JAMA
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Data Points: Physician burnout rates vary by specialty - Modern Healthcare
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Moral injury and burnout in medicine: a year of lessons learned - STAT
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Physician burnout: Why legal and regulatory systems may need to step in - The Conversation
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Well-Being Playbook: A Guide for Hospital and Health System Leaders - AHA
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Suicide Prevention in University Settings - Edge for Scholars
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Physicians’ Goodness and Guilt—Emotional Challenges of Practicing Medicine - JAMA Internal Medicine
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It's time to light a fire to stop physician burnout, starting with better EHRs - FierceHealthcare
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Beyond burnout: The real problem facing doctors is moral injury - Medical Economics
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Chief wellness officer role at the center of effort to reduce burnout - Modern Healthcare
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Burnout among physicians drops but depression on the rise, AMA survey finds - Modern Healthcare
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AAMC Analysis in Brief: Burnout Among U.S. Medical School Faculty - AAMC
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Changes in Burnout and Satisfaction With Work-Life Integration in Physicians and the General US Working Population Between 2011 and 2017 - Mayo Clinic Proceedings
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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.
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Featured
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AAMC Analysis in Brief: Burnout Among U.S. Medical School Faculty - AAMC
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It's Not Burnout, It's Moral Injury - YouTube
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Medical Student Well-Being - AAMC
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To Care Is Human — Collectively Confronting the Clinician-Burnout Crisis - The New England Journal of Medicine
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A Doctor's Dozen: Twelve Strategies for Personal Health and a Culture of Wellness - Catherine Florio Pipas
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Association Between Physician Burnout and Patient Safety, Professionalism, and Patient Satisfaction - A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis - JAMA Internal Medicine
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Charter on Physician Well-being - JAMA (April 17, 2018)
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Clinician Well-Being Knowledge Hub - National Academy of Medicine (2018)
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Physician Burnout in the Electronic Health Record Era: Are We Ignoring the Real Cause? - Annals of Internal Medicine (May 8, 2018)
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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)
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Combating Clinician Burnout with Community-Building - NEJM Catalyst (July 31, 2018)
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Physician Burnout, Well-being, and Work Unit Safety Grades in Relationship to Reported Medical Errors - Mayo Clinic Proceedings (July 9, 2018)
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Learning Environment and Its Effect on Learner Wellness and Resilience - Academic Medicine (July 11, 2018)
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Back to Bedside Projects Energize Residents, Improving Care - AAMCNews (May 8, 2018)
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Why medicine leads the professions in suicide, and what we can do about it - The Conversation (May 24, 2018)
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Finding the Why, Changing the How: Improving Mental Health of Medical Students, Residents, and Physicians - Academic Medicine (September 2016)
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"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 HealthÂ
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention presents 10 important facts concerning physician suicide and mental health. -
Steps Forward
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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.
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Conferences, Programs, and Courses
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Summit on Promoting Well-Being and Resilience in Healthcare Providers
The Ohio State University’s health sciences colleges and the College of Social Work are hosting the Summit on Promoting Well-Being and Resilience in Healthcare Providers, which will take place Oct. 21–23, 2020.
Learning Resources for Leading: Top Skills, Attributes, and Behaviors Critical for Success
This collection of resources is intended to help department chairs develop skills in setting expectations, working effectively with colleagues, developing leadership skills, and dealing with challenging responsibilities.
Stanford House Staff Wellness Survey, Courtesy of Stanford Medicine and WellMD
This evaluation was designed by Stanford School of Medicine to "understand the state of the medical staff and their most pressing concerns, as well as to provide a vehicle for assessing pilot studies and creating evidence-based interventions."
Take the survey
Being a Resilient Leader
Being a Resilient Leader is a two-day, interactive and unique workshop that will cover what it means to be a resilient leader and how to exercise leadership to achieve desired results, sustained impact, and long-term professional engagement and personal satisfaction. You will walk away with a new framework and practical tools for navigating your most difficult leadership challenges, along with increased self-awareness, emotional intelligence, and commitment.
Faculty Training in Mind-Body Medicine
Faculty Training in Mind-Body Medicine is an experiential program provides faculty at health professional schools with the training, tools, and strategic thinking necessary to implement mind-body medicine skills groups in their institutions.