Resources

Articles and Resources

The Physicians Foundation: 2023 Survey of America’s Current and Future Physicians (released September 2023)

Vital Signs LifeBridge Nebraska Success Story: Supporting Physicians Through Peer Coaching

Suicide Prevention: Evidence Informed Interventions for the Healthcare Workforce American Hospital Association

Confidential Care to Support Physician Health and Wellness AMA Advocacy Resource Center

Healthcare Professionals and Mental Health Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation

Critical Care Burnout: Systemic Changes Needed, Not Just Self Care Tori Rodriguez, Pulmonology Advisor

A boost for doctors’ well-being? Bring back the physician lounge AMA Moving Medicine

“What makes doctors great also drives burnout: A double-edged sword.” Tait Shanafelt, MD

National Academy of Medicine: Clinician Well-Being COVID-19 Resource Page

Videos and Webinars

NABHO: Behavioral Health Matters! Podcast

Physician burnout: It’s not a resiliency deficit: Presented by Dr. Colin West, MD at Mayo Clinic, physician experts will discuss efforts that health care organization leaders can do to address system issues to reduce burnout and promote physician wellbeing.

Building well-being into culture: The Sanford clinician experience: In this webinar, the co-directors of their clinician experience office, Dr. Heather Spies and Aaste Campbell, will share how Sanford‘s clinicians are supported to help optimize work-life integration across the entire spectrum of their careers.

5 Chairs 5 Choices: We spend about eighty percent of our day at work, the rest is at home. If we have a bad day at work we are likely to take that negativity home with us and vice versa. The 5 Chairs is a powerful and systematic method which helps us master our own behaviors and manage the behaviors of others. To be a good leader is to contribute to the success and happiness of everyone, at work and at home, on a conscious level.

The Happiness Advantage: Linking Positive Brains to Performance: Shawn Achor says that most modern research focuses on the average, but that “if we focus on the average, we will remain merely average.” He wants to study the positive outliers, and learn how not only to bring people up to the average, but to move the entire average up.

Emotional First Aid: We’ll go to the doctor when we feel physical pain. So why don’t we see a health professional when we feel emotional pain: guilt, loss, loneliness? Watch this TED talk where Guy Winch makes a compelling case to practice emotional hygiene — taking care of our emotions, our minds, with the same diligence we take care of our bodies.