Individual Strategies – Clinician Well-Being Knowledge Hub

MINDBODYSTRONG Program

NAM — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:13:52 +0000

MINDBODYSTRONG is a cognitive behavioral skills building (CBSB) program that provides a theory-based approach to improve mental health, healthy lifestyle beliefs and behaviors, and job satisfaction in clinicians.

PeerRxMed

NAM — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 15:08:36 +0000

A free online platform to support clinicians provide peer to peer support by signing up with a buddy and receiving weekly nudges to check-in with each other, along with weekly supportive thoughts for contemplation or conversation during the time of stress.

Psychological PPE: Promote Health Care Workforce Mental Health and Well-Being

NAM — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 15:05:27 +0000

Evidence-based “psychological PPE” recommendations for use by staff providing care during the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID-19: Stress and Coping Resources

NAM — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 15:03:53 +0000

The strategies and resources on this page intend to manage personal mental wellbeing, and the mental well-being of your health care providers during the pandemic or any other crisis.

Peer Support Programs for Physicians

NAM — Mon, 13 Dec 2021 14:58:43 +0000

This module offers five steps to build the foundation for a peer support system within an organization.

Guidebook for Promoting Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic

NAM — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 19:06:57 +0000

The following guidebook, published by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, provides a comprehensive approach to promoting well-being during the COVID-19 Pandemic. It contains crisis strategies for planning and preparation before a surge, implementing a crisis management plan, and dealing with the aftermath of a surge and its impact on healthcare workers.

Well-Being in Residency: A Systematic Review.

NAM — Fri, 09 Aug 2019 21:01:07 +0000

Published in Journal of Graduate Medical Education, the following systematic review identifies factors associated with well-being, summarizes well-being promotion interventions, and provides a framework for future research efforts. Sleep, time away from work, and factors identified in psychological well-being research — autonomy, building of competence, and strong social relatedness — are associated with resident well-being. Moreover, perseverance is found to be predictive of well-being, and greater well-being is associated with increased empathy. Interventions focused on health and coping skills appear to improve well-being. Based on these findings, the author suggests future research should focus on factors identified in cross-sectional studies, including sleep, coping mechanisms, resident autonomy, building competence, and enhanced social relatedness.

Continuity of Care in Intensive Care Units: A Cluster Randomized Trial of Intensivist Staffing

NAM — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 16:36:30 +0000

The following study assesses the impact of weekend respite, with consequent reduction in continuity of care, for intensive care unit physicians and their patients. The primary outcome was ICU length of stay and physician burnout and secondary outcomes were hospital LOS and mortality rates. The results find that interrupted scheduling with weekend respite resulted in non-significant increases in LOS and mortality. Intensivists experienced significantly higher burnout, work–home life imbalance, and job distress working under the continuous schedule compared with intensivists working under interrupted scheduling (with weekend respite).

Development and Preliminary Evaluation of Communication Skills Training Program for Oncologists Based on Patient Preferences for Communicating Bad News

NAM — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:23:57 +0000

Published in Palliative and Supportive Care, this study develops a communication skills training (CST) workshop program based on patient preferences and evaluates preliminary effects on the objective performances of physicians and the subjective ratings of their confidence about the communication with patients. The pilot study on oncologists illustrate high satisfaction rates, improvements in confidence in communicating bad news, and decreases in emotional exhaustion scores. This pilot study suggests the CST program seems feasible and potentially effective on improving oncologists’ communication behaviors.

Prescribing Happiness: Positive Psychology and Family Medicine

NAM — Wed, 31 Jul 2019 13:44:08 +0000

The following article discusses positive psychology as a means of mental health promotion in family medicine. Themes in family medicine help improve understanding of happiness, meaning in life, character strengths, and relevant strategies to develop these ideas. The authors posit that it behooves family physicians to become familiar with and incorporate positive psychology into their practices for better health. Moreover, the article reviews examples of the work in positive psychology, including gratitude, capitalization, “satisfying,” character strengths, and learned optimism and describes potential applications of each area in medical education, physician well-being, and patient care.