This episode of the American Medical Association’s Making the Rounds podcast features Dr. John P. Fogarty, dean of the Florida State University College of Medicine. Dr. Fogarty shares how a medical student suicide led to greater efforts to create a wellness-promoting culture.
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Psychologically safe learning Establishing a wellness mindset Organizational wellness
This web page from the Fatigue Risk Management Task Force provides residents and educators with resources to address fatigue: a workplace health and safety issue that can affect patient safety. The main principles discussed on this page are acknowledge, act and adapt.
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Establishing a wellness mindset Policies, standards and best practices
This infographic from Resident Doctors of Canada offers advice for wellness during residency, looking at areas such as sleep, nutrition and stress reduction. Tips and tricks include getting adequate sleep before anticipated sleep loss, scheduling nutrition breaks throughout the workday and maintaining contact with social support networks.
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Fostering self-determination, motivation and resilience can play a major role in learning environments that support the well-being of medical students. This research paper examines the needs of medical students through the lens of self-determination theory to foster supportive learning environments.
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Psychologically safe learning Establishing a wellness mindset Relationships Resilience
Addressing the culture of medicine to create a culture of wellness begins with eliminating negating/diminishing language and promoting pro-wellness language. This infographic by Resident Doctors of Canada provides examples of how pro-wellness language helps medical students and professionals feel supported and thankful, and creates a sense of solidarity.
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Establishing a wellness mindset Psychologically safe learning
This article summarizes the American Medical Association’s Making the Rounds podcast featuring Dr. John P. Fogarty, dean of the Florida State University (FSU) College of Medicine. In the podcast, Dr. Fogarty shares how the tragic event of a medical student suicide led the FSU Wellness Committee to start building a wellness-promoting culture.
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Psychologically safe learning Establishing a wellness mindset Organizational wellness
The physician well-being module of Health Force Ontario’s Transition into Practice Services (TiPS) program highlights well-being resources available to physicians in Ontario. Resources include the Ontario Medical Association’s physician health program, the Canadian Medical Protective Association’s physician wellness resources, and the Professional Association of Residents of Ontario’s resident wellness events and assistance.
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The Ontario Medical Students Association’s wellness blog provides information and resources to help support students’ health and well-being. The blog also offers opportunities for dialogue through comments and blog post submissions.
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The University of Toronto's Temerty Faculty of Medicine provides wellness resources for its faculty. These include direct support during difficult times, as well as day-to-day support in areas such as groceries, housing and childcare.
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The faculty wellness program is a standing program within the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Medicine. Its aim is to promote the health and well-being of faculty and learners in the Faculty of Medicine.
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In this statement, the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians describes some of the issues residents face during training, along with proposed solutions to improve health and wellness among residents.
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Psychologically safe learning Establishing a wellness mindset Mentorship in health care Career transitions
Based on information provided at the 2018 International Conference on Physician Health, this article looks at the issues of burnout and depression among medical learners. It provides suggestions on how to improve wellness for medical students, including making wellness a core competency.
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Psychologically safe learning Establishing a wellness mindset Burnout Stress Depression