Resources
1. Web Resources for Staff Wellness
- The Basics: Strategies for coping with stress and building personal resilience for physicians
- Web Resources for Staff Wellness (University of New Mexico)
- Podcast series: Medical Professionals Empowerment Program (MedPEP)
- Minding the Workplace: Tips for employees
- Antidepressant skills at work
- The Road to Resilience - APA.org
- Steps to deal with Stress - HealthScotland.com
- "New Article: Hiding in plain sight: Men's mental health" - submitted by Dr Kyle Garrett
- Men's Mental Health
- Resilience Podcast
- 3 good things exercise - https://youtu.be/ZOGAp9dw8Ac
- The Science of Wellbeing offered by Yale University (taught by Laurie Santos) - FREE course on Coursera.org!
- Social Isolation & Social Media Podcast
- Mindfulness Resources
- Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I)
- Why we need play (bewell.standford.edu)
- Nutrition - Steps to A Healthier You(AHS)
- Physical Activity Toolkit - A guide for AHS Employees
- Manage your emotions (YourLearningYourWay AHS)
- Emotional Warning Signs (YourLearningYourWay AHS)
- Wellness connection: Empowering through support and knowledge
- A variety of virtual group support sessions, led by trained facilitators and offered in different formats and approaches, are available each week
- Culture change: How one hospital scaled up their wellness program during COVID-19 (read the article)
- Psychological First Aid (World Health Organization)
- Executive Leadership and Physician Well-being: Nine Organizational Strategies to Promote Engagement and Reduce Burnout (Mayo Clinic)
- Fatigue - What is it? (Alberta Health Services)
- "Fried: Why You Burn Out and How to Revive" by Joan Borysenko
- Trauma informed practice (Alberta Health Services)
- Physician Wellness Hub (Canadian Medical Association)
- Physician Wellness (Canadian Anesthesiologist Society)
- Wellbeing (UK Intensive Care Society)
- World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists: Campaign for occupational wellbeing on World Anaesthesia Day 16 October
- Blood and Body Fluid Exposure/ What do you do after an occupational exposure? (Alberta Health Services)
- Helping a Colleague with Grief - CMA
- Supporting team members when grieving - AHS
- How do I support someone who may be struggling - AHS
- SUPPORTING TEAM MEMBERS GRIEVING COVID-19 RELATED LOSSES - AHS
2. PFSP provides resources and/or referral to therapy in the following areas:
- Intimate partner relationship issues
The Wellbeing of Physician Relationships
Medical Marriage - Tips for making yours better
The well being of medical relationships
- Family Therapy
- Assistance with dependant children suffering from learning or behavioural difficulties
- Career, educational and workplace concerns that are impacting our health
- Dealing with adverse events
Disclosing harm from health care delivery
Canadian Medical Protective Agency (CMPA) homepage
- Stress, anxiety, other mental health issues and psychiatric disorders (e.g. depression, manic-depression, PTSD, ADHD, etc)
- Burnout - Try the ' BMA Doctors for Doctors Burnout Questionnaire'
- Substance Use disorder and behavioural addictions
PFSP - What is Addiction (video)
PFSP - Seeking Help with Addiction (video)
Am I alcohol dependant? Try this self-assessment tool
Understanding substance use disorder in physicians (multi-media blog post)
- Concern for a colleague
- And more....
3. Suicide Prevention
- Alberta Medical Association: I need help now
- 24 hr City of Edmonton Distress line: 780-482-4357
- When a colleague dies: growing through tragedy
- PFSP Perspectives: Shining a light on physician suicide
- Let's talk physician suicide (Well Doc Alberta)
- Why Physicians Die by Suicide (Paperback - amazon.com)
- Suicide Infographic (suicideinfo.ca)
- Centre for Suicide Prevention
4. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans & Queer identified People and Mental Health
5. Well Doc Alberta
6. MD financial management
7. CMPA
8. "Managing Compassion Fatigue is an Organizational Responsibility" by Dr. Sharron Spicer
9. Conferences
- International Conference on Physician Health, Apr. 28-30, 2021 : get details
- Stanford Medicine WellMD Get Connected classes/courses/CME: more information
- Canadian Women in Medicine Annual Conference, June 4-6, 2020: more information
- GLMA (Gay & Lesbian Medical Association) Annual Conference, Sep. 22-25, 2021: more information
- Women in Anesthesiology Conference: https://www.womeninanesthesiology.org/
10. Second victim
- “A healthcare professional who has experienced a significant personal or
professional impact as a result of a patient safety incident can be referred to as a second
victim”
11. Organizational Leaders in Physician Wellness
- AHS Physician Diversity, Wellness and Leadership Development - Medical Staff
- Office of Advocacy and Wellbeing (University of Alberta FoMD)