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Objective: To advance well-being among IAFP member physicians by sharing educational resources and building community.
We discuss the benefits of mindfulness, challenges to practicing it, and ways we can incorporate small moments of mindfulness throughout our day (prior to entering a patient room, during lunch, when we feel ourselves being pulled in multiple directions)
Health Challenge #1: Practice Mindfulness Practice 10 minutes of mindfulness every day for 30 days. Check out our ideas and share your own if you'd like!
Prior to starting the Health Challenge above, we encourage you to complete this brief Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale to get a baseline of your perceived mindfulness at baseline and then reassess after 30 days of your mindfulness practice. Higher scores are associated with higher perceived mindfulness.
Burnout, by definition, is a physical or mental collapse caused by overwork or stress. Sadly, physicians are facing burnout at an alarming rate and in direct proportion to the increasing complexities of today's health care environment. This page will serve as an ongoing, expanding resource depository for our members. If you have any resources that you'd like to share on this page, please e-mail them to Ginnie Flynn along with the link to the information. If you have PDF or other content that you'd like to post, we require express written permission of the author.
Resources provided by IAFP members
Drummond, D. The Burnout Prevention Matrix.
“BurnoutProof” mobile apps