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Physician Well-being Member Interest Group

Co-Chairs: Ellen S. Brull, MD and Michael Caçoilo, MD

Objective: To advance well-being among IAFP member physicians by sharing educational resources and building community.

JOIN THEM FOR THEIR NEXT EVENT OPEN TO ALL:
Wednesday, October 22 from 8:15-9:00 p.m.

Physician Well-being MIG presents: Conducting Provider Well-Being Check-Ins to Promote Retention

Register in advance for this meeting:

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

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 (see page 25 of A Doctor's Dozen). Join us in committing to practice 10 minutes of mindfulness every day for 30 days. Some of us have shared on the MIG google drive how we plan to incorporate mindfulness into our daily routines - 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 (also located on the MIG google drive) 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.

Physician Well-being Resources

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.

From the AAFP