Wellness Resources for Healthcare Providers

• Virus Anxiety is a toolkit platform for fears and anxiety associated with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak including meditation, isolation, financial concern, anxiety, finding support, and advice for parents.
• American Psychological Association provides a series of resources for newly remote workers, employers, those seeking teletherapy, and those looking for reliable sources of information regarding COVID-19.
• The Center for Disease Control (CDC) is providing information and resources on management of anxiety and stress, particularly for groups such as parents, responders and healthcare providers, and those released from quarantine.
• Find Help is an simple online tool to help find food assistance, assistance paying bills, and other free or reduced-cost programs that help those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Crisis Text Line is available 24/7 by texting TALK to 741741.
• IMAlive is a confidential and secure chat line supporting those in crisis.
• Lifeline Crisis Chat is available 24/7 providing online emotional support, crisis intervention, and suicide prevention services.
• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is available 24/7 by calling 1(800)-273-8255 (TALK). National Suicide Prevention Lifeline provides support to those in suicidal crisis or emotional distress.
• SAMHSA’s National Helpline is available 24/7 by calling 1(800)-22-4357 (HELP), providing support for circumstances related to substance abuse and related depression, burnout, and suicide.

• The American Medical Association provides a series of free online continuing medical education (CME) courses including information on resiliency, distress, and burnout in chapters, videos, and podcasts. The courses allow physicians and healthcare providers to earn up to 11.5 CME total at no cost.
• Medscape provides free online modules for continuing medical education (CME) on physician wellness. To earn credit, create a Medscape account and pass a short quiz at the end of each module.

Smartphone Applications

• “Feeling Anxious Right Now? These Therapy Apps Can Help You Manage Your Mental Health” is a journal article by FastCompany on smartphone apps to help find therapy and other mental health resources.
• Headspace is a wellness app focused on mindfulness, meditation, and wellbeing exercises. Headspace is offering Headspace Plus free for US healthcare professionals through 2020. To redeem, use your National Provider Identifier (NPI) and email address.
• Downdog is an app that creates a unique experience for practicing yoga, meditation and workouts. Downdog is free for all healthcare workers through July 1, 2021. To register, click on the link and fill out the information required.

Podcasts for Finding Meaning in Medicine

• Fascinating Clinical Stories is a medical podcast by Dr. Adam Rodman about fascinating stories in clinical medicine.
• The Doctor Paradox is an iTunes podcast series is designed to be an antidote to clinician burnout with interviews exploring how clinicians have maintained their enthusiasm working either in traditional or non-traditional roles.
• Narrative Medicine Rounds from Columbia University are lectures presented by scholars, clinicians, and writers engaged in work at the interface between narrative and health care.
• The Burnout Doctor Podcast is a podcast to help pharmacists and healthcare professionals reset burnout and curate a happier life. A podcast workbook is also available for free download.
• The Joy Of Medicine - On Call Podcast is a podcast aimed at exploring the many paths physicians take to bring joy into their practice of medicine and promoting physician wellness by focusing on topics of mindfulness, burnout, stress management, and joy.

10 Ted Talks for Burnout

• All it Takes is 10 Mindful Minutes
• Are You Human?
• Flow, the Secret to Happiness
• How to Make Stress Your Friend
• How to Succeed? Get More Sleep
• The Art of Stillness
• The Happy Secret to Better Work
• The Power of Time off
• Your Elusive Creative Genius

• AMA Physician Burnout Questionnaire is a short 12 question survey to quantify signs of burnout and a need to effect change.
• Professional Quality of Life Sale (PROQOL) Questionnaire is a 30 question survey to quantify compassion satisfaction, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress in healthcare providers.
• Resilience Building Plan Worksheet is a activity worksheet to identify strategies for overcoming burnout and promoting wellness.
• Work & Wellbeing Toolkit is a toolkit activity to assess burnout and provide strategies and worksheets for promoting wellness for healthcare providers.

Burnout

• Burnout: The Cost of Caring, Christina Maslach
• Healing Physician Burnout: Diagnosing, Preventing, and Treating, Quint Studer
• Preventing Physician Burnout: Curing the Chaos and Returning Joy to the Practice of Medicine, Paul DeChant MD, MBD, Diane W. Shannon, MD, MPH
• Physician Burnout A Guide To Recognition and Recovery, Tom Murphy, MD
• Stop Physician Burnout: What to Do When Working Harder Isn’t Working, Dike Drummond, MD
• The Resilient Practitioner: Burnout Prevention and Self-Care Strategies for Counselors, Therapists, Teachers, and Health Professionals, Thomas Skovholt
• The Truth About Burnout: How Organizations Cause Personal Stress and What to Do About It, Christina Maslach, Michael P. Leiter

Mindfulness

• Healthy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine, Saki Santorelli
• Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment and Your Life, Jon Kabat-Zinn PhD
• Mindful Therapy: A Guide for Therapists and Helping Professionals, Thomas Bien, PhD
• One-Moment Meditation: Stillness for People on the Go, Martin Boroson
• Teaching Mindfulness: A Practical Guide for Clinicians and Educators, Donald McCown, Diana Reibel, Marc Micozzi
• The Art and Science of Mindfulness: Integrating Mindfulness into Psychology and the Helping Professions, Shauna Shapiro, PhD, Linda Carlson and Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD
• The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician’s Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration, Daniel Siegel, MD

Resilience

• Finding a Balance in a Medical Life, Lee Lipsenthal, MD
• How to Survive in Medicine: Personally and Professionally, Jenny Firth-Cozens
• Staying Human During Residency Training: How to Survive and Thrive After Medical School, Alan Peterkin, MD
• The Resilient Physician: Effective Emotional Management for Doctors and Their Medical Organizations, Wayne Sotile and Mary Sotile

Stress

• Overcoming Secondary Stress in Medical and Nursing Practice: A Guide to Professional Resilience and Personal Well-Being, Robert Wicks

Journal Articles

• Resident & Student Health is an AMA webpage with dozens of articles focused on the burnout and wellbeing of medical students, residents, and fellows.
• “‘Back to the Bedside:’ Residents’ and Fellows’ Perspectives on Finding Meaning in Work”
• “Confessions of Physicians: What Systemic Reporting Does Not Uncover”
• “Developing Emotional Intelligence in the Clinical Learning Environment: A Case Study in Cultural Transformation”
• “Failure in Residency Education: Lessons Learned From Harry Potter, Oprah Winfrey, and the Marigold Hotel”
• “In the “Dog Days” of Training, Find Your Well of Motivation, and Keep Going Back”
• “Psychotherapist Perspectives on Resident Wellness”
• “Ten Commandments of Physician Wellness”
• “Wellness Opportunities: Sometimes It Is ‘Just Time Off’”

Journal Articles

• “Assessment of Physician Well-being, Part One: Burnout and Other Negative States”
• “Burnout and Wellness: Another Answer”
• “Expanding the Conversation on Burnout Through Conceptions of Role Strain and Role Conflict”
• “The Burnout Conundrum: Nature Versus Nurture?”
• “The Correlation of Stress in Residency With Future Stress and Burnout: A 10-Year Prospective Cohort Study”

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