H.E.A.L. RESOURCES

Informational Podcasts

• How to succeed? Get more sleep talks about the power of a good night’s sleep to increase productivity, happiness, and smarter decision-making.
• The real reason why we are tired and what to do about it informs the audience of why we are chronically tired despite getting the requisite amount of sleep and the other 6 types of rest available to us
• Why Is It Essential To Make Time For Sleep

Journal Articles

• Healthcare Worker Fatigue: Current Strategies for Prevention
• Fatigue and Patient Safety

CME Learning Modules

• Physician Well-Being: Protect Against Burnout and Encourage Self Care

Informational Podcasts

• Healing the Healers - Physician Mental Health talks about physicians are more likely to die by suicide than individuals in any other career and how as a society, we can foster a healthy atmosphere for providers.
• The mental health benefits of storytelling for healthcare workers discusses the importance of sharing stories and how empowering it is to build a connection with other people around us.

Journal Articles

• Mental illness-related stigma in healthcare: Barriers to access and care and evidence-based solutions
• Suffering in Silence: Mental Health Stigma and Physicians’ Licensing Fear
• Professional Stigma of Mental Health Issues: Physicians Are Both the Cause and Solution

CME Learning Modules

• Peer Support Programs for Physicians: Mitigate the Effects of Emotional Stressors Through Peer Support

Informational Podcasts

All it Takes is 10 Mindful Minutes describes the transformative power of refreshing your mind for 10 minutes a day and by being mindful and experiencing the present.

How to Turn Off Work Thoughts During Your Free Time teaches individuals how to stop worrying about tomorrow’s task with three simple techniques aimed to help everyone truly relax and recharge after work.

Journal Articles

Physician Burnout: Contributors, Consequences and Solutions

Factors Related to Physician Burnout and Its Consequences: A Review

Burnout Self-Test Maslach Burnout Inventory (MB)

CME Learning Modules

Physician Burnout: Improve Physician Satisfaction and Patient Outcomes

Informational Podcasts & Fact Sheets

• Patient Safety: Should Zero be the Goal reflects on the conflict between aiming for zero harm events, maintaining professionalism and avoiding provider burnout
• World Health Organization Patient Safety Fact Sheet

Journal Articles

• System Changes to Improve Patient Safety
• Healthcare Professional’s Perception of Patient Safety Measured by the Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture
• System Strategies to Improve Patient Safety and Error Prevention

CME Learning Modules

• Recognizing a Physician’s Role in Patient Safety

Informational Podcasts & Fact Sheets

• TED Talk: Got a meeting? Take a walk talks about the benefits of having walking meetings to enjoy fresh air, improve productivity and boost energy level
• NPR: Feeling Anxious? Here’s a Quick Tool To Center Your Soul explains the importance of mindfulness meditation and how to practice it
• World Health Organization Physical Activity Sheet

Journal Articles

• Types of Meditation Techniques
• Just a few Minutes of Meditation May Reduce Stress
• Exercise is meditation: a call to action for physicians to assess and prescribe exercise

Informational Podcasts & Fact Sheets

• AOFAS Keynote Presentation: Physician Suicide Prevention was presented by Dr. Pamela Wible in 2020 as she discusses the prevention of physician suicide and ways individuals, and institutions can prevent these deaths.
• ACGME 10 Facts About Physician Suicide and Mental Health provides detailed statistics about physician suicide and mental health

Journal Articles

• PHQ-9 Questionnaire can be used to assess severity of depression
• The Suicide Prevention and Awareness Program
• Physician Suicide Prevention and the Ethics and Role of a Healing Community
• 2021 Survery of America's Physicians COVID-19 Impact Edition: A Year Later

CME Learning Modules

• Identifying and Responding to Suicide Risk

Informational Podcasts & Fact Sheets

• NPR: Some Health Workers Suffering From Addiction Steal Drugs Meant For Patients emphasizes the rising concern that medical professionals are stealing powerful opioid medications meant for their patients

• NPR: Amid Rural Doctor Shortage, Dozens Of Medical Workers Charged in Opioid Crackdown talks about the affect that substance abuse has on doctors and their patients

Journal Articles

• Chemical Dependency and the Physician
• Substance Use Among Physicians and Medical Students
• Identifying an Impaired Physician

CME Learning Modules

• Changing Language to Change Care: Stigma and Substance Use Disorder

Definitions

• Healthcare Quality

• Quality Improvement

Informational Podcasts & Fact Sheets

• NAHQ: High Healthcare Spending Doesn’t Equate to High Quality Care shares insights on value-based health reform and the important role workforce development will play in resolving healthcare challenges

• TedTalks: Improving Healthcare: Straight from the Heart talks about the social learning that guides our behavior in institutions can be used to improve the quality of healthcare in our hospitals

• WHO: Quality of care

Journal Articles

• NPR: What Kills 5 Million People A Year? It’s Not Just Disease

• Quality Improvement into practice

• Healthcare Quality: A Concept Analysis

CME Learning Modules

• Essentials of Quality Improvement

Informational Podcasts & Fact Sheets

• HOI: 200% Hand Hygiene Campaign

• TedTalk: Hand Hygiene: More Time Can Slip Through Your Fingers reveals the significant limitations of current hand-hygiene methods, the landscape of hospital-acquired infections, and a call to action to reject the status quo and prioritize innovation hand hygiene.

• 5 Second Rule: Proper PPE is Always in Fashion discusses what PPE is, the different types of equipment available, and where PPE falls under the “Hierarchy of Controls

Journal Articles

• How Does Infection Prevention Fit Into a Safety Program?

• Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs)

• Infection Control

CME Learning Modules

• Infection Control Starts Here
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Informational Podcasts & Fact Sheets

• Lack of Diversity in Health Care: A Health Disparity

• Improving Diversity in the Field of Orthopedics

• Harvard Implicit Association Test

Journal Articles

• Making the Case (Again) for Gender Equity

• The Importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Orthopedic Research

• 5 Ways to Boost Diversity in the Medical Community

CME Learning Modules

• Prioritizing Equity: Getting to Justice in Education

Informational Podcasts & Fact Sheets

• Countering the Opioid Crisis: Time to Act Podcast

• Ted-Ed: What causes opioids addiction and why is it so tough to combat?

• Opioid Stewardship Initiative and Narcan Distribution Program

Journal Articles

• Collaborating to Combat the Opioid Crisis

• How orthopedic surgeons can impact opioid use and dependence in shoulder arthroplasty

• 2021 ACGME Opioid Congress Proceedings

CME Learning Modules

• Using Opioids Safely: Practical Guidance for Pain Management

Informational Podcasts & Fact Sheets

• NPR: What Makes A Leader?

• TEDx: 5 Pillars of Effective Leadership

• NPR: Leadership At Work Is An Art Form. Here’s How To Practice It

Journal Articles

• Leaders Make the Future

• How To Lead Up in Your Organization

• Leadership Effectiveness Measurement and Its Effect On Organization Outcomes

CME Learning Modules

• 2021 Physician Leadership Journal Club: Power and Influence

Informational Podcasts & Fact Sheets

• NPR: Tips on How to Shake the Feeling that You’re an Impostor
• TEDx: Impostor Syndrome
• Impostor Syndrome: Clance IP Scale

Journal Articles

• How to Overcome Impostor Phenomenon
• Doctor Who?
• Prevalence, Predictor, and Treatments of Impostor Syndrome

CME Learning Modules

• Appreciative Inquiry Principles: Ask “What Went Well” to Foster Positive Organizational Culture