Resource topic: Effects on Clinician Health and Well-Being
Physician Well-being: A Critical Deficiency in Resilience Education and Training

The following article, published in Academic Psychiatry, discusses the factors which contribute to distress experienced by physicians, such as isolation,...

Article
Primary Prevention for Future Doctors: Promoting Well-Being in Trainees

In this article, the author discusses a study on the health and well-being of medical students of Netherlands. He comments that physicians need to maintain their...

Article
Re-Enchanting Medicine

The author of the following perspective piece discusses the disenchantment of medical practice, which often leads to physicians feeling symptoms of burnout. He...

Personal Stories
Red Capes and Physician Resilience.

Many physicians seem to think they possess otherworldly strength, at least with respect to their resilience to stress and burnout. This article describes a study...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
Relationship of a Physician’s Well-Being to Interactions with Patients: Practices of the Highest Performing Physicians on the Art of Medicine Patient Survey

The following study seeks to understand what physicians do to most satisfy their patients, and how they maintain a state of well-being in their clinical practices....

Personal Stories
When Your Favorite Patient Relapses: Physician Grief and Well-Being in the Practice of Oncology

The following article details one physician's personal experience seeing his patient relapse, and discusses the grieving process of physicians. The experience...

Article
Well-being Programs for Physicians and the Role of the “Doctors’ Mess”

The following article demonstrates the clinical effectiveness of a variety of physician well-being courses, and discusses the concept of the "doctors' mess". The...

Article
The Unique Environmental Influences of Acute Care Settings on Patient and Physician Well-Being: A Call to Action

This letter to the editor of The Journal of Emergency Medicine discusses the prevalence of clinician burnout due to crowding and workflow congestion. Future...

Opinion Piece/Short Communication
A Physician’s Suffering – Facing Depression as a Trainee

Published in JAMA, this perspective piece by Colleen M. Farrell details her own experience with depression during her fourth year of medical school. Despite...

Personal Stories
What’s Missing in the Physician Burnout Dialogue? Equity

In the following video from the 2018 Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting, Jane van Dis, MD, discusses the research she's done about how gender inequity in the...

Video