Resource topic: Individual Strategies
SIGECAPS, SSRIs, and Silence — Life as a Depressed Med Student

Michael R. Rose shares his battle with depression as a medical student -- the signs and symptoms that he had trouble identifying and admitting to himself. He sheds...

Personal Stories
Website of the Week: Doctors’ Well-Being

This special issue article in BMJ Careers identifies resources and websites that offer help to physicians in the US and UK. In-person programs with Heal Thy Self...

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Teaching, Learning, and the Quest for Well-Being: Psychiatrists as Physician-Educators

With a peculiar vision, psychiatrists focus on what makes us human, what makes us suffer, and what makes us thrive; it is this vision that appears to help...

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Sustaining Family Physicians in Urban Under-Served Settings

The following study in Family Medicine identifies factors sustaining family physicians practicing in Milwaukee's under-served urban areas. Four general domains...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
A Study of the Relationship Between Resilience, Burnout and Coping Strategies in Doctors

The following cross-sectional study measures resilience, coping, and professional quality of life in doctors. The study reports on the prevalence of and association...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
A Study of the Relationship Between Resilience, Burnout and Coping Strategies in Doctors

The following cross-sectional study measures resilience, coping, and professional quality of life in doctors. The study reports on the prevalence of and association...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
Stress-Resilience Capacity of Pediatric Oncologists: a Swedish Nationwide and Population-Based Study of Motivation, Emotional Distress, and Overall Life Satisfaction

Published in Pediatric Blood Cancer, this nationwide study in Sweden explores aspects of motivation related to experience and number of patients in pediatric...

Peer-Reviewed Literature
The Royal Society of Medicine Open Section’s Medical Humanities Conference: Physician Resilience and Compassionate Practice

Published in London Journal of Primary Care, the following is a summary of the Royal Society of Medicine Open Section’s medical humanities conference. Parallels...

Briefs and Summaries
The Role of Medical Culture in the Journey to Resilience

The following article highlights retention threats of electronic medical records, external documentation required for oversight and billing, and divide between...

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Resiliency and Medicine: How to Create a Positive Energy Balance

Kelly highlights the resilience that a career in orthopedics requires. She posits many outside forces converge to increase stressors to high levels, but emphasizes...

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