Ensuring Clinician Well-Being in an Age of Uncertainty: Meeting #8

The National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience hosted a virtual meeting, Ensuring Clinician Well-Being in an Age of Uncertainty: Emerging Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic and a Systems Approach for the Future, on October 28-29, 2020 to elevate the urgency of national action and map efforts needed to coordinate the long-term health and well-being of clinicians through COVID-19 and beyond this pandemic.

On day 1, participants reviewed data and observations on clinician well-being since the COVID-19 pandemic, including:

• Systems approach principles to clinician well-being from the consensus report, Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being
• Lessons for leading interprofessional approaches to improving clinician well-being and care delivery during the pandemic and establishing systems for continuous learning
• Data on the health, social, and economic impacts of COVID-19 for clinician well-being and evidence of the cumulative effects of structural racism, unconscious biases, and other work system factors

On day 2, participants focused on operationalizing targeted systems approaches to clinician well-being through:

• Detailing strategic action for coordination at the national level that will help advance clinician well-being such as legal, regulatory, and licensing reforms
• Identification of the most effective efforts to address clinician well-being during COVID-19, barriers and facilitators to implementation, and conducive environments for change
• Developing tangible and tactical ways for meeting attendees to begin implementing effective systems approaches to clinician well-being within their own institutions

Resources

• Agenda
• Speakers and Planning Committee Roster 
• Speaker Bios

Background Materials

• Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being Brief
• Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being
• Resources to Support the Health and Well-Being of Clinicians During COVID-19

Speaker Presentations

• Welcome Remarks
• Session 1:  A Shift in our Mental Model – A Systems Approach to Clinician Well-Being
• Session 2: CEOs and CWOs in Conversation – Interprofessional Leadership During COVID-19
• Session 3: Leveraging Data to Impact the Design of Systems for Clinician Well-Being
• Reflections And Closing Remarks – Day 1
• Welcome And Reflections From Day 1
• Session 4: Coordinating National Actions for Change – Immediate Steps Forward
• Session 5: Adaptive Models of Clinician Well-Being
• Session 6: A Mandate for Action and Closing Remarks

Questions? Please email [email protected].