The California Medical Association (CMA) Foundation will host a multi-session track on physician burnout at the 2018 Network of Ethnic Physician Organizations (NEPO) Summit. The track will focus primarily on reducing stress and increasing the wellness of ethnic minority woman physicians.

The Women in Leadership (WIL) development program will be a tool to fight burnout in women physicians in Baylor Scott & White Health's large multi-specialty group practice. A pilot of the WIL program was executed in 2017, and since inception, has been physician led and data driven.

AWS will implement a positive psychology coaching intervention for resident members and faculty with an emphasis on issues specific to women surgeons. AWS aims to connect residents and faculty in a meaningful way to support their emotional and professional development and address issues contributing to burnout.

Women’s Wellness through Equity and Leadership (WEL) will recruit a cohort of early- to mid-career female physicians and health care leaders to provide networking and education around critical leadership skills, develop principles regarding healthy work environments for female physicians, and contribute to the development of a consortium of six health care organizations to create infrastructure for addressing these issues.

The Metro Omaha Medical Society will address physician burnout and wellness at a community level, eliminating the barriers to seeking care that exist in other models because they are contained within an employer based system and endanger the anonymity that doctors consider a necessity. 

Mindful Mental Training in Physicians: Stress Resilience and Wellbeing will demonstrate feasibility of a mindfulness-based CME intervention to promote stress resilience and wellbeing in practicing surgeons and anesthesiologists.

This project aims to train physicians identified by peers as Opinion Leaders (well-liked and influential physicians). These Opinion Leaders will then drive engagement in activities designed to create an organizational culture of wellness (e.g. appreciation, values alignment, and peer support) in which physicians extend to themselves and their colleagues the same natural compassion that they show to their patients.

The Joy of Medicine program is a multilateral approach to physician well-being through building personal resilience, connecting with colleagues, and collaborating with physician leaders of medical groups and well-being committees to foster a culture of wellness in the local physician community.

Mount Sinai Medical Center will leverage its institutional commitment to physician trainee wellness by piloting a parallel program for attending level physicians. The Physician Wellness Program (PWP) will be a structured, physician-led, and practice-oriented program for practicing physicians.

The Travis County Medical Society Foundation will collaborate with other medical societies to develop a manual on how to create a Physician Wellness Program (PWP). In addition to a toolkit, the manual will include research and background supporting the need for such a program.