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Physician Wellbeing Archives

  • Research: Association of Women Surgeons

    July 21, 2022

    The Association of Women Surgeons, a Physicians Foundation grant-supported partner, evaluates the effect of a virtual coaching program offered to women surgery residents in a surgical society.

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  • Physicians Foundation Partner: Physicians for a Healthy California

    November 30, 2021

    Physicians for a Healthy California, a Physicians Foundation grant-supported partner, identified wellbeing factors for women physicians of color and developed recommendations to address systematically.

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  • Physicians Foundation Partner: Travis County Medical Society Foundation

    October 28, 2021

    Travis County Medical Society Foundation, a Physicians Foundation grant-supported partner, developed and released a toolkit to help health organizations establish their own physician wellbeing program.

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  • Research: Women in Medicine

    October 5, 2021

    The American Academy of Pediatrics, a Physicians Foundation grant-supported partner, in collaboration with five other health care organizations, explores the challenges to improving gender equity and strategies for advancing women in medicine in a multi-specialty supplement on “Women in Medicine.”

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  • Physicians Foundation Partner: Joy of Medicine: A Regional Approach to Improving Physicians Wellbeing

    May 14, 2021

    The Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Society (SSVMS), a Physicians Foundation grant-supported partner, recently released a report on the results from the Joy of Medicine – Sacramento Region Physician Joy Assessment Survey. The Joy of Medicine Program aimed to address physician...

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  • Campaign: Vital Signs

    January 30, 2020

    The Physicians Foundation’s campaign, Vital Signs, helps raise greater awareness about the physician suicide epidemic and provides physicians the tools to attend to their own wellbeing.

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  • Viewpoints: Physician Wellbeing

    January 30, 2020

    The Physicians Foundation and the American Medical Association’s perspective on improving physician wellbeing reinforces the importance of redesigning systems through the Practice Transformation Initiative.

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  • Leadership Perspective: America’s Broken Health Care System is Killing Our Doctors

    January 30, 2020

    Gary Price, MD, president of The Physicians Foundation, discusses why the current health care system is causing high rates of dissatisfaction among physicians, and more terribly, high rates of suicide.

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  • Research: Effect of a Professional Coaching Intervention on the Well-being and Distress of Physicians

    January 30, 2020

    Liselotte N. Dyrbye, MD, MHPH, et al., a Physicians Foundation grant-supported partner, published a study from a pilot randomized clinical trial among 88 physicians, finding those who receive professional coaching had significant reduction in emotional exhaustion and symptoms of burnout.

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  • Leadership Perspective: Saving a Physician from Burnout Saves Patients Too

    January 30, 2020

    Russell Libby, MD, board member of The Physicians Foundation, discusses how burnout affects every aspect of care and physicians’ careers.

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