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