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A Wellbeing Checklist for Medical Professionals Webinar

A Wellbeing Checklist for Medical Professionals Webinar
Being a doctor is a demanding and high-pressure job. The long hours, constant decision-making, and emotional toll can lead to discontent, burnout or worse. As a junior doctor, establishing healthy habits and boundaries now could set you up for a long and fulfilling career and healthy work-life balance.

In this webinar, hear from seasoned clinicians and learn from their medical journeys. They’ll share advice and tools covering a range of topics: - Understanding how you can stay healthy, both mentally and physically, particularly during the busy and stressful junior doctor years. - Identifying the signs that you might be burning out.

Long Lives, Healthy Workplaces

Long Lives, Healthy Workplaces is an initiative of the Welfare of Anaesthetists Special Interest Group and Everymind, with support from the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) and additional funding leveraged under The Prevention Hub.

They have compiled a toolkit to support better mental health and wellbeing for anaesthetists and anaesthetic trainees.

The video above (Published July 25, 2018), features Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) President, David M Scott welcome message for the Long Lives, Healthy Workplaces Toolkit for Anaesthetists.

Read more about Long Lives, Healthy Workplaces on the ASA website.

Long Lives, Healthy Workplaces: A Toolkit for Anaesthetic Departments by Welfare of Anaesthetists SIG Long Lives, Healthy Workplaces is an initiative of the Wellbeing Special Interest Group and Everymind, with support from the Australian Society of Anaesthetists (ASA) and additional funding leveraged under The Prevention Hub. The purpose is to provide a toolkit to support better mental health and wellbeing for anaesthetists and anaesthetic trainees.
Publication Date: 2019
Long Lives, Healthy Workplaces: Amended resources for New Zealand Anaesthetic Departments by Welfare of Anaesthetists SIG & NZSA Long Lives Healthy Workplaces is a toolkit for Anaesthesia Departments which includes resources to support wellbeing. The toolkit has been tailored for NZ anaesthetists and is an initiative of the Wellbeing Special Interest Group and EveryMind, an Australian institute dedicated to mental wellness. We encourage you to access this resource for yourself and/or your department.
Publication Date: 2019

Welfare of Anaesthetists

In this video, two founding members of the Welfare of Anaesthetists Special Interest Group - Dr Di Khursandi and Dr Genevieve Goulding - talk to Dr Christine Ball (Published on Oct 5, 2016).

Doctor burnout as moral injury- opinion on Dr Zubin Damania's viral video

Warsh F. Celebrity doctor says burnout is moral injury - sadly, he's missed the point. Medical Observer, Opinion, 3 April 2019.

Moral Injury - article resource (Canada) The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) has an information page about Moral Injury, published on 14 September 2017.

Resilience and Wellbeing During COVID-19

This series of videos has been created by Professor Jill Klein for the Melbourne Business School, University of Melbourne 'Resilience and wellbeing during COVID-19' series. Thevideos are aimed at clinicians and provide an overview of the concept of resilience and a basic model. The first video is a brief 5-minute introduction, while the second is a recorded live presentation of 20 minutes.

Physician burnout

It’s time to start treating physician burnout as a system issue, not an individual one.

In this video (published on Feb 26, 2021), Tait Shanafelt, Chief Wellness Officer for Stanford Medicine and former Director of the Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine Program on Physician Well-Being, explains how during the NEJM Catalyst June 2016 event, "Leadership: Translating Challenge to Success".

Podcasts

Recommended podcasts are listed below. Additional information about podcasts can be found on the Podcasts library guide.

The Burnout Recovery Podcast

Interior Voices

Interior Voices (Podcast)
Welcome to Interior Voices, an Interior Health podcast series. Please join us for monthly installments produced by Aboriginal Health and Wellness Communications where we’ll explore the intersection of health and culture in the workplace, our everyday lives, and patient care.
Interior Voices (iOS/Apple)

The Mind Full Medic Podcast

The Mind Full Medic Podcast
Podcast with Dr Cheryl Martin exploring health, wellbeing, optimal performance and professional fulfilment with a particular focus on doctors and healthcare
The Mind Full Medic Podcast (Spotify)
The Mind Full Medic Podcast (iOS/Apple)

Not Alone

Not Alone – a podcast from Beyond Blue
When it comes to mental health, we all have our own unique stories to tell. But no matter what we are going through, there are other people experiencing it too.

From Beyond Blue, this is Not Alone. A podcast where everyday Australians talk about their mental health journey to help you with yours.
Note Alone (Spotify)
Note Alone (iOS/Apple)

The Wellbeing Prescription

The Wellbeing Prescription
A GPEx podcast series that provides insightful and practical resources for Health Professionals who are tackling the all too common issue of job-induced stress and burnout.
The Wellbeing Prescription (Spotify)
The Wellbeing Prescription (iOS/Apple)

Podcast episodes on wellbeing

Pomegranate Health - Ep112: The resilient workplace
Professor Neil Greenberg is an occupational psychiatrist with more than 23 years in the UK Armed Forces. His extensive research within defence and health settings has informed a very pragmatic understanding of the impact of trauma and relationships in the workplace. Professor Greenberg overturns some entrenched beliefs we have about the presentation and management of mental illness, and reflects on the role of the Committee and how his own understanding of health has shifted in response to personal distress.
Pomegranate Health - Ep5: Physician, Heal Thyself
Most preventive health messages focus on diet, exercise, and stress reduction. But are doctors taking this advice for themselves? The Doctors' Health Advisory Service, or DHAS, was created in 1981 to offer confidential help to practitioners in both Australia and New Zealand. This episode features Dr Jill Gordon FASPsychMed, president of DHAS New South Wales; Dr Roger Sexton FRACGP, medical director of the South Australia office; and Dr Edwin Whiteside FRACP, director of the New Zealand office. They discuss why doctors may experience higher rates of depression and anxiety, and common fears around mandatory reporting.
Ockham's Razor podcast episode: When anaesthetists can't sleep ...
Dr Michael Toon, anaesthetist and stand-up comedian, is a guest on the Ockham's Razor podcast.

"On the eve of one of the most important days of his life - not including his turn at the Olympics! - Michael Toon could not do the one thing he desperately needed to do. For a man who hoped to put people to sleep for a living, it was three parts irony to four parts frustration."
RACS Post Op Podcast: Helping prevent family violence
The most common cause of assault-related hospital admissions, particularly affecting women, is due to family violence.Surgeons are very much on the frontline dealing with trauma in a medical sense. But, they’re also in a position to help mitigate future harm.

In this episode, Associate Professor Payal Mukherjee FRACSdiscusses the role of the surgical community in helping prevent family and domestic violence.
MJA Podcasts 2021 Episode 13: Quotas, unaccredited registrars and cultural shift, with Dr Yumiko Kadota
Dr Yumiko Kadota resigned as an unaccredited registrar after months of gruelling hours and exploitative work conditions. She talks about regaining the balance in her life and what changes she sees in the way trainees and registrars are treated. With MJA news and online editor, Cate Swannell.
Stanford Medcast Episode 18: COVID-19 Mini-Series - Physician Wellness
This episode will address physician wellness and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on physicians and other members of the health care team. Burnout is an ongoing issue in health care, but the pandemic escalated the problem even more. Participants will learn about the challenges members of the health care team have faced since the beginning of the pandemic, and the factors involved in reducing the risk for burnout, including development of a culture of wellness, personal resilience and efficiency of practice.