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Chief Wellness Officer Roles and Organizational Structures: Insights From the CHARM Network Survey
Mayo Clinic Proceedings: L.S. Mehta, T. Shanafelt, G. Wallingford, J. Ripp
Occupational distress and burnout continue to be significant challenges in the health care system of the United States, prompting organizations to increase investments in workforce well-being. Evidence shows that organizations with a Chief Wellness Officer are more likely to treat clinician well-being as an organizational performance metric and to implement measures aimed at reducing occupational burnout.
Creating the Conditions for Flourishing: An Integrated Framework for Healthcare and Health Professions Education
Teaching and Learning in Medicine: S.T. Hingle, B. Suh, S. Suh, C. Todd.
Healthcare and health professions education organizations do not operate in isolation. A systems-oriented approach to flourishing must therefore begin, not with the assumption that organizations control all determinants of well-being, but with recognition that they exercise meaningful, though bounded, agency within a changing ecosystem.
Quality Improvement at a Crossroads: Securing Its Place in Academic Medicine
Annals of Internal Medicine: R. Howard, M. Englesbe
Academic medicine's credibility increasingly rests on not only generating new knowledge but also acting on it. Quality improvement, done rigorously and judged on its own terms, is the discipline most directly responsible for closing the gap between what medicine knows and what it does.
How humanities help medicine
I.M. Matters from ACP: R. Dubosar
When doctors write creatively, it can help them process their roles as physicians as well as interact with patients on a human level.
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