Resources for Institutional Strategies to Promote Resilience and Reduce Burnout

These resources offer additional strategies to prevent burnout and promote well-being at the practice level.

  1. How to Create a Wellness Committee: Creating a wellness committee is a concrete first step an organization can take to foster a culture of clinician wellness. 
  2. Elevator Speech for Approaching Organizational Leadership: Use this printable resource as a guide to initiate a conversation about physician well-being and burnout with organizational executives. 
  3. Table of Interventions: This table provides organizational-level interventions to improve physician well-being. Interventions are classified as addressing either culture of wellness or efficiency of practice, and are further categorized by practice type, resource needs to implement, and time frame to implement.
  4. AMA Steps Forward: https://www.stepsforward.org/modules/physician-wellness
  5. American Hospital Association Call to Action, Creating a Culture of Health: http://www.aha.org/research/cor/content/creating-a-culture-of-health.pdf
  6. National Academy of Medicine announced a new Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience in December 2016, aimed at building a collaborative platform for supporting and improving clinician well-being and resilience across multiple organizations: https://nam.edu/perspectives-on-clinician-well-being-and-resilience/
  7. Resident Doctors of Canada, Resiliency Training Website: http://residentdoctors.ca/wellness/resiliency/
  8. Preventing Physician Burnout Linzer M, Guzman-Corrales L, Poplau S. https://www.stepsforward.org/modules/physician-burnout
  9. Improving Physician Resilience. Finkelstein C. https://www.stepsforward.org/modules/improving-physician-resilience
  10. Joy in Practice. Linzer M, Poplau S. AMA Steps Forward Module https://www.stepsforward.org/modules/joy-in-medicine
  11. GWIMS Toolkit: Part-time Faculty in Academic Medicine, Individual and Institutional Advantages. Association of American Medical Colleges Group on Women in Medicine and Science. https://www.aamc.org/members/gwims/toolkit 
  12. Physician Wellness: Preventing Resident and Fellow Burnout. Okanlawon T. https://www.stepsforward.org/modules/physician-wellness
  13. Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.  Symposium on Physician Well-Being: Summary, presentations, references  available at  http://www.acgme.org/What-We-Do/Initiatives/Physician-Well-Being/2016-ACGME-Symposium-on-Physician-Well-Being
  14. CHARM Annotated Bibliography of Evidence-Based Well-being Interventions – http://www.im.org/p/cm/ld/fid=1683
  15. Peer Support Programs for Physicians: Mitigate the Effects of Emotion Stressors Through Peer Support - https://edhub.ama-assn.org/steps-forward/module/2767766