Academic Medicine Open Forum

 View Only

  • 1.  AAMC publishes report on wellness initiatives in health care

    Posted 11-04-2021 09:53:00 AM
    The Rise of Wellness Initiatives in Health Care: Using National Survey Data to Support Effective Well-Being Champions and Wellness Programs presents data from two recent surveys of health care professionals highlighting common elements of wellness programming. The report discusses how medical schools and teaching hospitals can develop and support wellness initiatives and their leaders. Among the key findings, a large majority of institutions have at least one wellness program, but the breadth of those programs varies widely.

    In my last role, I rolled out a 'Caring for you and team' weekly newsletter with tips, articles, and trainings around self-care and wellness for our employees. We hired a Chief Wellness Officer to take a deeper look at our infrastructure across the organization and began running peer-to-peer resiliency trainings.

    What are you and your institutions doing for you and your students, staff and faculty to support wellness? How do you hope things focus on well-being moving forward? Share with us here.

    Want to learn more? The report will be the focus of a session during Learn Serve Lead 2021: The Virtual Experience, Nov. 10 at 2 pm ET. Join the discussion live with @Jon Alan Courand, @mona abaza, @Serina Neumann and Catherine Florio Pipas.





    ------------------------------
    Penny Schnarrs
    Virtual Communities Program Manager
    Association of American Medical Colleges
    ------------------------------
    ​​​


  • 2.  RE: AAMC publishes report on wellness initiatives in health care

    Posted 11-04-2021 11:40:00 AM
    So excited to see the release of this publication! It represents an incredible effort from members of the CFAS Faculty Resilience Committee exploring a topic front-and-center on the mind of many in the academic medicine faculty community: our wellbeing and the resources devoted to ensuring and supporting it.

    ------------------------------
    Eric Weissman
    Senior Director, CFAS
    Association of American Medical Colleges
    ------------------------------

    Original Message


  • 3.  RE: AAMC publishes report on wellness initiatives in health care

    Posted 11-10-2021 11:17:00 AM

    As someone who works closely on wellbeing internally for our students, faculty and staff and in promoting wellbeing in our community at large, this survey starts to address the discussion of what we are doing and should be doing on this important topic. I'd love to hear more about what you are doing in your organizations and I'm happy to share more about my experience here and in our session. I hope you can join us live or in discussion with us here.  The AAMC publication is just the first step in providing a better definition, an evolving structure and set of available resources for those individuals who serve in the many types of wellbeing champion positions. Excited to expand on this discussion! 



    ------------------------------
    Jon Alan Courand
    Professor and Vice Chair for Pediatrics, Assistant Dean for Wellbeing for GME; Council of Faculty and Academic Societies
    UTHealth
    ------------------------------

    Original Message


  • 4.  RE: AAMC publishes report on wellness initiatives in health care

    Posted 11-09-2021 01:32:00 PM
    So proud to be part of this group and see the amazing work that has come out of the CFAS Resilience group over the years. Hope you can join us for the panel and lively discussion after as well.


    Mona M Abaza, MD, MS
    Professor, Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs and Diversity
    University of Colorado SOM
    Department of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery

    ------------------------------
    mona abaza
    professor, vice chair pf faculty affair and divers
    University of Colorado School of Medicine
    ------------------------------

    Original Message


  • 5.  RE: AAMC publishes report on wellness initiatives in health care

    Posted 11-12-2021 12:58:00 PM
    Cheers to all our wellbeing!!
     How can the CFAS Faculty Resilience Committee support you and your organization in  your well-being efforts.  Below are the 10 recommendations and  ideas generated on next steps. Please review the full report and provide feedback on how you may use it to advance wellbeing .

    Recommendations
    1. Approach organizational wellness initiatives within an improvement framework to lead change.
    2. Develop and communicate an organizational vision for well-being.
    3. Establish an organizational-level well-being champion to coordinate and align a network of wellness efforts across the organization.
    4. Embed well-being champions throughout the organization to coordinate efforts for specific audiences.
    5. Standardize the job characteristics of well-being champions and set clear expectations.
    6. Support the role of all well-being champions by introducing training, providing resources, and dedicating funding.
    7. Promote well-being as a core competency for all health professionals.
    8. Incorporate program evaluation when designing comprehensive well-being initiatives.
    9. Conduct ongoing assessments of individual well-being.
    10. Prioritize well-being as a professional development goal.

    Next Steps

    1.Identify Task forces to advance each of the 10 Recommendations 

    2.Develop speaker series to highlight successes in each of the 10 recommendations

    3.Design a "Train the Trainer" leadership program to advance Wellbeing Champions & Initiatives 

    4.Create a Follow up Survey to monitor progress

    5.Prioritize a Curriculum to advance the Recommendations and train all health professionals to promote organizational Wellbeing 

    6.Focus on Advancing Policies 

    7.Partner with COD and COTH to advance our mission and recommendations

    8.OTHER_______________________________________________________


    Catherine Pipas

    ------------------------------
    Catherine Pipas
    Professor
    American Academy of Family Physicians
    ------------------------------

    Original Message


  • 6.  RE: AAMC publishes report on wellness initiatives in health care

    Posted 11-12-2021 01:37:00 PM
    Thank you @Jon Alan Courand, @Catherine Pipas, @mona abaza and @Serina Neumann for an amazing session at LSL. And to all who attended, and shared during the session such as @David Musick - I hope you will all continue to share how you are using the recommendations and progressing at your institutions. Don't forget that the AAMC does have some other great resources that you can utilize as well. But, this is your space to connect and share moving forward and I can't wait to hear how you advance such a timely and important topic.

    Food for thought - the following article from HBR, titled Research: Women Leaders Took on Even More Invisible Work During the Pandemic
    popped up on my LinkedIn feed and I'd love to hear your thoughts - ​​​​​​

    ------------------------------
    Penny Schnarrs
    Virtual Communities Program Manager
    Association of American Medical Colleges
    ------------------------------

    Original Message


  • 7.  RE: AAMC publishes report on wellness initiatives in health care

    Posted 03-15-2022 10:01:00 AM

    Next week, on March 23 at 1:00pm Eastern, the AAMC will host a webinar on supporting wellness initiatives in health care and promoting a culture of wellbeing. Presenters, including @Jon Alan Courand, will discuss survey results and recommendations from the AAMC publication mentioned here in this discussion: "The Rise of Wellness Initiatives in Health Care: Using National Survey Data to Support Effective Well-Being Champions and Wellness Programs."  Register Now
    @Jon Alan Courand looking forward to hearing you share more about this in the webinar!

    ​

    ------------------------------
    Nicole Buckley
    Communications Strategist
    Association of American Medical Colleges
    ------------------------------

    Original Message