Frontline Connect: Eliminating Barriers to Mental Health Services for the Health Care Workforce
May 2024
American Medical Association (AMA) STEPS Forward podcast in which Dr. Gaurava Agarwal, vice president and chief wellness executive at Northwestern Medicine, discusses Frontline Connect: Mental Health Care for the Health Care Workforce, an initiative by the Center for Workplace Mental Health (a program of the American Psychiatric Association Foundation) that provides leaders of health systems with high-impact resources and strategies to improve access to mental health services for the health care workforce.
Rethinking Residency
Self compassion resources for all physicians, with a focus on residency.
Physician Burnout and Career Fatigue Part III
September 2023
The role of Physician Health Programs is featured in this article published by the American Bar Association, attorneys Sun W. Vega, Daniel Blaney Koen, and Tyler Cowart and concludes that “Anecdotally, as evidenced by increased state amendments to licensing board questionnaires and support of PHPs, it appears that renewed focus on physician burnout and mental health is driving necessary, systemic changes that humanize physicians and reduce longstanding stigmas around seeking mental health treatment.”
Best Practices for the Independent Medical Examination of Mental and Behavioral Disorders | Guides Newsletter | AMA Guides (ama-assn.org)
August 2022
This article offers guidance on applying and adapting existing standards to Mental and Behavioral Disorder IMEs. It outlines the appropriate use of psychiatric nomenclature and how to apply recent changes to Chapter 14 of the AMA Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment. The article further offers a mechanism for introducing greater objectivity into an otherwise subjective process by employing relevant psychological validity testing and conducting a coherence analysis in formulating an opinion. In summary, it provides a synopsis of current best practices and offers the examiner a method for aligning M&BD IMEs with equally high standards of excellence. It includes consideration for the impact of occupational risk.
Cognitive Screening for Senior Physicians: Are We Minding the Gap?
2021
Article in the Journal of Medical Regulation
By Christopher C. Bundy, MD, MPH; Betsy White Williams, PhD, MPH
Editor's Note by Heidi M. Koenig, MD, Editor-in-Chief
An Impaired Physician with Alcohol Use Disorder and Multiple Medical Comorbidities
2020
Article in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry
By Hsu, Michael MD; Farahmand, Pantea MD; Baslet, Gaston MD; Sanchez, Luis MD; Levy-Carrick, Nomi C. MD, MPhil; Suzuki, Joji MD
Contributing author: Luis T. Sanchez, MD, former FSPHP President
Combating Physician Burnout: A Guide for Psychiatrists
2020
Book Available on aapi.org
Edited by Sheila LoboPrabhu, M.D., Richard F. Summers, M.D., and H. Steven Moffic, M.D.
Dr. Luis T. Sanchez, MD, Former FSPHP President and Gary Chinman, MD, Former FSPHP Member, are both contributing authors and experts from the field of physician health and Physician Health Programs.
Physician Suicide Prevention: Listening to the Voices of Experience
Virtual Education Session Resource List
December 2020
The Impact and Sequelae of Sexual Victimization of Graduate and Professional Students
September 2020
Article in Current Psychopharmacology
By Philip Hemphill and Margaret Reynolds
Summer Series on Physician Well-Being
Ohio State Medical Association
Recorded Sessions Available
Medical Family Relationships Keys for Coping in Unprecedented Times
Wayne M. Sotile, PhD
Burnout: Measurement Tool(s), Cause(s) and Impact(s)
January 22, 2020
Article in The Rural Monitor. This is the first in a two-part series on rural physician and provider behavioral health.
By Kay Miller Temple, MD
Physician Burnout: Definition(s), Cause(s), Impact(s), Solution(s)
January 22, 2020
Article in The Rural Monitor
By Kay Miller Temple, MD.
Physician Burnout: The Real Reason Doctors Burn Out | NBC Left Field
NBC Left Field
June 24, 2019
This is a 13-minute video-podcast about physician burn-out and stress from a doctor's perspective.
FSMB Physician Wellness and Burnout Report
April 2018
