Use this collection of Podcasts, TED Talks, blogs, apps, and more to take a deeper dive into improving your personal well-being and professional satisfaction.
CME-Eligible Activities, TED Talks, Podcasts and Webinars
- CME-eligible Physician Well-being Activities - A complete listing of all the physician well-being activities offering CME credits.
- BuildingÌýYour Resilient Self -ÌýThis free webinar led by Gail Gazelle, MD, FACP, FAAHPM, executive coach for physicians and physician leaders, teaches how to build resilience in your life and in your practice.Ìý
- Medical Student Well-being: Don’t Forget About Us -ÌýIn this playback webinar, Micah Beachy, DO, FACP, discusses the importance of well-being for medical students and shares strategies for how to maintain it while in school and throughout training. Q&A follows.Ìý
- Brene Brown: Listening to Shame:
- Atul Gawande: How We Heal Medicine:
- Shawn Achor: The Happy Secret to Better Work:
- Brian Goldman: Doctors make mistakes:
- Suzie Brown: Concert of melody & medicine: ÌýÌý
- Finding Joy in Medicine. Cheng C and Greenhalgh S.
- Mindfulness in Medicine. Horwitch C.
- Negotiating Skills. Aiyer, M. and S. Rusch
- Sustainable Leadership. O’Malley C, Hingle S.
- Time Management for Leaders. Jokela, J.
- Just Show Up, Sheryl Sandberg on how to help someone who is grieving:
Toolkits
- ACP Design Your Own Well-being Program - Explore these tools to create a well-being program tailored to any organization’s needs and budget.
- Advocacy Toolkit: Modernizing License and Credentialing Applications to Not Stigmatize Mental Health - Connect through your ACP chapter to work with organizations and state medical boards to change inappropriate medical licensing and credentialing questions about receiving mental health care or having a mental health diagnosis.
- I.M. Emotional Support Hub and Video Series - Protect your health and well-being during especially stressful times with this collection of peer support, free and low-cost counseling, and support resources for individuals, teams, organizations, and leadership.
- Resident Well-being Hub - ACP’s online Resident Well-being Learning Hub connects residents with evidence-based strategies to foster well-being and mitigate burnout and promote the value of collaborative learning environments and positive social interaction.
- ÌýSelf-Advocacy Resources for Residents and Fellows - As trainees, you may experience situations that cause concern and require intervention to come to a resolution. The following resources provide you with practical tips on how to advocate for yourself and address concerns using the appropriate chain of escalation.Ìý
- Team-Based Care Toolkit - This toolkit shares best practices and real-life examples of successful team-based clinical care models that include internal medicine physicians working with Nurse Practitioners (NPs) and Physician Assistants (PAs) and other members of the clinical care team.
- ACP Advance Quality Improvement Curriculum and Leadership Training - The ACP Advance approach is built on five key pillars that are critical to successful implementation of QI initiatives in practice. These pillars include Clinician Engagement and Ownership; Team-based Care; Patient and Family Partnership; Promotion of Health Equity; and Promotion of Clinician Well-Being.
- Professional Health and Wellness Mini-Portfolio -ÌýThis portfolio features four 10-minute micro skills that promote self-care and professional health and wellness.
Other Notable Toolkits
- National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience - Toolkits, resources, and publications from the action collaborative.
- - Evidence-based strategies for relieving stress and promoting well-being.
- - A comprehensive resource with guided practices, exercises including a self-compassion assessment, and links to research on the topic.
Mini But Mighty Skills for Well-being
Applicable for systems, organizations, and individuals, learn actionable well-being skills through micro-learnings (10-15 minutes) that meet clinicians’ just-in-time and ongoing change needs.
Wellness Apps
- - Free guided body scan, hatha yoga, and sitting meditation audio files.
- - In addition to free guided meditations for stress relief and relaxation in traumatic times, the app contains a short version of their meditation course and meditations for everyday.
- - This is a mood tracker app with separate sections for anxiety, depression, general well-being, head injury and post-traumatic stress.
- - Free meditation app and blog with content for adults and children.
- - Mindfulness tools and resources.
- - Guided Mindfulness tools bridged with life activities for both children and adults.
Medical Humanism Blogs
- - publishing personal accounts of illness and healing, fostering the humanistic practice of medicine.
- - platform where physicians, advanced practitioners, nurses, medical students, and patients share their insight and tell their stories.