Individual Physician Wellness and Burnout Tools

1. CME-eligible Physician Well-being Activities - A complete listing of all the physician well-being activities offering CME credits.
2. Building Your Resilient Self - This 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. 
3. Medical Student Well-being: Don’t Forget About Us - In 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. 
4. Brene Brown: Listening to Shame: https://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame
5. Atul Gawande: How We Heal Medicine: https://www.ted.com/speakers/atul_gawande_1
6. Shawn Achor: The Happy Secret to Better Work: https://www.ted.com/speakers/shawn_achor
7. Brian Goldman: Doctors make mistakes: https://www.ted.com/speakers/brian_goldman
8. Suzie Brown: Concert of melody & medicine: http://www.tedmed.com/speakers/show?id=526396  
9. Finding Joy in Medicine. Cheng C and Greenhalgh S. https://vimeo.com/139548591
10. Mindfulness in Medicine. Horwitch C. https://vimeo.com/117306069
11. Negotiating Skills. Aiyer, M. and S. Rusch https://vimeo.com/89541011
12. Sustainable Leadership. O’Malley C, Hingle S. https://vimeo.com/40241496
13. Time Management for Leaders. Jokela, J. https://vimeo.com/35013659
14. Just Show Up, Sheryl Sandberg on how to help someone who is grieving:
    https://www.npr.org/2017/04/25/525453115/just-show-up-sheryl-sandberg-on-how-to-help-someone-whos-grieving?sc=17&f=&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app

1. ACP Design Your Own Well-being Program - Explore these tools to create a well-being program tailored to any organization’s needs and budget.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5.  Self-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. 
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Professional Health and Wellness Mini-Portfolio - This portfolio features four 10-minute micro skills that promote self-care and professional health and wellness.

Other Notable Toolkits

1. National Academy of Medicine Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience - Toolkits, resources, and publications from the action collaborative.
2. Center for Mind-Body Medicine Compendium of Mind-Body Resources and Tools  - Evidence-based strategies for relieving stress and promoting well-being.
3. Self-Compassion - A comprehensive resource with guided practices, exercises including a self-compassion assessment, and links to research on the topic.

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.

Learn More

1. Guided Mindful Practice Audio Files - Free guided body scan, hatha yoga, and sitting meditation audio files.
2. Meditation Podcast and Resources from Meditation Oasis - 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.
3. T2 Mood Tracker - This is a mood tracker app with separate sections for anxiety, depression, general well-being, head injury and post-traumatic stress.
4. InsightTimer - Free meditation app and blog with content for adults and children.
5. Headspace - Mindfulness tools and resources.
6. Buddhify - Guided Mindfulness tools bridged with life activities for both children and adults.

1. Pulse: Voices from the heart of medicine - publishing personal accounts of illness and healing, fostering the humanistic practice of medicine.
2. Kevin MD Blog and Podcast - platform where physicians, advanced practitioners, nurses, medical students, and patients share their insight and tell their stories.