Physician Suicide: When It’s Close to Home

The rate of suicide among physicians is almost twice as high as for the general population. Please join us for our online course, Physician Suicide: When It’s One of Our Own, with guest speaker Elizabeth Gall and Baptist Health’s Graciela M. Jimenez, LMFT and Rachel Rohaidy, M.D.

Target Audience

Physicians, Physician Assistants, Psychologists (Instruction Level: Intermediate), Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Respiratory Therapists (Personal Growth), Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians, Social Workers, Chaplains, Medical Students and other interested healthcare professionals.

Baptist Health South Florida is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Baptist Health South Florida maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

Learning Objectives

  • Define disproportionate suicide rates and driving factors occurring within physician communities; debunk myths with facts. 
  • Address individual and organizational resources to prevent suicide and burnout.
  • Identify perception of mental health among various generations of physicians. 
  • Discuss the impact of suicide on colleagues, interventions used by medical students and resources accessible to medical staff.
Additional information
Bibliography: 
  • Duarte, D., El-Hagrassy, M. M., e Couto, T. C., Gurgel, W., Fregni, F., & Correa, H. (2020). Male and female physician suicidality: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA psychiatry, 77(6), 587-597.
  • Mehta, S. S., & Edwards, M. L. (2018). Suffering in silence: mental health stigma and physicians' licensing fears. American Journal of Psychiatry Residents' Journal, 13(11), 2-4.
  • Weir, K. (2019). Worrying trends in US suicide rates. Monitor on Psychology, 50(3), 24.
Course Summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.00 Psychology CE
  • 2.00 General certificate of attendance
  • 2.00 Florida Board of Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors
  • 2.00 Nurse Practitioners
  • 2.00 Florida Board of Nursing
  • 2.00 Florida Board of Pharmacy
  • 2.00 Florida Board of Psychology
  • 2.00 Florida Board of Respiratory Therapy
Course opens: 
10/01/2022
Course expires: 
07/31/2024
Part of: 
Well-being e-Learning Series

Elizabeth (Betsy) Gall 
Widow of oncologist Matthew Gall, M.D., who died by suicide in 2019
Minneapolis, Minnesota 

Graciela M. Jimenez, LMFT 
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Baptist Health South Florida

Rachel Rohaidy, M.D. 
Psychiatrist 
Baptist Health South Florida

Elizabeth Gall, speaker for this educational activity, has indicated that she has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.

Graciela M. Jimenez, LMFT and Rachel Rohaidy, M.D., faculty for this educational activity, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose and have indicated that the presentations or discussions will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.

Ana Viamonte Ros, M.D., conference director of this educational activity, has indicated that she has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose.

Michele Benjamin, M.D., Leo Huynh, M.D., Jason James, M.D., Ana Rivas-Vazquez, Ph.D., and Philip Weimer, M.D., panelists for this educational activity, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose.

Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies*.  

*Ineligible companies – Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Disclosure Policy and Disclaimer

Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.
              
Baptist Health South Florida designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Available Credit

  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.00 Psychology CE
  • 2.00 General certificate of attendance
  • 2.00 Florida Board of Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors
  • 2.00 Nurse Practitioners
  • 2.00 Florida Board of Nursing
  • 2.00 Florida Board of Pharmacy
  • 2.00 Florida Board of Psychology
  • 2.00 Florida Board of Respiratory Therapy
Please login or register for a Baptist Health CME account to take this course.

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