Promoting Physician Well-Being: How to Thrive in Medicine by Managing Physician Stress

Target Audience

Graduate Medical Education faculty and all other interested healthcare professionals. 

Learning Objectives

  • Recognize the importance of well-being for physicians and residents.
  • Identify the ACGME Common Program Requirements for Residency Education (formally known as Duty Hour regulations). 
  • Recognize the signs of fatigue, sleep deprivation, burnout, depression and substance abuse.  
  • Identify the effect of fatigue, sleep deprivation, burnout, depression and substance abuse on physicians' functioning and performance. 
  • Explain strategies for thriving in medicine and managing stress. 
Additional information
Bibliography: 
  • Zwack, J & Schweitzer, J. If every fifth physician is affected by burnout, what about  the other four? Resilience strategies of experienced physicians, Academic  Medicine. 2013; Vol. 88(3):382-9.
  • Center for Disease Control (2023), https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/suicide-data-statistics.html
  • Watson, NF, Badr, MS, Belenky, G, Bliwise, DL, Buxton, OM, Buysse, D, et al.  Recommended amount of sleep for a healthy adult: a joint consensus statement  of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research Society. Sleep.  2015;38(6):843–844.
Course Summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 General certificate of attendance
  • 1.00 Nurse Practitioners
Course opens: 
11/13/2023
Course expires: 
12/31/2024
Part of: 
Baptist Health GME Faculty Development e-Learning Series

Susan Chalfin, Ph.D.
Director, Behavioral Medicine Training 
Family Medicine Residency Program, 
West Kendall Baptist Hospital/Florida International University
Consultant, GME Programs, Baptist Health Academics
Baptist Health South Florida

Susan Chalfin, Ph.D., faculty for this educational activity, 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.

Agueda Hernandez, M.D., conference director for this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies.*

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  1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 General certificate of attendance
  • 1.00 Nurse Practitioners
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