Physician wellness has been identified as a priority by SEAMO's partners: CTAQ, Queen's Faculty of Health Sciences, Kingston Health Sciences Centre and Providence Care Centre. The prioritization of physician wellness will ensure proactive and reactive approaches to support our physicians with a focus on preventing burnout and promoting a healthy work-life integration.
Studies by Physician Wellness Expert Dr. Liselotte Dyrbye, Mayo Clinic, confirmed that when you improve physician health, patient outcomes improve as a result. During COVID-19, check out this list of pandemic-specific resources for mental health wellness.
We are dedicated to improving wellness for physicians. Below is a list of resources you can use to help learn about physician wellness, burnout and resilience.
This page is designed to be a growing resource and we welcome your suggestions! If you know of any resourses you think we should include please send them to seamo.communication@queensu.ca.
Are you the physician wellness lead in your department and don’t see your name listed? Contact us to be added to the list.
- Critical Care – Christine D’Arsigny
- Emergency Medicine - Louise Rang
- Medicine - Mala Joneja
- Otolaryngology – Timothy Phillips
- Pathology and Molecular Medicine - Sandy Boag
- Pediatrics – Amy Acker
- A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
- An Organization Model to Assist Individual Physicians, Scientists, and Senior Health Care Administrators With Personal and Professional Needs
- Association Between Physician Burnout and Patient Safety, Professionalism, and Patient Satisfaction
- A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
- Association Between Physician Burnout and Patient Safety, Professionalism, and Patient Satisfaction A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
- Association of Racial Bias With Burnout Among Resident Physicians
- Burnout Among Health Care Professionals: A Call to Explore and Address This Underrecognized Threat to Safe, High-Quality Care
- Burnout and engagement among resident doctors in the Netherlands: a national study
- Burnout and Medical Errors Among American Surgeons
- CMA Statement on Physician Health and Wellness
- Emotional exhaustion and workload predict clinician-rated and objective patient safety
- Estimating institutional physician turnover attributable to self-reported burnout and associated financial burden: a case study
- Is the Professional Satisfaction of General Internists Associated with Patient Satisfaction?
- Linking physician burnout and patient outcomes: Exploring the dyadic relationship between physicians and patients
- Nurse staffing, burnout, and health care–associated infection
- Personal Consequences of Malpractice Lawsuits on American Surgeons
- Physician Burnout A Potential Threat to Successful Health Care Reform
- Physicians' characteristics influence patients' adherence to medical treatment: Results from the Medical Outcomes Study.
- Physician wellness: a missing quality indicator
- Stress and Medical Malpractice: Organizational Risk Assessment and Intervention
- The Business Case for Investing in Physician Well-being
- The interplay between teamwork, clinicians’ emotional exhaustion, and clinician-rated patient safety: a longitudinal study
- The relationship between physician burnout and quality of healthcare in terms of safety and acceptability: a systematic review
- The Relationship Between Professional Burnout and Quality and Safety in Healthcare: A Meta-Analysis