26 Best Wellness Apps for Emergency Physicians | A Wellness Think Tank Initiative
September 8, 2017
If you have spent any time working in an emergency department in the last 10 years, you have undoubtedly come across a conversation about wellness...
Jordan Spector, MD
Announcing a Crowdsourced Wellness Initiatives Database for EM Residency Programs
August 30, 2017
“The part can never be well unless the whole is well.” – Plato The rigors of post-graduate training can strain even the most stoic of residents...
William Denq, MD CAQ-SM
Reflections and Summaries from the 2017 Resident Wellness Consensus Summit
June 9, 2017
The first ever Resident Wellness Consensus Summit (RWCS) was held this year as a pre-day to Essentials of EM on May 15, 2017 in Las...
Nicole Battaglioli, MD
Wellness and Resiliency during Residency: EM is a career with unresolved stories
May 10, 2017
“We do make a difference, but not just in the setting of resuscitating critically ill or injured people, but in putting people on the pathway...
Arlene Chung, MD
Wellness and Resiliency During Residency: Professional Identity Formation (featuring a podcast with Dr. Michael Weinstock)
April 24, 2017
“So I had medicine in my blood. But just because you have medicine in your blood doesn’t mean that it’s always smooth sailing.” —Michael Weinstock,...
Calling all U.S. EM residents: 5 Reasons to Fill out the 2017 National EM Resident Wellness Survey
March 20, 2017
This week the Wellness Think Tank is launching a resident wellness survey for Emergency Medicine residency training programs across the United States. We want 100% of...
Wellness and Resiliency During Residency: Life happens despite your best plans
February 20, 2017
When I got back home from taking [my board exams], having all these [negative] feelings swirling through my head, I remember driving up and seeing...
Calling all EM residents: Join the Resident Wellness Consensus Summit!
January 30, 2017
It seems that the 2017 year is quickly shaping up to be one of grassroots action both politically and now in emergency medicine (EM). On...
Michelle Lin, MD
Highlights from Second Annual EM Wellness Week
January 27, 2017
The second annual Emergency Wellness Week is coming to a close. This week we featured wellness initiatives that you can use to boost wellness in...
Wellness and Resiliency During Residency: Debriefing Critical Incidents and podcast
January 25, 2017
“One of the residents that I was working with was yelled at once by somebody else because he had cried while giving a family bad...
Wellness and Resiliency During Residency: Work-Life Balancing Act
December 21, 2016
“The hardest thing for me was trying to find time to do things aside from being a resident. When you’re working six 12 hours shifts...
Wellness and Resiliency During Residency: Strategizing with ZDoggMD
December 9, 2016
Unless you are living under a rock, many healthcare and public media platforms are talking about the insidious problems with burnout in the health professions world....