Physician Wellness Resource Library

Organization and Society Websites for Physician Wellness

AMA website
AMA - Spotify Physician Well Being Podcasts
My Wellbeing Index – A resource where you can measure your burnout periodically and see the improvement over time
Physiciansworkingtogether.org – An online community of doctors caring for doctors
workingwiselygroup.com – A resource for counselling for physicians experiencing burnout
TheHappyMD.Com – A Balanced Approach to Burnout Prevention, Physician Wellness and living
National Academy of Medicine
PBCMS Physician Wellness Program
Sacramento Medical Society Joy of Medicine
Focus on: Physician Burnout
Cleveland Clinic’s doctor peer coaches build physician resiliency

TED Talks, Podcasts, Webinars, and YouTube presentations links:

Physician Burnout
Why Doctors Kill Themselves
Brene Brown: Listening to Shame
Atul Gawande: How We Heal Medicine
Shawn Achor: The Happy Secret to Better Work
Brian Goldman: Doctors make mistakes
Finding Joy in Medicine. Cheng C and Greenhalgh S.
Mindfulness in Medicine. Horwitch C.
Negotiating Skills. Aiyer, M. and S. Rusch
Sustainable Leadership. O’Malley C, Hingle S.
Time Management for Leaders. Jokela, J.

Licensing Websites

https://flboardofmedicine.gov/renewals/

https://floridasosteopathicmedicine.gov/renewals/

Other Helpful Links:

Physicians and Suicide Report 2025: 'A Lot More Still Needs to Be Done' added 7/2025

Resilience and Burnout Among Physicians and the General US Working Population added 9/14/2023

Physician and Nurse Well-Being and Preferred Interventions to Address Burnout in Hospital Practice Factors Associated With Turnover, Outcomes, and Patient Safety added 9/14/2023

The core problem behind physician burnout: loss of independence added 9/14/2023

Terms every doctor should know about physician burnout added 6/2023

Addressing Health Worker Burnout The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory on Building a Thriving Health Workforce added 2/2023

Psychotherapy – How To Frame It, How To Use It – Stefan Pasternak, M,D., on how the therapist-patient relationship is the cornerstone of psychotherapy, and about the challenges of developing a goal for the therapy, the physiologic and medication aspects of therapy, of coming to an accurate diagnosis, cognitive versus psychodynamic techniques, psychological mindedness, when a change of therapist may be needed, etc. January 2023 Listen here.

5 Mental Health Resources for Men Interested in Learning More About Therapy Without Judgment added 12/2022

Confronting Health Worker Burnout and Well-Being posted 8/2022

Healing the healer: Making advocacy personal posted 8/2022

Florida's severe child psychiatrist shortage keeps one provider in Miami-Dade up at night posted 8/2022

Physician Suicide: A Call to Action

[White Paper] An unlikely remedy: How technology can alleviate the clinician HIT burden posted 5/2022

29 Physician Specialties Ranked by 2021 Burnout Rates posted 4/2022

Pushed to Their Limits, 1 in 5 Physicians Intends to Leave Practice posted 4/1/2022

A Boost for Doctors’ Well-Being? Bring Back the Physician Lounge posted 2/15/2022

ARC Issue Brief: Confidential care to support physician health and wellness posted 1/14/2022

Q&A: Why improving physicians’ well-being is an ongoing journey
AMA member William Barish, M.D., reflects on his role as chief wellness officer and how he has had to adjust well-being efforts around COVID-19. Read more from the AMA. posted 6/1/2021

The Dr. Lorna Breen Health Care Provider Protection Act posted 5/26/2021

How to Enhance EHR Use Measures to Mitigate Clinician Burnout posted 4/2021

Burnout Prevention Matrix posted 4/2021

Make the Difference: Preventing Medical Trainee Suicide from the Mayo Clinic posted 4/2021

Beyond Burned Out - Chronic stress was rampant even before the pandemic. Leaders can’t ignore it any longer. By Jennifer Moss 2/21/2021

Clinician Burnout Is Only Getting Worse. Here’s How to Tackle the Problem

Suicide Rate Twice As High Among Physicians As General Population

Tackling Physician Burnout Requires Unprecedented Leadership

Why Happy Doctors Die by Suicide

Wellness Seminars Won’t Fix Burnout

Burning Brightly, Not Burning Out

Burnout and Scope of Practice in New Family Physicians