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National Suicide Prevention

If you are in crisis, contact the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline: Call/text 988 for support, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency dept.

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Marvin

Marvin is a mental health resource developed specifically for medical residents.  Marvin works with WSU employees' insurance, so there is no cost other than a standard co-pay.  It is also confidential and can be accessed at any time so it is convenient for the residents to use.  Here's a sign-up link.

Marvin also offers workshops for residents and faculty free of charge. Please see this flyer. They also have interactive webinars on a variety of topics such as positive psychology, distress tolerance, boundary setting, and interpersonal skills enhancement, or their staff can design specific workshops tailored to meet the needs of individual programs. Residency program directors may wish to contact Jacinta Harman, Marvin's Director of Clinical Services.

Marvin 24/7 On-Call Client Crisis Support Services:  888.404.1163

Marvin was recently promoted by ophthalmologist/TikTok sensation Dr. Glaucomflecken.

Warriors Strong Together

The WSU Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences is offering a new program providing free assistance for members of the WSU community who may be facing challenges coping with the demands of the pandemic.
Warriors Strong Together provides free mental health intervention to all faculty, staff and students of Wayne State University during this time. As an added convenience, the services are available by telephone or videoconferencing per the caller's preference.

Wayne State University Resources

City of Detroit Resources

Detroit Wayne County Mental Health Authority (DWCMHA)  800-241-4949 or 313-833-2500

ACGME Wellness Resources

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has created a webpage for residents and fellows that promotes a culture of physician well-being and provides support in the case of burnout, depression, or suicide.

  • The ACGME Council of Review Committee Residents (CRCR) designed the "Back to Bedside" initiative to empower residents and fellows to develop transformative projects that combat burnout by fostering meaning in their learning environments: engaging on a deeper level with what is at the heart of medicine: their patients.
  • The ACGME has a tools and resources web page dedicated to physician well-being.  Resources to support local efforts to improve resident, fellow, and faculty well-being can be found here.
  •  The ACGME has launched a new suite of resources devoted to physician well-being, called AWARE.  These resources focus primarily on individual strategies for cognitive skill-building. AWARE includes a video workshop, an phone app, and two podcasts.

AAMC Wellness Resources

AMA wellness resources to help boost your personal well-being

National Academy of Medicine

Personal Strategies

  • Focus on time and stress management, leadership and personal effectiveness skills:  Mind Tools
  • Residents are eligible for free access to Headspace, a meditation and mindfulness app that offers guided meditations, through AMA.
  • Tools on stress assessment, self-scoring 7-habits profile on current level of self-effectiveness, and 360 degree assessments for self-awareness: Franklin Covey
  • Journaling "can alleviate stress and act as a tool to help manage anxiety and depression."  How?  See this article in the August 2020 issue of the Ulliance newsletter.

Wellness Research:  Shapiro's Physician Wellness Hierarchy

Shapiro et al., Beyond Burnout: A Physician Wellness Hierarchy Designed to Prioritize Interventions at the Systems Level, American Journal of Medicine, 2019:   Burnout has been implicated in higher physician turnover, reduced patient satisfaction, and worsened safety, but understanding the degree of burnout in a given physician or team does not direct leaders to solutions. The model proposed in this article integrates a long list of variables that may ameliorate burnout into a prioritize easy-to-understand hierarchy. Modified from Maslow's hierarchy, the model directs leaders to address physicians' basic physical and mental health needs first; patient and physician physical safety second; and then address higher-order needs, including respect from colleagues, patients, processes, and the electronic health record; appreciation and connection; and finally, time and resources to heal patients and contribute to the greater good. Assessments based on this model will help leaders prioritize interventions and improve physician wellness.

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For information on GME's Resident Wellness Scale (RWS), click here.

The RWS is a 10-item scale empirically designed to measure a resident's wellness over the preceding 3 weeks. It was designed by GME researchers at Wayne State University and Loma Linda University in March 2017. The scale development and initial validity data are published here:

Send questions and comments to GMEWellness@wayne.edu

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