To explore strategies that improve doctors’ wellbeing, optimising their mental health and productivity – USA, Canada, Belgium

Results

A few major themes emerged from my interviews:

• Conceptual frameworks for the drivers and solutions to adverse clinician wellbeing
• The importance of measurement to both assessing clinician wellness and its impacts, and designing and evaluating solutions
• The critical role of leadership support to the growth and success of programs, and ways in which leadership support can be obtained
• Interventions are most successful when they target locally important causes and harness local strength and skills 

Dissemination and implementation

• This report will be freely available to the public from the Churchill Trust website.
• I will present my Fellowship findings at local, regional, and international meetings
• I have interrupted my anaesthetic training to take up the position of Wellbeing Project Lead with health technology start-up MedApps Pty Ltd. This company, founded by doctors, makes mobile applications designed to improve the working lives and wellbeing of clinicians. The company’s flagship application Resident Guide has a user base of 2,500 Australian doctors-in-training that is rapidly growing, providing an incredible opportunity to implement large-scale wellbeing interventions for an especially vulnerable group of doctors, and offering a potential platform for longitudinal data collection.
• I will maintain active membership of committees and working groups with the Australian Medical Association, advocating for doctors’ welfare.
• I will continue to communicate and collaborate with individuals and teams from the international research community to maintain a global dialogue around clinician welfare
• I will engage with Australian metal health organisations such as Everymind and the Black Dog Institute that have been engaged by government bodies to research and implement wellbeing solutions for clinicians.