Emergency Medicine Physician Wellness‌ SAEM19 Didactics Have it Covered! In accordance with SAEM’s Statement on Commitment to Clinician Well-Being and Resilience, SAEM supports endeavors related to physical health and wellness and the fight against burnout. In alignment with that cause, the SAEM Wellness Committee in its inaugural year set as an objective to submit a number of wellness-, resilience-, and burnout-related didactics to SAEM19. The committee partnered with other committees, academies and RAMS to complete this objective. The accepted didactics are below. Add a wellness didactic to your SAEM19 schedule by following the link to SAEM19 Didactics on the SAEM19 Program Planner.
Not Another Yoga Class: Wellness Initiatives of Residency Programs (SAEM Wellness Committee Sponsored)
ANNUAL MEETING PREVIEW
May 16, 4 p.m.
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What are best practices for EM residency programs? What does the literature support and what do residents feel that they most need?The wellness committees of SAEM Resident and Medicals Students (RAMS) and the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association (EMRA) surveyed emergency medicine residents and medical students to find out what are wellness best practices for residency programs and what is the evidence supporting them? Topics may include: trade-offs between time off, team building and individual wellness; managing shift work, weekends and holidays; electronic medical record (EMR) efficiencies; recognizing and coming back from burnout; substance use and physicians; financial wellness for new graduates; victim blaming; financially survive residency; team management; litigation stress, and more.
Wellness, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity: The Wide and the Why...That is the Question (SAEM Wellness Committee, ADIEM, and AWAEM Sponsored)
May 17, 8 a.m. There has been proliferation in the literature addressing physician wellness and diversity, equity, and inclusion with emergency medicine being one of the top specialties suffering from burnout. Little has been discussed regarding the link among wellness, inclusion diversity and equity as they pertain to the underrepresented in medicine (URiM) and women. Downey et al, examined the belief that workplace well-being and engagement would be mediated by a trust climate that is stronger when employees experienced feelings of inclusion in the workplace. This workshop will address the unique challenges faced by URiM and women that impact their