Practicing medicine can be highly stressful as doctors face day-to-day challenges with emotional stress and work burnout. This can impact one’s personal, practice or family life.
Even before COVID-19, physician stress and burnout were epidemic. Physician stress and burnout not only affects the health care providers, but also the patients they treat. Quite simply, physician burnout has devastating effects on the access, quality, and cost of our country’s health care.
Physician wellness encompasses physical and mental wellbeing, job satisfaction and productivity, and organizational approaches to wellbeing and creating a healthy workplace. Addressing burnout can lead to healthier providers, less provider turnover, lower costs, and better patient outcomes. Kent County Medical Society strives to support health care providers through the following programs and resources.
MSMS Resource
AMA Resources
- AMA Steps Forward™
- AMA Physician Wellness Program
- AMA Physician Burnout
- AMA Creating Thriving Physician Practices