Mental Health as a Vital Sign: Addressing Health Professionals' Suicide Risk and Enhancing Mental Health
Free Online CME
Learn organizational strategies to reduce the suicide risk among health workers and other colleagues.
Earn up to 1.75 Prescribed credits through April 1, 2029.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe physician mental health as a vital sign and explain its impact on clinical decision-making, patient safety, and quality of care in family medicine.
- Discuss personalized, proactive strategies for optimizing mental health and protecting against suicide risk for all people.
- Demonstrate when and how to initiate a supportive conversation with a colleague whose mental health may be affecting professional performance or patient care.
- Identify organizational strategies within family medicine practices and training environments that reduce suicide risk, promote psychological safety, and support effective patient care.
Mental Health as a Vital Sign: Addressing Health Professionals' Suicide Risk & Enhancing Mental Health
Christine Yu Moutier, MD - Chief Medical Officer at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP)
The AAFP has reviewed Mental Health as a Vital Sign: Addressing Health Professionals' Suicide Risk & Enhancing Mental Health and deemed it acceptable for up to 1.75 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed credit(s). Term of Approval is from 04/01/2026 to 04/01/2029. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The AAFP is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Academy of Family Physicians designates this Enduring Materials for a maximum of 1.75 AMA PRA Category 1 credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
CME activities approved for AAFP credit are recognized by the AOA as equivalent to AOA Category 2 credit.
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