Miss a PHF Live Webinar? Now You Can View It
‘On Demand’
Free Physician Health First® CME Activities Offer Prescribed Credit
May 2, 2024, News Staff — Survey after survey has shown that family physicians and other primary care physicians and physicians-in-training are among the medical specialists most affected by work-related stress and professional burnout. To answer this ongoing challenge, the AAFP designs and develops resources and tools to support members in improving their personal well-being and that of their practice colleagues. Until recently, however, some of those resources had been available only as one-and-done webinars, so if you missed the live event, you were out of luck.
Well, no more! The AAFP this month began offering recordings of those webinars — part of the Physician Health First® webinar series — as free on-demand CME. Each activity offers one (1) Prescribed CME credit. Here’s a brief rundown of what’s now available and what is still to come:
Advancing Well-being: Led by Catherine Florio Pipas, M.D., M.P.H., FAAFP, this session covers what we know about burnout and what we can offer to help you commit to a healthier work-life balance for yourself and your team. Pipas is chair of the Academy’s Physician Health First initiative and co-chair of the Leading Physician Well-being Certificate program. Key topics she will cover during the session include recognizing the characteristics of burnout, classifying factors that lead to personal and staff burnout, and exploring proven solutions to foster well-being.
No One Should Care Alone: According to course faculty Mark Greenawald, M.D., FAAFP, and Ada Stewart, M.D., FAAFP, the negative effects of physician burnout are well established, but the toll exacted by physician loneliness and disconnection is not. Greenawald, director of the upcoming Physician Health and Well-being Conference, and Stewart, a featured conference speaker, will outline the essential role of professional connection in combating professional distress and teach proactive interventions you can put into place to improve connections within your practice.
Choose Yourself Care: Mental Health: There’s no question that family physicians have experienced heightened stress and increased physician burnout over the past several years. In this session, LPW Scholars Hani Chaabo, M.D., FAAFP, ABOIM, and Michelle Owens, D.O., FFAAFP, AAHPM, discuss how trauma affects our mental health and discuss healthy ways to cope. Join them to learn to recognize and avoid maladaptive behaviors, practice self-compassion, and utilize self-reflection tools.
Breaking Down Professional Stigma: Despite recent progress, shame about mental illness persists and affects how and when people — including physicians — seek care. In this session, family physician experts Alexandria Arvon, M.D.; Angela Rodgers, M.D., FAAFP; and Janet West, M.D., FAAFP, focus on the importance of reducing stigma surrounding mental health, helping you identify how it shows up in your life and giving you tools to reduce it in your daily life. Julie Harrison, M.P.P., senior manager for the AAFP Center for State Policy, also shares how the AAFP is combating professional stigma.
Two more live webinars are scheduled: The Power in Your Personal Narrative, 6:30-7:30 p.m. on May 22, and Choose Yourself Care: Physical Health on Aug. 16. Registration is open for the May 22 webinar, which will be led by James MacDonald, M.D., M.P.H., FAAFP, and Lauren Brown-Berchtold, M.D., FAAFP.
Remember, if you can’t work the live webinar into your schedule, the on-demand version will be available about 10 days later. Find these and more AAFP well-being CME activities in various formats.