ACGME AWARE
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Campus Assistance Program
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The mission of the LSUHSC Campus Assistance Program (CAP) is to support the mental, emotional, and physical well-being of students, faculty, staff, and immediate family members in order to promote the overall health and effectiveness of the LSUHSC-NO community.
The Campus Assistance Program is a free service provided by LSU Health Sciences Center at New Orleans to assist faculty, staff, residents, students and their immediate family members in resolving personal, academic or work related problems. Faculty, staff or residents who are enrolled or employed with LSUHSC-NO programs in other cities are also eligible for CAP services.
LSUHSC-NO recognizes that everyone, at sometime, needs a “helping hand” or assistance. Whether you have a simple or a complex problem, the Campus Assistance Program can help.
A counselor is on call 24 hours a day to assist in time of crisis. If you feel you have an emergency or need immediate assistance at any time, contact the counselor on call by following the instructions on the main line (504) 568-8888.
LSU Wellness Krewe:
Self-Care for Healthcare
Mission Statement
The goal of the LSUHSC Wellness Committee is to promote a healthy learning and working environment, building resiliency, and personal well-being among faculty, staff, residents, and students in LSUHSC School of Medicine and the Health Sciences Center.
Healthcare professionals are exposed to high levels of distress in the course of their profession and are particularly susceptible to experiencing burnout, which is a state of physical, emotional or mental exhaustion combined with doubts about your competence and the value of your work. Burnout is not the only consequence of high levels of distress. Other related conditions include depression, substance abuse and suicide.
Healthcare professionals experiencing prolonged and high levels of distress are reported to be at a higher risk of making poor decisions, displaying hostile attitudes toward patients, making more medical errors, and having difficult relationships with co-workers. All of this impacts our own emotional health and well-being as well as the people around us.
Remember, you’re an individual, not just a healthcare professional. As individuals, we are happiest when making healthy lifestyle choices. Taking care of ourselves will in turn improve patient care, our own relationships and the LSUHSC community. When we take care of ourselves our communication is better, we make better decisions, errors are decreased and we have a better attitude.
The content within the wellness committee website offers information on well-being, stress, depression, alcohol use, suicide, mindfulness, PTSD, work-life balance and other resources that are helpful for our working community. Take a look at the information, think about areas within your daily routines that may be beneficial to change, and consider implementing these strategies.
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LSUHSC Psychiatry Department
In light of the developing COVID-19 pandemic, the LSUHSC Psychiatry department will be offering virtual Psychological First Aid groups to support medical personnel. Groups will be free, brief (1 hour), and focused on reducing initial distress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to foster short- and long-term adaptive functioning and coping. Groups will be divided to include either staff only, faculty only, or residents only to encourage open communication among group members. Each group will be limited to 15 members with two co-facilitators. We will be offering groups throughout the week and on weekends.
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If all group slots are currently filled, check back later today or tomorrow. Groups will be continuously added to the schedule until a recurring group schedule is established.
Headspace
Free access to Headspace w/ a NPI number: https://www.headspace.com/health-covid-19
If you don't know your NPI number, just google "your name NPI"
Facebook Groups:
Lives of Doctors Wives
AMA Alliance
AMA Alliance Young Physicians Network
Sig O's of MDs and Dos
Nurturing Medical Marriages
Websites:
https://physicianfamily.com/medical-marriage - Contains books and podcasts by medical marriage experts. Parenting, and self-care, are also major topics.
http://www.themrsbehindthemd.com/resources/
Podcasts: https://marriedtodoctors.com/covid-19-and-physician-families/ Released March 16, 2020
Marriedtodoctors.com with podcasts listed on site.
Journal Articles:
Male Spouses of Women Physicians: Communication, Compromise, and Carving Out Time - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4238294/
Message Boards:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MedSpouse/
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