Mental Health Resources for Physicians

Being an emergency physician means coming into contact with traumatic stress many times a day, every day, for the course of a careers. Taking care of yourself helps you take care of your patients better. Here are collected resources that may help you.

ACEP Resources

• Wellness Section
• Wellness Week
• Well-Being Committee
• Emergency Physician Resilience
• Helping Others Overcome Burnout
• Get Some Sleep! Shiftwork Sleep Disorder
• Coping with EMR Stress 
• Tactics for Managing Emotionally Difficult Cases
• Recognizing The Road To Burnout, And What To Do
• The Burden of Burnout
• How Physicians, Health Care Workers Can Handle Depression, Burnout, and Suicidal Thoughts
• Physician Suicide
• Litigation Stress Resources
• Burnout Resources
• Health Care Provider PTSD 
• Health Resources For Emergency Physicians
• Wellness In The Workplace
• Wellness Throughout Your Emergency Medicine Career
• ACEP Wellness Shirts & Gear
• CORD National Physician Suicide Awareness Day
• CORD Wellness Resources
• CORD Wellness Champions
• CORD Wellness Videos
• CORD Mini-Fellowship in Wellness Leadership
• CORD Suicide Prevention and Postvention Resources

External Resources

• Physician Suicide Overview
• Physicians Have The Highest Professional Suicide Rate
• The Scourge of Physician Suicide
• How Medicine Fails Physicians With Mental Health Crises
• It's Not Just Another Physician Suicide
• What I've Learned From Studying Physician Suicide
• When Doctors Commit Suicide, Its Often Covered Up
• Suicide is Much Too High For US Physicians
• Doctors Reckon with Profession High Suicide Rates
• Health Care Professional Burnout and Suicide
• National Suicide Prevention Month
• PPE and Wellness in the ED
• The Amazing Way this Hospital is Battling Physician Burnout
• Alarming Report of Physician Burnout (VIDEO)
• 4 Main Causes of Physician Burnout (VIDEO)
• SGEM Burnout (VIDEO)
• Physician Career Satisfaction & Work-Life Balance (VIDEO)
• What to Expect From Litigation (VIDEO)
• Why EPs Get Sued (VIDEO)
• Compassion Fatigue (VIDEO)
• What is Compassion Fatigue? (VIDEO)
• What is an Impaired Physician? (VIDEO)
• How to Recognize A Drug-Impaired Coworker (VIDEO)