Supporting Resilience

Mindfulness and Meditation:

• Aura
• Calm
• Headspace - Headspace is offering all U.S. health care professionals free access to Headspace Plus in 2020
• Healthy Minds Program - from the UW-Madison Center for Healthy Minds
• Insight Timer
• Resilient Wisconsin - resources from the State of Wisconsin

Exercise and Fitness:

• AllTrails: Trail Guides & Maps
• FitnessBlender.com
• FitOn
• Wisconsin State Parks

Institutional Resources:

• SilverCloud
• UW Health Wellness Options at Work
• Well-being at UW
• UW-Madison Employee Assistance Office

Further Reading: 

• Stop Trying to Be Productive - New York Times
• That Discomfort You're Feeling is Grief - Harvard Business Review
• Creating a New Normal During Uncertain Times - UW Health
• Coronavirus and Mental Health: Taking Care of Ourselves During Infectious Disease Outbreaks - American Psychiatric Association
• Taking care of your mental health in the face of uncertainty - American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Department Resources:

• Battling Burnout: A Conversation on Physician Wellness - David Kushner, MD's podcast interview with the Women's Healthcast about what contributes to physician burnout, how it affects patients, and what medical systems are doing to help. 
• Beyond Burnout: From Denial to Acceptance to Physician Wellness Solutions (video) - David Kushner, MD, presents a UW Ob-Gyn Grand Rounds lecture on burnout and wellness. 

National Resources:

• National Academy of Medicine - Clinician Resilience and Wellbeing
• American Medical Association - Steps Forward

Ob-Gyn Wellness Committee priorities: 

Ob-Gyn After-Hours Email Guidelines (PDF)