Physicians Anonymous offerings for physicians, residents, and medical students
Working in modern medicine is making health care practitioners sick, and COVID has made it worse.
About half of us physicians reported burnout before COVID and over 60% afterwards. Suicide among physicians is double that of the general population.
Struggling doctors do not seek help. We are afraid of career damage or losing our licenses. We do not trust EAPs and fear confidentiality breaches.
Physicians Anonymous is a third-party group offering both prevention and management of physician burnout and distress. Our services are science-based, completely confidential, and flex according to your personal needs.
Because we offer coaching, mentoring, and peer support, nothing goes on your medical or insurance record.
Coaching and mentoring for clinicians - with the option to stay anonymous
Free support group meetings for those clinicians who wish to stay anonymous
We offer 1:1 coaching for specific physician needs (both preventive and early intervention), and 1:1 mentoring for medical students and residents (who are matched with experienced third-party clinician mentors for the duration of their training).
Scientific evidence shows that physician coaching reduces emotional exhaustion, imposter syndrome, stress, and burnout. It also improves self- compassion. Evidence continues to emerge of the benefits of coaching in supporting overworked physicians and doctors-to-be.
Physicians Anonymous offers a range of doctor-designed and evidence-based clinical coaching programs spanning the medical career:
We teach Cognitive and Positive Psychology skills to reframe the challenges of a modern medical career.
We use evidence-based techniques proven to reduce burnout, emotional exhaustion, and imposter syndrome.
Our coachees go on a journey of personal development in a safe space, emerging healthier and happier doctors
In so doing we enhance physician resilience & wellbeing and cultivate thriving careers in medicine.
We also provide free anonymous coaching-based peer-support group meetings in confidential virtual spaces with other health care practitioners who understand their pain but do not need to know their name.
“No name, no shame.”
Regular peer-support group engagement reduces physician isolation, builds relationships, models positive coping behaviors, and may create cohesive groups that can mature over time and with shared challenges. A sense of camaraderie and mutual support grows.
We are intent on developing self-sustaining physician communities which grow at the speed of trust across the US and the world.
More than half of health care practitioners would meet the criteria of a mental health diagnosis. However, we are too afraid to seek treatment because it would show up on our licencing records.
Physicians Anonymous provides coaching; therefore, if you engage in our services, it will not show up on your records. You will be our client, and not our patient. You will receive coaching, and not treatment. Our coaches include physicians who are also certified coaches and psychologists with decades of experience.
Importantly, all have their own burnout stories and how they tackled burnout. Some are recovering addict physicians. All our coaches and mentors have been there, done that, and came out as a new person.
If you are a health care practitioner struggling with burnout and related problems, reach out to Physicians Anonymous. We are here to help you.
And most importantly: you can stay anonymous. This is the power of burnout coaching with Physicians Anonymous!
In the meanwhile, physicians are here, suffering, right now. We are working ourselves within this toxic system into burnout, mental illness, addiction, and an early grave. We need to find ways to not only survive from shift to shift, but find joy and meaning in modern medicine. This is what we offer.
The science and years of experience in Physician Well-being tell us that what we offer works to reduce burnout, emotional exhaustion, impostor syndrome. It improves self-compassion.
Our work pre-emptively cultivates thriving, rather than surviving, physicians.
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