Wellness Resources
Take Your Temp
- Take our anonymous,
interactive OHSU Stress and Depression Survey
How stressed are you? How would you score on depression and anxiety screening questions? Are you struggling with maintaining good health habits? Do you have questions about seeking counseling through our program? - Visit these sites to learn more about yourself
- Alcohol Intake
- Anxiety
- Burnout
- Depression
- Perfectionism (Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale in section below)
- Self-Compassion
- Stress
- Work life balance
Online Self-Help Resources
- University of Colorado Work and Well-Being Toolkit for Physicians
- Learn cognitive behavioral therapy skills for preventing and coping with depression
- The Science of Well-Being - Courera offered by Yale
Support Groups
- Mindful Medicine
Monthly support group and weekend retreats that aim to use evidence-based mindfulness skills relevant to health professionals to address burnout, empathy, and isolation. - OHSU Family Network
Network of spouses and families of Medical Students, Residents and Fellows. OHSU Family Network is a support group, playgroup, social group and an affiliate of the Oregon Medical Association Alliance. - Start Your Recovery (StartYourRecovery.org)
- Smart Recovery (CBT/secular)
- Alcoholics Anonymous
- Narcotics Anonymous
Relaxation and Sleep
Your work schedule at OHSU can be demanding and stressful. You may not be able to change your work schedule, but you can change how well your brain and body rests. If you have a hard time falling asleep, see below for relaxation apps and resources.
Sleep and Relaxation apps:
- Headspace
- Yogaglo
- Sleep Pillow for iTunes
- Naturespace for iTunes
- BreathPacer for iTunes
- Lightning Bug for Android
- Sleepy Time
"If [using a relaxation app] to help fall asleep, a general rule is that more irregular sounds (especially words) induce more fragmentation and arousal when people listen to them while trying to sleep. Noises that are more homogenized such as white noise can reduce sleep disruption from background noise and thus improve sleep." - Chad Hagen, M.D., OHSU Sleep Disorders Program
Books
These titles and many others are available in the RWP lending library.Contact Mary Moffit for more titles or to check out books. Download complete reading list
- Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most Douglas Stone
- Doctors' Marriages: A Look at the Problems and Their Solutions Michael F. Myers
- Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love Sue Johnson
- Present Perfect: A Mindfulness Approach to Letting Go of Perfectionism and the Need for Control Pavel Somov
- Mindful Eating Jan Chozen Bays, MD
- The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions Christopher K. Gerner
- Wherever You Go, There you Are Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Breaking the Stigma — A Physician's Perspective on Self-Care and Recovery Adam B. Hill, M.D.
Personal Best and Resilience Building Strategies
- Resilience Building Plan –Step by step guide written by RFWP
- Personal Best –by Atul Gawande, The New Yorker
- Failure and Rescue –by Atul Gawande, The New Yorker
- Mindfulness: Getting its Share of Attention –by David Hochman, The New York Times
- Editing Life's Stories Can Create Happier Endings - NPR
Perfectionism
Being an excellent health care provider is something we all strive to be. However, unreasonable expectations of perfection may actually set you up to be vulnerable when a mistake, adverse medical event occurs, or you receive critical feedback. Perfectionism can actually interfere with your ability to:
- Learn from setbacks and recover more quickly
- Have positive, healthy relationships with your colleagues and your friends and family
- Be productive. (hint: trying to be perfect often leads to procrastination)
How do you score on the Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale ?
Visit The Sen Lab
Learn more about University of Michigan investigator Dr. Srijan Sen's research on medical residents and depression and burnout including a great list of publications.