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:

"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.