Project

Project Summary

Healthcare worker wellness includes a balance of psychological, social, and physical aspects of an individual’s life. The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the relevant challenges highlighted in my literature review. My personal experiences shadowing family medicine residents in the IU Health Physicians Family Medicine clinic downtown allowed me to observe the stresses and challenges healthcare workers face on a day-to-day basis. Physician wellness and well-being are an integral part of high-quality health care, thus needing to prevent burnout, emotional exhaustion, and mental health issues for healthcare workers. High-quality health care aligns with the four pillars of the Quadruple Aim: reducing cost, patient satisfaction, improved health, and provider satisfaction. Considering this, a more concrete definition of wellness and well-being is needed to inform initiatives and support for those working in medical settings.

Topics of articles in the bibliography:

• COVID-19

• Gender and age differences in burnout

• Systemic racism

• Integrated behavioral complex care clinics (behavior health + primary care)

• Identifying causes of burnout

• Burnout causes in female dermatologists

• Narrative-based medicine (NBM)