Member Wellness

2024 VCH Physician Wellness Survey

Resources to support well-being in your division/department

Mayo Clinic Strategies to Reduce Burnout: 12 Actions to Create the Ideal Workplace by Dr. Stephen Swensen and Dr. Tait Shanafelt - borrow an e-book version for up to one week through the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC (you will need your login details).

Institute for Healthcare Improvement IHI Tool - "What Matters to You?" Conversation Guide for Improving Joy in Work

Institute for Healthcare Improvement Framework for Improving Joy in Work

Mayo Clinic Strategies to Reduce Burnout: 12 Actions to Create the Ideal Workplace

Mayo Clinic - Executive Leadership and Physician Well-being: Nine Organizational Strategies to Promote Engagement and Reduce Burnout

Well-being 2.0: Where are we and where are we going? by Dr. Tait Shanafelt

The Stanford Model of Professional Fulfilment

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Skills Physician Wellness Group Training

Peer support programs

VCH's Physician Peer Supporter Program

Vancouver DoFP Peer Supporter Program

Spiritual care resources

VCH Regional Director of Spiritual Care and Multi-faith Services Doug Longstaffe can be reached atDoug.Longstaffe@vch.ca
The general email address for the team is spiritualcare@vch.ca
VCH’s Spiritual Care and Multi-faith Services main office is on the second floor of the Doctors Residence at VGH (2775 Heather Street).
The office phone number is 604-875-4151.
Spiritual Care and Multi-Faith Services staff members are onsite at all three Vancouver Acute facilities (VGH, UBCH and GF Strong) as well as a person connected with the Vancouver Community palliative care program and another with the Home Health program and some of VC’s long-term care homes.
The service is anonymous; records are kept about workload measurements, but no notes or personal information of staff/physicians supported are kept.

Resources

A Short History of Spiritual Care at VGH

Five Steps to Authentic Partnering: Addressing Issues of System and Community

The Inter-Professional Pie Model: An Alternative to Pyramidal Approaches

Explanation of Swirl Model of Patient’s Journey with a Spiritual Care Practitioner