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Supporting Our People

This industry isn't just hard on patients - it's also mentally, emotionally, and physically demanding for practitioners. We're acknowledging the human side of medical practice and taking steps to change the culture, to improve everyone's wellbeing.

Fighting Physician Burnout

Better Doctors Through Poetry

More than half of physicians experience symptoms of burnout. Their emotional strain affects patients, work relationships, and personal lives, and the stress can literally be deadly, with physical effects like high blood pressure, headaches, insomnia, and weight gain, and mental ones like emotional exhaustion, lack of a sense of meaning at work, and suicide.

This is not a problem healthcare professionals can solve on their own. Emory is addressing systemic challenges from the top down by actively strengthening community, promoting autonomy, and allowing time for team members to pursue meaningful work. Our goal is to teach everyone about the risks, resources, and methods of self-care, to recognize the problem and provide interventions when needed.

What We're Doing to Help

We offer a range of support services for students, residents, fellows, and employees. Anyone can take advantage of one-on-one counseling, group workshops, and offsite and extra-hours consultation through the faculty staff assistance program, and our clinical facilities follow debriefing procedures to help providers reflect and grieve after traumatic cases.

These programs help our physicians deliver care with compassion and heal themselves as well as patients, while acknowledging the difficulties of the work that we do.

Featured Support Programs

Fitness Facilities

Discounted memberships to on-campus and local fitness centers for Emory employees and residents

Counseling Services

Personal counseling for individuals and families, career coaching, online self-assessment

A Safe Ride Home

Free Lyft rides for residents and fellows who are too fatigued to drive home after a long or hard shift

Lactation Rooms

Emory provides a number of lactation rooms on campus, including in the School of Medicine building and clinical sites

All-Gender Restrooms

At Emory, individuals may use bathrooms that most closely align with their gender identity. The Office of LGBT Life has compiled a list of all-gender or single-occupant bathrooms on campus.

Emory Medicine Magazine Feature Healing the Healers

Today's physicians and residents face stress, overwork, anxiety about making a mistake, and the emotional difficulties of providing care to people experiencing life and death situations. This in-depth look at the hazards of taking care of others shares personal stories from faculty, current research on physician burnout, and steps Emory is taking to change things.

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Healthy Emory

Healthy Emory offers programs and services that promote well-being, recreation, fitness, and healthy living across the Emory network

Student Health Services

Outpatient services, immunizations, information about the student health insurance plan, and other resources for Emory students

Faculty Staff Assistance Program

Programs like personal coaching, short-term counseling, stress management workshops, referrals to counselors or community support groups, and team services workshops.

Emory University Worklife Resource Center

Connections to help with child and adult care, workplace flexibility, financial programs, and work-life balance workshops.

Emory Express Care Center

Provides free evaluation and treatment of non-work related common illnesses

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