Residency Program Wellness

program and fellowship director resources

The AAN and neurology programs are working together to create resources to promote wellness for neurology residents and fellows. To propose a contribution, please contact Ben Stoddart, the staff liaison.

Physician Resources

American Academy of Neurology

American Medical Association

American Psychological Association Well-being 

Brown University Faculty/Staff Assistance Program

Burnout and Wellness Education

A comprehensive collection of landmark articles and pertinent evidence-based literature that reviews burnout in neurology, trainees (residents and fellows), and various initiatives and mitigation strategies, with emphasis on academic organizations such as ACGME.

Wellness Tools and Resources for Your Residency Program

The following strategies are some suggested wellness intervention techniques that are easy for individual residency and fellowship programs to implement. They can be leveraged as a framework to:

  1. Develop into stand-alone projects for an individual resident, fellow, or faculty member. 
  2. Be incorporated into periodic wellness sessions to be led by chief resident/program director/wellness QI project champion. The intent of these resources is to empower residency and fellowship programs in customizing their wellness interventions and making it easy for them to highlight their wellness initiatives to ACGME and supervisor (program director/department chair) during professional evaluations.

Resources to Consider:

Physicians Burnout & Resident Wellness Modules

The intent of this document is to serve as a reference to be incorporated into burnout/wellness related sessions in a neurology residency/fellowship program's resident didactic series.

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Several pages can also serve as independent resources for developing academic wellness quality improvement projects.

  • Worksheets for Residents/Fellows (Page 11-17)
  • Worksheet for Wellness QI Project (Page 18)

Case Studies

Find examples of implementing wellness into resident programs from three programs doing it well.

Program at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Program at Washington University in St. Louis, MO
Program at University of California, Davis

AAN Wellness Resources

Access more resources created by the AAN for individuals and organizations to help you thrive in your neurology career.

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