Julia McNabb-Baltar and Pooja Amarapurkar
Physicians face a wide range of cognitive and emotional demands daily. Beyond patient care, physicians juggle administrative duties, educational roles, research responsibilities, complex communication, and the emotional toll of their work. This cumulative mental effort is known as the mental load. Mental load can lead to cognitive overload, increased stress, and ultimately contribute to burnout. Despite its significance, mental load is rarely addressed explicitly in medical training or workplace wellness programs. This workshop aims to fill that gap by helping physicians recognize, understand, and manage their mental load through practical strategies. By doing so, physicians can enhance their resilience, improve focus, and maintain a sustainable, fulfilling career in medicine.
Megan Bradley and Priyanka Amin
Unexpected and challenging outcomes are an unavoidable reality of medical practice, yet physicians are rarely trained to navigate the emotional and professional aftermath. Many clinicians internalize guilt, fear, or shame, often in isolation, which contributes to burnout and moral injury. The facilitators will start off the session by engaging the audience via interactive polling surrounding their experiences with bad outcomes. A brief didactic portion discussing examples of bad outcomes and defining the second victim phenomenon will follow, including the impact of adverse events both personally and professionally. Participants will engage in scenarios and role-playing of conversations with patients/families or colleagues following adverse events. Facilitators will lead a guided exercise reviewing internal coping strategies and external supports, including both individual and departmental strategies to supporting colleagues following adverse events. The session will close with a review of available resources for support. Participants will be provided with a handout summarizing key topics from the session, including available resources.
Jose Abad, Gary Fischer, et al
This workshop focuses on physician personalization of tools within EpicCare. Participants will log in to their own live Production EpicCare accounts while workshop facilitators lead them through customization exercises. The session will accommodate participants both live and virtually through Microsoft Teams. The specific areas of customization covered will be tailored to participant needs and include: diagnosis, level of service (LOS), follow-up, and progress notes ‘Speed Buttons’; letter templates and default routing; In Basket QuickActions; ‘on-the-fly’ customizing orders on your preference list (including order panels); customizing SmartSets; procedure documentation macros; and Ambient AI. For each topic, we will demonstrate how it can help efficiency and walk users through building their own, with suggestions from workshop leaders for default choices. Facilitators will sit at-the-elbow with participants individually in person as needed.
Michelle Thompson
Physicians are trained to care for others, often at the expense of their own well-being. Rising burnout rates, moral injury, and chronic stress call for a transformative approach to how clinicians support their personal health and restore meaning in their work. This interactive workshop equips physicians with evidence-based strategies from Lifestyle Medicine, Integrative Medicine, and Mind-Body practices that promote resilience, enhance energy, improve emotional intelligence, and cultivate whole-person wellness.
Participants will explore actionable tools for improving sleep, nutrition, movement, social connection, and stress management, while also learning practical skills such as mindfulness, guided breathwork, gratitude practices, and cognitive reframing to reduce stress reactivity. We’ll also discuss how self-care is not self-indulgence but a professional competency central to patient care, safety, and longevity in practice.
This session blends clinical science, experiential learning, and peer connection to empower physicians to apply these principles immediately—in their own lives and within their healthcare teams. Attendees will leave with a personalized well-being plan and renewed clarity on how to thrive personally and professionally.
This session has been developed and is well-established for hybrid formats.
Amanda Artsen and Isabela (Cajiao) Angelelli
This workshop aims to make providers aware of current and ongoing healthcare environmental sustainability efforts, opportunities for personal and collective action, and create a community discussion around healthcare sustainability.
Our workshop will start with a survey to assess current knowledge and engagement around healthcare sustainability. We will then provide a brief educational presentation with the information needed to complete the above objectives including the process for obtaining a Green Unit Designation. We will then discuss in small groups current goals, barriers and ideas for applying these ideas to physicians practice. We will share these ideas with the larger group as well as provide additional ideas, resources and next steps.
Jose Abad, Gary Fisher, et al
This workshop focuses on physician personalization of tools within EpicCare. Participants will log in to their own live Production EpicCare accounts while workshop facilitators lead them through customization exercises. The session will accommodate participants both live and virtually through Microsoft Teams. The specific areas of customization covered will be tailored to participant needs and include: diagnosis, level of service (LOS), follow-up, and progress notes ‘Speed Buttons’; letter templates and default routing; In Basket QuickActions; ‘on-the-fly’ customizing orders on your preference list (including order panels); customizing SmartSets; procedure documentation macros; and Ambient AI. For each topic, we will demonstrate how it can help efficiency and walk users through building their own, with suggestions from workshop leaders for default choices. Facilitators will sit at-the-elbow with participants individually over Teams as needed.
Kristin Ondecko-Ligd and Denise Hall-Burton
Harassment, incivility, and disrespect were highlighted in the Association of American Medical College (AAMC)’s 2022 report, Understanding and Addressing Sexual Harassment in Academic Medicine. Nearly 33.7% of women and 12.5% of men experienced at least one incident of harassment in the previous 12 months. Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine and Surgery were specialties with more than 40% of physicians reporting sexual harassment, both in the AAMC’s 2022 publication and again in their 2024 The State of Women in Academic Medicine 2023-2024: Progressing Toward Equity. Della Lin et al. (JCJPSQ, 2024) indicated that 71.6% of perioperative survey respondents (anesthesiologists, surgeons, and other perioperative personnel) reported experiencing non-physical violence.
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