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Resources on Provider Resilience 

Self-Assessment Tools

Keeping tabs on your own psychological wellbeing is a crucial part of maintaining overall health and successfully working towards your goals, both personally and professionally. Psychological wellbeing is complex and fluid, and it can even shift from week to week (based on a variety of factors like physical health, work hours, rotation, or stress level), so it’s important to check in with yourself on a regular basis.

 

Mental Health

These handy self-assessment tools can help you to get a quick view on depression or anxiety symptoms and alcohol use. They can be used on a one-time basis, or to track changes across time. Click on the links below.

**We do not receive any of the data from any of the screeners listed on this website. The measures are operated through separate websites that are not affiliated with Downstate Medical Center.**

Burnout and Compassion Fatigue

While working as a physician can be rewarding, it also brings many specific stressors and challenges. We know that professionals working in a helping field are at risk for experiencing symptoms of burnout or compassion fatigue at some point in their career, with the most recent studies reporting that nearly 50% of all physicians are experiencing burnout.

 

Below is  a link to  a self-assessment on Professional Quality of Life Scale provided by ProQOL.org

Click on this link to self assess your overall quality of life at work, including compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and compassion satisfaction

Take the assessement; substitute [help] with [care for], [helped] with [cared for], [helper] with [physician], [helping] with [care giving]. Then procede to page three to score and back to page two for analysis.

ProQOL Self Assessment

 

Here are links to Provider Resilience Apps

Being more aware of signs of burnout can help prevent it. We recommend checking out the free, developed by the National Center for Telehealth and Technology. It includes the well validate PROQOL-5 trackers for resilience building factors as well as those that contribute to burnout or compassion fatigue.      Provider Resilience Phone App

 

Here is second App that may also be helpful:    MD edge - Federal Practitioner

 

 

CONFIDENTIAL HOTLINES
(Not affiliated with Downstate)

Employee and Physician Specific:

  • The Confidential Employee Assistance Program Hotline: 1-800-386-7055
    Committee on Physician’s Health: 518-436-4723 (day); 518-694-0002 (evening)

Mental Health

  • NYC Suicide Hotline: 1-888-NYC-WELL, or text WELL to 65173 (24 hours)
  • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 (24 hours)
  • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (Spanish): 1-800-628-9454 (24 hours)
  • Trans Lifeline (run by and for trans people): 877-565-8860, Hours: every day 10am-4am https://www.translifeline.org/

Other Supports

  • LGBT National Hotline: 1-888-843-4564 https://www.glbthotline.org/national-hotline.html Hours: Monday-Friday 4pm to midnight; Saturday: Noon to 5pm
    “We speak with callers of all ages about coming-out issues, gender identity, relationship concerns, bullying, workplace issues, HIV/AIDS anxiety and safer-sex information, and lots more!”
  • Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-621-HOPE (4673) https://www.thehotline.org/
  • National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline: 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) Or visit https://hotline.rainn.org/online/ to receive support via confidential online chat.