Resources
Dr. Nancy Merrow, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP, G(CEC)
Your journey. Your choices. Your success.
Inspiration & Ideas for Self Care, Healing and Wellbeing
Also Human
The Inner Lives of Doctors, Caroline Elton
Compassionate Leadership
Sustaining Wisdom, Humanity and Presence in Health and Social Care, Michael A. West
Experience Life Magazine
“Healthy, Happy, For Real” – content focused on enjoyment of a balanced, sustainable, deeply satisfying way of life.
Irondoc
Practical Stress Management for Physicians, Mamta Gautam
Mindful MD
6 Ways mindfulness restores your autonomy and cures healthcare burnout, Gail Gazelle
Stolen Focus
Why You Can’t Pay Attention – and How to Think Deeply Again, Johann Hari
The Resilient Physician
Effective Emotional Management for Doctors and Their Medical Organizations – a timeless classis that was ahead of its time in 2002, William and Mary Sotile
The School of Life
Posts, books, articles and programs to help achieve calm, self-understanding, better relationships, deeper friendships, greater effectiveness at work and more fulfilment in your leisure time.
Tomorrowmind
Thriving at Work with Resilience, Creativity and Connection – Now and in an Uncertain Future, Gabriella Rosen-Kellerman and Martin Seligman
What Doctors Feel
How Emotions Affect the Practice of Medicine, Danielle Ofri
Medical Leadership Training and Development
Exploring some of these resources will help you find what is useful to you depending on your stage of leadership development. All of these are designed for busy clinician leaders.
Canadian Medical Association Physician Leadership Institute
A curriculum of professional development offerings across Canada.
Canadian Society of Physician Leaders
Connect with your colleagues, learn from the journal and annual conference.
Rotman Advanced Health Leadership
May be sponsored by healthcare organizations.
Coaching
Browse the current literature about what coaching is and how it can benefit professionals.
Does coaching work?
A meta-analysis on the effects of coaching on individual level outcomes in an organizational context. The Journal of Positive Psychology. Tim Theeboom, Bianca Beersma & Annelies E.M. van Vianen (2014)
Effect of a Professional Coaching Intervention on the Well-being and Distress of Physicians
A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Intern Med. 2019. Dyrbye LN, Shanafelt TD, Gill PR, Satele DV, West CP.
The coaching ripple effect: The effects of developmental coaching on wellbeing across organisational networks
O’Connor, S., Cavanagh, M. Psych Well-Being 3, 2 (2013).