Wellness
Our goal at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (ISMMS) is to create a learning environment that recognizes, values, and rewards wellness activities and efforts to enhance them. We stress the importance of taking the best possible care of our patients and believe this cannot be achieved without learning how to take care of ourselves, each other, and the entire ISMMS community. We will use this space to share our efforts to align the culture of academic medicine at ISMMS with a holistic approach to learning, training, and the practice of medicine, and hope to create a more meaningful dialogue about these issues.
Fostering “Open Spaces”—An Assessment on Wellness
In March 2018, the Department of Medical Education Wellness Subcommittee debuted “Open Spaces”—a hands-on wellness event offered to Medical Education employees as a component of the Wellness Needs Assessment. Following the Employee Wellness Survey and a...
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Finding “Chi” for Medical Education—An Assessment on Wellness
Since the launch of the Department of Medical Education’s Employee Wellness Needs Assessment, the Department of Medical Education Wellness Subcommittee has continued its task of gathering information from our community about current wellness status, perceptions about...
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Discovering the Challenges to Create Interventions—An Assessment on Wellness
Since June 2017, the Department of Medical Education’s Employee Wellness Subcommittee has been meeting on a semi-monthly basis to design a multi-method Wellness Needs Assessment for employees from across the department. At the Medical Education Departmental Meeting in...
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Leadership Letters: Expanding Mental Health and Wellness Resources
Dear Students, It has been a little over one year since Kathryn’s death, and a little less than six months since we shared the final report with Dean Charney titled, The Dean’s Task Force on the Learning Environment: Enhancing Well-Being and Changing Culture. We are...
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Wellness—Now and For All
In June, the Department of Medical Education created a Wellness Subcommittee to assist in launching the Department of Medical Education Wellness Program. A department-wide invitation to form the Subcommittee was enthusiastically accepted by 20 individuals from various...
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Enhancing Well-Being and Changing Culture—A Task Force Report
In this past year, our community has experienced a number of tragedies and events that have led us to reflect on the adequacy of well-being resources and mental health support for all our trainees. In response to this call for action, Dean Charney created the Dean’s...
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Update on the Wellness Task Force
Earlier this week the Dean’s Task Force on the Learning Environment met so that each of the three working groups could provide an update on progress they’ve made to date. We want to acknowledge the enormous investment of time and energy that all members of these...
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Wellness Task Force in Full Effect
On Friday, October 7, we held the first meeting of the Dean’s Task Force on the Learning Environment: Enhancing Well-Being and Changing Culture. The task force will address three important topics: mental health, well-being, and academic culture change at the Icahn...
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Introducing a Task Force on Wellness
This past year, our community has experienced a number of tragedies that have led us to reflect on the adequacy of well-being resources and mental health support for our trainees. We are forming a Dean’s Task Force to address these issues and have attached the Task...
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