Well-Being | Graduate Medical Education | UC Davis School of Medicine

GME Resources Meet & Greet: Arrange for GME staff to present a brief overview of the GME Offices of Diversity, Resident and Fellow Development, Wellness, and Quality Improvement with Q&A.

Addressing Microaggressions as Residents and Fellows: Applied training on identifying and addressing microaggressions. Collaboration between Diversity, Development, and Wellness.

Critical Conversations: Arrange for an EDIB-themed discussion for residents and fellows (no faculty) facilitated by Dr. Erik Fernández y Garcia and Dr. Sheetal Shah. Topics are determined by residents, but it is a conversation/discussion of EDIB climate rather than a didactic / lecture.

Office Hours: Residents and fellows can contact Dr. Fernandez y Garcia to meet individually or in groups to discuss personal EDIB issues or projects.

Support for Events/Conferences: The Office of Student and Resident Diversity may be able to offer support to residents and fellows for conference attendance or EDIB event planning. In addition, residents and fellows can support OSRD recruiting activities like lecturing in pathway programs or mentoring medical students. Dr. Fernandez y Garcia can direct residents to the appropriate resources.

Academics

Navigating Evaluations: Being evaluated can be uncomfortable and sometimes the imposter shows up. Collect language and tools you can lean on when managing your performance. Collaboration with Wellness.

Strategies for Exam Prep: An overview of strategies for exam prep, including time management and how to best utilize practice exams and question banks.

Taking Charge of Your Exam Performance: Learn ways to reduce exam stress and anxiety to improve your exam performance. Collaboration with Wellness.

Productivity

Goal Setting: Learn about the WOOP model (Wish-Outcome-Obstacle-Plan) that asks you to name the benefits of your outcome, as well as anticipate, and plan for, the ways in which your plan will be challenged.

Managing Commitments: Explore the Commitment Inventory tool to bring intention to the commitments you carry, and learn techniques for evaluating requests, saying no, and sunsetting commitments professionally.

Setting Habits and Routines for Success: Discuss the science of habit formation and behavior change to establish sustainable routines that support your success, whether for studying or other academic or wellness practices.

Time Management Strategies: This workshop introduces high-yield strategies to manage your calendar, prioritize projects, and map tasks to time.

Understanding and Working through Procrastination: Process how procrastination can both cost and benefit us, as well as identify strategies to better take action. Collaboration with Wellness.

Leadership/Career

Career Design: Your 5 Year Plan(s): Using a design-thinking framework, participants will sketch out three iterations of their five-year plan, playing with creativity and possibility.

Leadership Styles: An effective leader has a repertoire of leadership styles beyond their “default” and utilizes them effectively for the given circumstance. Reflect on your own styles and those modeled around you. Collaboration with Wellness.

Leading with Emotional Intelligence: Using a strength-based leadership framework, we examine the dimensions of emotional intelligence and develop insight into our own EI strengths through the VIA Strengths Assessment tool. Collaboration with Wellness.

Maximizing Mentorship as a Mentor and Mentee: An overview of best practices to maximize mentorship as mentor and mentee, with time for reflection on mentorship successes and challenges. Includes case scenario discussion.

Values-Based Career Goals: A career in alignment with our values supports our professional fulfillment. Reflect on your core and acquired values, and explore how your career goals align, or could better align, with your values.

Mental Health

Burnout, Depression, and Substance Abuse: Education for faculty and residents/fellows in identifying symptoms of burnout, depression, and substance abuse, including means to assist those who experience these conditions. Required by ACGME.

Facilitated Debriefings on Unexpected/Adverse: Medical Outcomes A safe space for teams to process unexpected and difficult outcomes are provided.

Suicide Prevention: Recognizing the risk factors for suicide and how to be empowered to be a helpful bystander and support a colleague in distress.

Peer Support Training: How to apply psychological first aid to support colleagues.

Well-Being

How to Run a Well Team: Techniques senior residents can utilize to “Run a Well Team” are explored. Collaboration with Development.

Imposter Syndrome and Belonging in Residency: Identifying how thoughts of being an impostor and not belonging are common during training. Strategies to address these thoughts such as maintaining growth mindset and challenging problematic mindsets are presented.

Maintaining Relationships During Training: Navigating relationships during training can be challenging. Approaches and strategies that can be helpful are presented.

Managing Our Resilience Bank Account: Examine high-yield practices that support resilience, including ways to better incorporate such practices while navigating professional demands. Collaboration with Development.

Stress Management Strategies: How to use mindfulness, self-compassion, and gratitude to support well-being.

Support Group for Partners and Spouses: Groups that allow partners and spouses to process the impact of training.

QI Project Design and Support: Technical assistance, trouble-shooting, and advice for residents/fellows and faculty who are planning or implementing quality improvement projects and initiatives.

Developing Interpersonal Communication Skills with Trainees (CME Credit): Learn and practice techniques to support trainees in the context of a professionalism lapse and/or interpersonal communication challenges. 90 minutes, CME units available.

A Coach Approach to Mentorship: Coaching is a communication and support style that leads with reflective listening and open-ended questions to center the client as their own problem solver. Explore how coaching skills can strengthen your mentoring toolkit and facilitate partnership between you and your mentee.

Failing Forward: Cultivating Growth Mindset and Mitigating Imposter Experience: Discuss best practices for delivering feedback in the clinical setting while exploring ways to help learners cultivate a growth mindset and mitigate imposter experience.