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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

2/ This month’s summary includes papers on digital and web-based interventions for physician stress and burnout, moral distress among resident physicians, the cost of nurse turnover, and more …

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

1/ Welcome to Edition 324 of West’s Well-Being Wednesday! Today, the August 2026 issue of Healthcare Well-Being Offerings – sign up to receive monthly update emails. www.healthcarewellbeing.org/august-2026

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September2025 | Enhance Healthcare Well-Being Today — Healthcare Well-Being Offerings

Explore expert articles and initiatives on improving healthcare professional well-being, reducing burnout, and promoting satisfaction in medical environments.

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

6/ A key factor associated with higher burnout risk was stress related to uncompensated service work. It is often said that academic work runs on discretionary effort, which is a polite way of saying “uncompensated but expected work” – this study suggests that this extra effort may have consequences

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

1/ Welcome to Edition 323 of West’s Well-Being Wednesday! Today, a study from Lauren Peccoralo @jmdepierro.bsky.social Ki Goosens at Mount Sinai School of Medicine about well-being among biomedical research faculty www.ovid.com/jnls/joem/fu...

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Factors Associated with Burnout, Low Professional... : Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine

Objective:This study assessed the prevalence and correlates of burnout (BO), low professional fulfillment (PF), and intention to leave (ITL) among...

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Factors Associated with Burnout, Low Professional... : Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine

Objective:This study assessed the prevalence and correlates of burnout (BO), low professional fulfillment (PF), and intention to leave (ITL) among...

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Academic Medicine @acadmedjournal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We want to kick off #PeerReviewWeek by thanking all of our reviewers! 🎉 We couldn't do what we do without you! For a list of everyone who reviewed at least one manuscript in 2025, see: bit.ly/4yqfyAL. #PeerReview #ScholarlyPublishing @peerreviewweek.bsky.social

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

5/ From August 27, reducing barriers to mental health care for physicians @jama.com bsky.app/profile/coli...

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

4/ From August 20, our RCT on wearables and burnout in @jamanetworkopen.com bsky.app/profile/coli...

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

3/ From August 13, a look back at prior threads on optimizing performance, key themes in well-being, and more bsky.app/profile/coli...

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

2/ From August 6, my editorial on sacrifice and self, in @acadmedjournal.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/coli...

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

1/ Welcome to Edition 322 of West’s Well-Being Wednesday! Today I’ll review threads and content from August 2025 on the limits of sacrifice in a medical career, wearables and burnout, reducing barriers to mental health care for physicians, and much more

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

4/ The cost of struggling or suffering employees: $20M for every 10,000 workers. Still think you can’t afford to invest in well-being? You can’t afford NOT to!

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

2/ This builds on the thread from a few weeks ago bsky.app/profile/coli...

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

1/ Welcome to Edition 321 of West’s Well-Being Wednesday! Today I’ll bring forward some more information on employee well-being from @gallup.com www.gallup.com/workplace/21...

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Employees Need High Wellbeing for High Performance

Create more than a wellness program, create a true culture of well-being. Develop a comprehensive program that improves employees' lives and business outcomes.

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

7/ “Medical education aspires to develop physicians who dedicate their careers to alleviating human distress. It is a stark institutional contradiction when the very systems charged with this formation do not protect their learners from preventable distress born of unmet basic needs.”

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

6/ Potential solution reflect the complexity of the factors involved: academic.oup.com/view-large/5...

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Table 1 Open in new tab Sample... | Oxford Academic

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

1/ Welcome to Edition 319 of West’s Well-Being Wednesday! Today, the July 2026 issue of Healthcare Well-Being Offerings – sign up to receive monthly update emails. www.healthcarewellbeing.org/july-2026

healthcarewellbeing.org

September2025 | Enhance Healthcare Well-Being Today — Healthcare Well-Being Offerings

Explore expert articles and initiatives on improving healthcare professional well-being, reducing burnout, and promoting satisfaction in medical environments.

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

11/ By monitoring wellbeing, leaders can: • identify rising risk early • evaluate whether changes are working • focus resources where they matter most Measurement turns wellbeing from an aspiration into a manageable, measurable part of organizational performance.”

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

10/ … Gallup’s research shows that organizations make the most progress when they measure wellbeing consistently, track changes over time and adjust employee wellbeing initiatives based on what employees are experiencing. …

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

9/ As they write at the end of their summary, “Wellbeing improvement requires ongoing attention. …

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

8/ Measuring “consistently over time” allows leaders to “track wellbeing trends, assess progress and understand how workplace changes affect employees’ lives”

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

5/ 3. Gallup’s “model” of different dimensions of well-being aligns fairly well with models in medicine such as the Mayo Clinic strategic framework, but ours allows better mapping to our specific culture and employee voice www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S002...

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Charting a New Path Forward in Addressing Employee Well-being in Health Care

Health care worker well-being is critical to delivering optimal care to our patients. With greater understanding of these issues, evidence-informed models of employee well-being have been developed to...

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

4/ 2. The main drivers of employee well-being relate to how management and job design support the “MVPs of Well-Being” (my phrase but they call out meaning and purpose in their summary). This drives career well-being.

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

2/ Gallup is not my usual first source of expertise for medical profession well-being, but it’s interesting to see how aligned employee well-being principles have become across professions – in the next few posts I’ll outline the key points in their take

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

1/ Welcome to Edition 318 of West’s Well-Being Wednesday! Today I’ll go in a different direction than usual and share takeaways from the @gallup.com summary on employee well-being www.gallup.com/workplace/40...

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Employee Wellbeing Strategy: A Practical Guide

Learn what employee wellbeing is, why it matters to organizational performance, and how to measure and improve it.

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Academic Medicine @acadmedjournal.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

📢 New editorial: Addressing financial, housing, and food insecurity to help medical trainees achieve their full potential: bit.ly/4xe1Sbi. #MedEd #MedSky

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Employee Wellbeing Strategy: A Practical Guide

Learn what employee wellbeing is, why it matters to organizational performance, and how to measure and improve it.

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

6/ From July 30, a recap of older threads on academic surgeon mental health, medical student well-being versus their peer college graduates, and other topics x.com/ColinWestMDP...

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Colin West (@ColinWestMDPhD) on X

1/ Welcome to Edition 264 of West’s #WellBeingWednesday! Today I’ll review threads and content from April 2024: academic surgeon mental health, medical student well-being relative to peer college grad...

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

1/ Welcome to Edition 317 of West’s Well-Being Wednesday! Today I’ll review threads and content from July 2025 on principles to advance occupational well-being in health care, and much more.

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

1/ Welcome to Edition 317 of West’s Well-Being Wednesday! Today I’ll review threads and content from July 2025 on principles to advance occupational well-being in health care, and much more.

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

7/ It takes all of us, and I’m grateful for each and every partner on this journey. May we forever continue to learn from one another, lift each other up, and care for our patients by caring for the entire healthcare team.

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

5/ It has been incredibly gratifying to see attention to these issues grow in so many crucial directions – data, yes ... but also narrative, humanity, morality, and so many more aspects all represented, with the constant “North Star” being helping patients receive the care they deserve

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

9/ Why task load is higher among female physicians needs further study – proposed factors include more incremental and often unrecognized “invisible work”, different patient populations, and competing work-home obligations

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

8/ With all of these factors considered together, results suggested that physician task load differences by gender may partially account for gender differences in burnout and professional fulfillment

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

6/ Adjusting for task load, female physicians were less likely to have high professional fulfillment (OR 0.74) and more likely to have burnout (OR 1.36, both p<.001)

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Colin West @colinwestmdphd.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

3/ The total median TLX score of 67.5 for physicians is markedly higher than reported values across job roles, with a median of 43 – this correlates strongly with burnout www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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