We are working with members and trainees to highlight the importance of wellbeing through initiatives such as:
- The Workforce Wellbeing Network is a member driven network, created for emergency physicians and trainees engaged in workplace wellbeing initiatives to discuss, share and collaborate. The network aims to highlight other issues or recommendations for the consideration of CAPP via the Network’s parent committee (Quality and Patient Safety) as the source of expertise in workplace wellbeing.
- The Quality Standards and Resource Toolkit now acknowledges the importance of workforce wellbeing in the ability to provide care.
- Each year, ACEM hosts ACEM Wellness Week, led by the College for the first time in 2021.
- The ACEM Wellbeing Award.
- Mentor Connect, a mentoring program that gives members and trainees the opportunity to establish mentoring connections outside their workplace.
- A joint call-to-action with our peers across the globe to raise awareness of burnout syndrome in the emergency medicine workforce.
- Wellbeing Charter for Doctors, a collaborative effort by ACEM, the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists and The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
These initiatives are designed to support ACEM's ongoing advocacy to alleviate stressors within the systems and structures our members and trainees work within, including on access block, rural health and workforce, COVID-19, discrimination, and bullying and harassment; and in addition to a range of policies and position statements developed by the College in support of better work conditions for emergency physicians.