Wellness is a critical part of preventing physician burnout and maintaining quality patient care. This course, featuring Catherine Florio Pipas, MD, MPH and Mark Greenawald, MD, will provide you with steps you need to take to develop and maintain your personal wellness.

The Wellness course is an online course containing videos, readings, and activities. The course will take about an hour to complete.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, you'll be able to:

• Understand the importance of creating a culture of wellness at your institution or in your clinic
• Identify symptoms of burnout
• Employ a variety of strategies to promote wellness for yourself and for their teams

Video Mentors

Catherine Florio Pipas, MD, MPH, is Professor, Community & Family Medicine, The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and Dept of Medical Education, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth where she directs the Leadership Curriculum and the Social and Behavioral Determinants of Health course. She is author of A Doctor’s Dozen; 12 Strategies for Personal Health and A Culture of Wellness. Dr. Pipas is a past member of the STFM Board of Directors and the recipient of the 2019 STFM Humanism in Medicine Award. She also serves as the Chief Wellness Officer for Case Network – CoreWellness and consults and collaborates nationally with organizations and individuals to design, implement and sustain wellness initiatives.

Mark H. Greenawald, MD, serves as Medical Director for the Carilion Clinic Leadership Institute and as Chair for the Carilion Clinic/VTCSOM Faculty Vitality and Professional Well-being Committee. He has served as the Conference Chair for the AAFP Family Physician Health and Wellbeing Conference since its inception in 2018 and as faculty for the AAFP Chief Resident Leadership Development Program for the past 20 years, including serving as Director for the past 5 years. Certified as a Leadership and Executive Coach, he is also on the faculty of the Healthcare Coaching Institute. A former president of the Virginia Academy of Family Physicians, he was selected as the 20162017 Virginia Family Physician of the Year.