1. Wellness Champions Retreat #5: Social Support
February 20, 2019

2. Wellness Champion Mission Statement
Mission:  Psychological, emotional, spiritual and physical well-being are critical for a competent, caring, and resilient health care professional. Saint Louis University School of Medicine will foster a culture of well-being and self-care through its Wellness Champion Program.
Vision: The Wellness Champion Program will facilitate wellness activities in Graduate Medical and Graduate Research Education through the personal and collaborative activities of the Wellness Champions and will support the development of wellness initiatives within programs at the School of Medicine.  

3. • The Resilient Physician: Effective Emotional Management for Doctors and Their Medical Organizations, Wayne M Sotile & Mary O. Sotile
• The Medical Marriage: Sustaining Healthy Relationships for Physicians and Their Families, Wayne M. Sotile & Mary O. Sotile
• Staying Human During Residency Training, 4th ed., Allan D. Peterkin, MD
• Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life's Greatest Challenges 1st edi, 2012, Steven M. Southwick
• The BASICS – Strategies for coping with stress and building resilience for physicians – free
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Dr. Michael Kaufmann, OMA Physician Health Program Founder and Emeritus PHP Medical Director

4. Agenda Opening Remarks Reflection with Father Murphy Video
Resilience factor #6&7: social support & role models
Challenges
Mindfulness Exercise

5. Reflection with Father Murphy
Handout provided

6. Physician Well-Being Video
doctors-at-risk-of-suicide

7. Resilience Factors Realistic optimism Facing fear
Moral Compass, Ethics, & Altruism
Spirituality/Religion
Social Support
Role models
Exercise
Cognitive & Emotional training
Cognitive & Emotional Flexibility
Find your purpose
the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity.
Resilience: The Science of Mastering Life’s Greatest Challenges Drs. Southwick and Charney

8. Chapter 6: Social Support
-“In order to thrive in this world, people need other people.”
-“Close relationships build strength and help to protect us during times of stress and danger”
-“Far from signifying weakness, interdependence with others can provide a foundation for resilience”

9. Chapter 6: Social Support
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you”
-Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends and Influence People
-Oxytocin is important in social communication.
-it improves our ability to recognize a familiar face, recognize an expression as positive or negative, and infer the mental state of another person
-Oxytocin reduces cortisol reducing anxiety in stressful situations
(Heinrichs et al 2009)

10. Chapter 6: Measuring Social Networks
1. Who could you count on if you had recently been fired or expelled from school?
2. Who would help you if a family member very close to you died?

11. Chapter 7: Role Models *Resilient people have role models
Who is yours?
Negative role models: what not to imitate
Good role models inspire, motivate, provide consistent and reliable support, and foster self-esteem. A person learns by focusing on small behaviors, practicing in various settings, and get feedback if possible.

12. Group Discussion
Challenge: What was one wellness activity you have done since retreat #2?
Open discussion

13. Mindfulness Exercise

14. Thank you!