- Overwhelming stress can trigger a range of physical responses
- Recharge your body to cope with everyday pressures
Promoting doctors’ well-being
Ensuring quality patient care
Take actions ASAP to manage stress and to avoid burnout
Academy’s Commitment
Quality patient care and doctors’ well-being go hand in hand.1 As healthcare practitioners, our duty is to look after the health of patients and the community,2 and we can do this well only if we are willing and able to look after ourselves and each other.
Every one of our colleagues should also enjoy the opportunities for personal development and for meeting demands in other areas of life, and we can help each other to achieve that.
The Hong Kong Academy of Medicine (Academy), assuming a leading role in the medical and dental profession, has promulgated a Well-being Charter committed to cultivating and promoting well-being of Academy Fellows and specialist trainees of Academy Colleges. We pledge to acknowledge the importance of well-being, to take actions, and to advocate policy changes for the improvement of our Fellows’ and trainees’ wellness. Task Force on Well-being, chaired by the Academy’s Honorary Secretary, has been set up to devise plans and initiatives. Click here for the membership.
U.K. Department of Health defines well-being as “feeling good and functioning well and comprises an individual’s experience of their life; and a comparison of life circumstances with social norms and values.”1
World Health Organization (WHO) defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”2
What's new
- Policy Statement on Supporting Fellows and Specialist Trainees with Disability or Special Educational Needs (SEN)
- Over 40 Peer Supporters available to offer support
- Self-assessment: Take CBI questionnaire to know more about levels of burnout
Our incremental approach
Manage stress, avoid burnout and stay well
Awareness
Helping you understand and recognise the causes, signs, and symptoms of burnout, stress, and other mental well-being issues
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Stress
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Burnout
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Stress
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Burnout
Self-assessment tools - Burnout, Anxiety and Depression
Take the following online tests for mental health self- assessment
Self-care
Providing practical advice for enhancing well-being and managing stress
- Maintain curiosity, value lifelong learning and respond positively to intellectual challenges
- Expand knowledge and skills
- Be mindful of your financial decision making
- Participate in work that provides personal satisfaction and life enrichment that is consistent with your values, goals, and lifestyle
- Maintain healthy relationships, enjoy being with others, take care of others and let others take care of you
- Connect with Fellows through participation in activities organsied by the Academy’s Social Subcommittee. Click here for details.
- Identify, understand and respect your feelings, values and attitudes that may lead to negative emotions
- Lead a lifestyle that values the relationship between the individual, the community, and the environment
- Well-being is affected by the environments we live in and we as individuals also have a significant impact on these environments
- Connect with nature and plants by joining the Friends of Academy’s Gardening Corner Programme that promotes healthy lifestyle and connection with Fellows interested in organic gardening
- Find purpose, value, and meaning in your life, and participate in activities that are consistent with your beliefs and values
Audios for mindfulness practice
Ask for help
Facilitating a peer support network and providing information on getting professional help
Peer support
Professional help
Promotion of well-being
Cultivating a culture of care and support, making recommendations for well-being improvement at the organisational level and organising well-being programmes
