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September 19, 2025
ACP Well-being Champions: Promoting Well-being Through Awareness, Advocacy, and Action
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.”
—Carl G. Jung, MD, Memories, Dreams, Reflections
How can we bring awareness to what we don't know? Perhaps by asking questions or having difficult conversations. Yet at times it can be hard to be honest with ourselves or with others. National Physician Suicide Awareness Day (#NPSADay) was created to help break down the culture of silence around physician mental health and suicide. As an official NPSA Day–supporting organization, ACP encourages physicians, colleagues, friends, and family to foster a culture that addresses burnout, supports fulfillment, and normalizes mental health treatment for physicians. ACP offers resources to address the root causes of physician well-being, including the Physician Well-being and Professional Fulfillment Initiative, the Advocacy Toolkit: Modernizing License and Credentialing Applications to Not Stigmatize Mental Health, and the I.M. Emotional Support Hub.
Based on feedback from members, ACP has added a new page on physician suicide awareness and prevention resources. ACP recognizes physician suicide as a complex problem requiring system change and has compiled a list of resources on various types of programs and research in this area.
Speaking of difficult conversations, ACP continues to support its members by intensifying efforts to protect patients through vaccination advocacy. This summer, ACP joined with other medical professional societies to sue HHS & Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for unlawful, unilateral vaccine changes; sent a letter to leaders of congressional committees urging them to support vaccine science; and issued a joint statement expressing alarm by the decision to halt most federal investment https://www.acponline.org/node/66615033in mRNA vaccine research. ACP will continue to advocate for its members while it works to preserve science, evidence, and scholarly discussion.
Check out the links below for resources you can use for yourself and others:
- Explore the Professional Fulfillment Zone, where you will find the latest updates from ACP's Professional Development and Fulfillment Team on abstract winners, WBC program updates, peer coach training, and the Social Share Zone.
- Read about Suicide Prevention Month and read some new research on health care worker burnout.
- Learn about trust, burnout, and peer support in the workplace.
- Review Patients Before Paperwork and advocacy updates that affect physician well-being and professional fulfillment.
- Explore WBC coaching resources, including coaching sign-ups, the WBC contact list, a library of well-being interventions, and the WBC journey map. Find out how chapters can partner with WBCs (WBC Exclusive; must be signed in to ACP online).
- Utilize just-in-time well-being skills for yourself and to teach others and explore tools to create a well-being program tailored to any organization's needs and budget.
- Visit the I.M. Emotional Support Hub and Video Series to learn more about individual and organizational strategies and resources to protect clinicians' emotional health and well-being.
We look forward to hearing from you! Reach out to us via e-mail anytime with your thoughts and suggestions for newsletter topics and features.
Sincerely,
Your ACP Well-being Team
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