From the Trenches
Call for Collaboration: ACP Interchapter Rituals and Traditions Series 2025–2026
The ACP Well-being Champion community is cordially invited to join the next session of the Rituals and Traditions Series on January 10, 2026. This innovative series, created by WBC alumnus Dr. Mukta Panda and Tennessee Governor Dr. Daniel Ely, invites participants to explore how rituals—through shared meals, storytelling, and cultural practices—serve as pathways to understanding others' lived experiences and worldviews. By embracing openness and respect, we cultivate cultural humility, a cornerstone of inclusive and supportive communities.
Each session provides an opportunity to share and learn from personal traditions that reflect the diverse values, memories, and customs within our community. Guided by a five-part framework centered around TRUST, our journey will move through these themes:
Traditions
Rituals
Understanding
Shared Experiences
Togetherness
Each step invites us to reflect on where we've come from and to imagine what we can build together. Join us as we explore how community is co-created—not just through what we do, but through how we show up for one another. For more information, contact tennacp@gmail.com.
“Uncertainty in Medicine: Denial and Acceptance”
In this episode of The Nocturnists podcast, confront one of the most agonizing forms of uncertainty: the kind created by the healthcare system, as a family fights to save a loved one denied the care he needs to survive.
“Aligning the Trauma-Informed Approach with Accessibility, Belonging, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (ABDEIJ)”
Listeners can expect to gain a deeper understanding of the intersections between TIC and ABDEIJ and insights into assessing and evaluating the presence and impact of these principles within organizations, communities, and institutions. Our guest, Dr. Tonya Myles-Day, Clinical Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo School of Social Work, shares experiences that led her to this important work and explains why thinking beyond diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) is crucial.
Sign Up for Healthcare Well-Being Offerings
Healthcare Well-Being Offerings (HWO) was created to provide a platform designed to routinely distribute and make easily accessible the popular and scientific literature on healthcare worker well-being for those interested in the field. It is designed to be a one-stop-shop resource for all healthcare well-being–related topics across disciplines (for example, medicine, nursing, allied health, and healthcare administration) with the aim of helping all stakeholders stay current with the literature, trends, and policy.
ACP Member Shout-Out
Congrats to our WBC Lead Faculty Kerri L. Palamara, MD, MACP, of Boston, Massachusetts, who just received the ACP Award for Outstanding Contributions to Improving Well-being and Professional Fulfillment in Internal Medicine! We are so grateful for all of Dr. Palamara's contributions to the well-being and coaching space! Read about her approach to the design and delivery of ACP's Well-being Champion (WBC) program and the work of the WBCs in this article from the Journal of Wellness entitled “Feasibility of a ‘Network of Champions' in implementing a program to address physician well-being.”
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