Implementing and Sustaining Change Efforts
Use these resources to implement and sustain change efforts.
Quality Improvement Curriculum
The ACP Advance Quality Improvement (QI) healthcare curriculum offers a practical, step-wise approach that guides you through each stage of the QI journey from establishing the “what” and “why” for change to implementing and sustaining change. This online curriculum, developed by physicians for physicians and their teams, is offered as a series of four modules.
General Team Care Toolkit
ACP has developed this toolkit to share best practices and real-life examples of successful team-based clinical care models that include internal medicine physicians working with nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other members of the clinical care team. This toolkit includes resources to help foster productive and purposeful internal medicine teams.
Well-being Champion Curriculum
This self-paced learning series empowers you to lead meaningful change as a Well-being Champion by equipping you with leadership skills, evidence-based strategies, and practical tools to foster sustainable communities of well-being and professional fulfillment-right from where you are in your life and career.
Mini But Mighty Skills for Well-being: Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciative Inquiry is an organizational development model that takes a positive approach to systems change. This webinar, developed by Kerri Palamara, MD, FACP, Director of the Center for Physician Well-being at Massachusetts General Hospital and Physician Coaching Services Lead for ACP, and presented by North Carolina Well-being Champion Marion McCrary, MD, FACP, guides you through using the AI approach in your practice and teaching others to do the same. This mini-but-mighty skill can have a big impact on well-being.
Four Key Questions Leaders Can Ask to Support Clinicians During the COVID-19 Pandemic Recovery Phase
This tool includes language and guidance for how to set the stage for honest and open conversations between organizations and their clinicians, and how to begin to strategize in response to what is shared in these conversations.
A Call to Action: Align Well-being and Antiracism Strategies
By Eileen Barrett, MD, MPH, MACP; N. Mariam Salas, MD; Charlene Dewey, MD, MEd, MACP; Jonathan Ripp, MD, MPH, ACP Member; and Susan Thompson Hingle, MD, MACP, ACP Internist
For too many clinicians, racism is a defining component of work culture. Health care organizations should adopt antiracist practices that result in sustained, meaningful change.
National Plan for Health Workforce Well-being 7 Priority Areas
The capacity and well-being of the U.S. health workforce has been under threat for years by an epidemic of burnout, and the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated this systems issue. Now more nurses, physicians, and state and local public health department employees than ever are considering leaving their professions.
Recognizing that the function of the U.S. health system is at stake, the NAM released the National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being in October 2022 to drive collective action to strengthen health workforce well-being and restore the health of the nation.
Ten Changes That Could Keep Clinicians in the Workforce
By Marcia Frellick, MD Edge
The 10-point, one-page checklist in the Annals of Internal Medicine, Getting Through Covid-19: Keeping Clinicians in the Workforce, includes providing “practical support in the areas that clinicians identify as causing emotional stress or moral injury,” such as managing anger and grief when patients have chosen not to be vaccinated or confronting misinformation.
“Those are the things that are making people's mental health worse” psychiatrist Jessi Gold, MD, MS, said in an interview. “I don't think I've seen that mentioned other places.”
Examples of ACP Well-being Champions’ Implemented Systems Change Contributions
Check out how ACP Well-being Champions are making a positive impact by implementing sustainable systems changes and transformation within their chapters and institutions.