Commitment
Learn more about how to enhance your coping skills using concrete strategies and evidenced-based tools
Reflecting on your commitment as a practitioner, why you were drawn to the profession, and the value and purpose of what you do can reconnect you with a sense of meaning and be an effective way of managing stress.
Coping After a Traumatic Event
Tips for understanding how you feel after a traumatic experience, including what to expect as time goes on and how to come to terms with what has happened.
Royal College of Psychiatrists
CMPA: Managing Difficult Patients
An article that features strategies on how to helping physicians deal with conflict and aggression in the workplace.
Canadian Medical Protective Association
Stress, Anxiety and Substance Use During COVID-19
This one-page handout for health-care providers includes concrete strategies to help you cope as well as a square breathing exercise.
Mental Health Commission of Canada
MindShift CBT App
This free app uses evidence-based methods to help you relieve anxiety, learn to relax and develop more effective ways of thinking.
Anxiety Canada
Three Steps to Coping with Anything
A seven-minute video that addresses the stress health-care workers may experience during COVID-19.
Drs. Robert Maunder and Jon Hunter
Balancing Career with Family and Personal Life
Dr. Kevin Reavis talks about his personal experience balancing career and family life.
SAGES
A Physician’s Guide to Coping with Death and Dying
This book discusses ways physicians can reduce their own stress levels and avoid the risk of burnout.
Alan Cooper, Jan Swanson
Resilience in the Era of Sustainable Physicians
An e-learning activity designed to teach residents and trainees strategies to enhance personal resilience and wellness as well as mitigate the risk of burnout.
McMaster University