AMA Advocacy Insights webinar series: Legislative and regulatory advocacy to support physician wellness 2023 | American Medical Association | 22 August 2023 | Online

Physician burnout can lead to devastating consequences for individual physicians, patients, the physician workforce and the U.S. health care system as a whole. Dealing with burnout requires system-level solutions, as well as initiatives and programs that provide protections to help encourage physicians and medical students to seek help when needed and improve their practice environment.

Support for enhancing physician wellness is growing. For example, a number of state medical associations have both successfully enacted laws that provide confidentiality protections for physicians seeking help for burnout, and has worked closely with state medical associations to urge state medical boards to eliminate or revise stigmatizing mental health related questions on licensing applications to match policy and lower barriers to physicians from seeking help.

Join the chair of the Board of Trustees Willie Underwood III, MD, MSc, MPH, in conversation with expert panelists who are working with the advocating for such changes—and implementing them.

2023 Speakers

Mark Staz
Management Consultant, Regulatory Policy, Federation of State Medical Boards

Barb Smith
Chief Executive Officer, South Dakota State Medical Association

Abraham Segres
Vice President, Quality and Patient Safety, Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association

Joel Bundy
Vice President, Chief Quality and Safety Officer, Sentara Healthcare

MODERATOR:

Willie Underwood III
MSc, MPH, Chair, AMA Board of Trustees