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Family Medicine Residency Greenville - Well-being

Our Wellness Definition

Physical, mental and emotional well-being is important enough for our residency that residents and faculty worked together to develop our unique definition of physician well-being. We believe that physician well-being is critical to being a competent, empathic, and professional physician. It’s a shared responsibility that spans the socioecological levels (e.g., individual, team, residency, community, institution, society), and is an ever-evolving and ongoing process involving knowledge, skills, habits and attitude.

We believe that a well physician finds their work experience to be rewarding and identifies and maintains their personal wellness goals. A well physician feels safe, healthy, and has autonomy, belonging, and competency intact. Well physicians work to achieve concordance and harmony between work, home, personal development, spiritual life, family, love, and community engagement. 

In order to promote physician well-being, we all work together to establish an inclusive, respectful, supportive, equitable, and compassionate residency community. Our community embraces a culture of change and continuous improvement while also striving for acceptance. We work together to cultivate educational experiences to help physicians improve personal vitality and encourage each individual's wellness goals. We allow adequate time away from work for physicians to maintain personal identity and mental health. 

The purpose of the definition is to describe what wellness means to us and to define responsibilities of individuals and the group in working toward a healthy community. This definition is also the basis for twice-yearly residency well-being assessments and one-on-one check-ins with residents’ advisors.

Lifestyle

The Prisma Health Family Medicine Residency in Greenville focuses on lifestyle medicine, and this extends to our approach to resident well-being as well. We believe that healthy lifestyle behaviors are beneficial, not only to our patients, but to ourselves. We try to embody these principles by applying them not just to our patient care, but to residency life. For example:

  • All PGY-1s meet with the Employee Assistance Program, a free benefit provided by Prisma Health. Through this visit, they are introduced to the services available with the initial “getting started” barriers removed. Residents are guaranteed protected time away from work to continue EAP visits as needed.
  • Residents enjoy “wellness walks” around the outdoor walking track at the adjacent Prisma Health Life Center during weekly didactics.
  • We offer opportunities for personal creative reflection on challenging aspects of medicine in regular Narrative Medicine sessions.
  • We hold “Wellness Wednesday” in didactics. We travel off-site to participate in a wellness activity and socialize together.
  • During PGY-1 Core Skills, teaching that focuses on developing wellness skills helps interns build their personal well-being toolboxes.