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In response to the physician wellbeing crisis, in 2017 the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) launched an “Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-being and Resilience.” In this chapter, we discuss the development of the collaborative along with its three main goals: to raise visibility of clinician stress, burnout, depression, and suicide; improve baseline understanding of challenges to clinician well-being; and advance evidence-based, multidisciplinary solutions to improve patient care by caring for the caregiver. We introduce the NAM’s conceptual model for understanding clinician wellbeing, including both individual and external factors as well as the clinician-patient relationship. Finally, we discuss the creation of one program designed to support clinician wellbeing and its outcomes.

The study of physician wellbeing and how best to assess it is still very much a work in progress. In this chapter, we describe several innovative approaches to the promotion of physician wellness which have been implemented at various institutions. Specifically, we identify both organizational and individual interventions and discuss their outcomes and limitations.