Stop the Stigma EM – Zoom Gatherings

Best Practices on Supportive Leadership in Mental Health Care in EM

October 19, 2022 at 2:00 PM CT

Several barriers exist in accessing mental health care for physicians. Individual challenges include shame, compromised help-seeking behaviors, and others. The systemic barriers include difficulty getting appointments and repercussions of seeking mental health support on credentialing and licensure. All the same, physicians continue to experience trauma: moral injury, vicarious trauma, and adverse patient outcomes. In this session, leaders in EM and mental health experts will discuss better practices in supporting our colleagues to get mental health care.

This event is sponsored by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, Association of Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine, American Board of Emergency Medicine, American Association for Emergency Psychiatry, and Coalition on Psychiatric Emergencies

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Light Up The Darkness: Physicians Sharing Stories about Mental Health

October 30, 2022 at 4:00 PM CT

As we conclude the #StopTheStigmaEM month campaign, we hope to “light up the darkness” through an hour of gathering together and sharing our shared everyday experiences, celebrating our triumphs, acknowledging our lived trauma, and highlighting how #YouAreNotAlone and that #DoctorsAreHumansToo. This facilitated conversation will tackle physician experiences with mental health support, navigating medical harm and adverse patient outcomes, moral distress, and other traumatic experiences in EM. Please join us.

This event is sponsored by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, American Academy of Emergency Medicine, and American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians

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Shadows and Light: A physician's lens on COVID

November 1, 2022 at 6:00 PM CT

Through a chronological visual story of the people who have experienced the pandemic first-hand, Dr. Heather Patterson, an adult and pediatric emergency physician and photographer from Calgary, Alberta, Canada, shares how she found hope and a renewed sense of purpose in the resilience of the human spirit and the inspiring fortitude of Canada’s pandemic heroes. Intimate images of health care workers, support staff, patients, and families, shed light on the compassion, teamwork, and even joy that can be found amidst tragedy. The images and stories highlight love and loss, kindness and grace, and the importance of authenticity during an epidemic of burnout, delivering a message that is relevant and critically important during our current health care crisis.
About Dr. Patterson

Heather Patterson is an adult and pediatric emergency physician and photographer from Calgary, Alberta, Canada. When the pandemic struck, Dr. Patterson decided to put her 20 years of photography experience to use and began photographing the intimate moments at Calgary hospitals that went on to become Shadows and Light, her recent book publication. Photographs from the project have been featured in Macleans, where they were a finalist for a National Magazine Award, and the Calgary Herald and on CBC, CityNews, Global News, and CTV. Patterson has received the Award for Medical Journalism from the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians and her work has been featured in medical journals and presented at conference and grand rounds across Canada.

This event is sponsored by the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, American Academy of Emergency Medicine, and American College of Osteopathic Emergency Physicians

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