The World Within: Building Resilience in Medicine with Human Wellbeing

On this show, we usually focus on structural resilience- but what about the resilience of our personal wellbeing?

This year, the University of Georgia opened our brand new School of Medicine, and some of the experts joining the School's Office of Personalized Health and Well-being joined us to talk about resilience in a different light: stronger, more strategic medical education starting with better care for human wellbeing.

To medical educators, resilience is about understanding what wellbeing means on an individual level, and taking simple, science-backed steps to build lasting, positive behavior in new generations of doctors.

This episode, forget physical infrastructure- we're talking about building resilience in your brain, the science of looking on the bright side, and of course, why doctors should take improv classes.

Featuring:
Catherine (Cathy) Ann Snapp - Director of Behavioral Health, Associate Professor of Medicine at UGA SOM and Director of the Office of Personalized Health and Well-being
Janette Hill - Professor at the UGA SOM and the Department of Workforce Education and Instructional Technology at UGA, and Assistant Director of OPHW
Amy Baldwin - Professor of Medical Education and Director of Humanism in Medicine at UGA SOM, Associate Director of OPHW and adjunct professor for the Medical College of Georgia

Links:
Considerations for Co-Creating a Culture of Well-being at your Medical Institution: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40670-025-02559-6
Emotional Resilience Training to Support Care Partners of People Living with Dementia: A Pilot Study: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/23743735261461931