Physician Health and Wellness

The app helps you to better understand your own well-being, identify areas where you might need support, and access resources tailored to your needs. By establishing a baseline and tracking your progress, you can prioritize self-care and maintain long-term resilience in your professional and personal life. 

The app also gives you the unique opportunity to see how you’re doing compared to other physicians. This can help you: 

• Gain perspective and validate your experience: Seeing your results in the context of your profession can be a reminder that you are not alone with experiences such as burnout or stress, and that these experiences are not personal failures. 
• Identify strengths and opportunities: Seeing your results in the context of others can help you interpret your data. Understanding how others are doing highlights where you are resilient and thriving and where you may need to take steps to prioritize your well-being. 
• Confirming when you need more help: If your scores differ significantly from the average, it could signal the need to explore additional resources or strategies tailored to your unique circumstances. 

Yes. All data entered into the Well-Being Index is secure and confidential. Individual responses are de-identifiable, and no personal or identifiable information is shared without your consent. Your individual results remain private and are not accessible to anyone but you. 

Your data will be aggregated and analyzed to provide group-level insights for the South Island and Victoria Divisions in order for us to better understand our members’ needs and ensure our wellness initiatives are tailored to those needs. The initial campaign will allow the Divisions to gather baseline information that cna serve as a benchmark for measuring future improvements. 

• A quick, anonymous self-assessment
• Trends to track your well-being over time
• Access to local and national wellness resources tailored to your needs
• Benchmarking compared to a large, anonymized physician sample 

The Well-Being index uses a short, validated questionnaire that evaluates factors such as distress, fatigue, and quality of life. 

Yes. The app allows you to review your past assessments and monitor your well-being trends over time. 

Yes, the app is free for participating physicians. Please ensure you use the invitation code: DIVISIONSWBI upon registering. 

Yes, the app it optimized for both mobile and website use. 

If you have an existing WBI account, please enter the same email address as your current account. The WBI will recognize your email and ask if you’d like to associate with the South Island and Victoria DoFP account. 

The assessment takes less than 3 minutes to complete.

You can answer the questions as often as you like for your own self-reflection. Regular participation (e.g., monthly) is recommended for meaningful tracking. 

Aggregated data from the Index will help identify trends and guide the development of programs and initiatives that address the specific needs of physicians. Your input will help us understand what our community needs the most.

Please contact the Divisions Well-Being Index Administrators at well@sidfp.com. 

Yes! We want to hear from you. There are optional feedback questions that will pop up after you complete the Index, which you can answer through the app. Or, you can email us at well@sidfp.com anytime. 

Peer support might be helpful for physicians who experience work or life stressors and require emotional, non-judgemental support. Examples of these scenarios might be: 

• Adverse clinical event (including but not limited to an adverse patient outcome)
• Patient or colleague complaint
• Interpersonal/relational conflict with a patient or colleague 
• Acute life stressors which impacts your career (e.g., birth of a new child or bereavement)
• Struggles with burnout/moral injury
• A change that has happened at work that impacts you emotionally 

• Create a safe space for peers to share experiences and seek emotional support
• Listen non-judgementally, validate, and empathize with the experience of peers
• Empower peers to recognize existing strengths and resources, and build on coping strategies that work for them
• Connect peers with community resources if they need support beyond the scope of peer support
• Promote a broader sense of community and a positive, supportive workplace culture 

Confidentiality is integral to the success of a peer support interaction. Peer supporters sign a confidentiality agreement following their training. These conversations are discoverable from a legal perspective, so peer supporters do not take written notes during interactions and do not focus on the details of the situation. Rather, they focus on the emotional impact of the situation and coping strategies. You connecting with a peer supporter is a private decision. Your request for support will not be reported to the College, Island Health, or your colleagues. There are rare cases where confidentiality must be broken, such as when a physician is at risk of harming themselves or others, or if a peer supporter has a direct reason to believe that someone is at risk for unsafe behaviour. These are the same reasons a peer supporter may have to break confidentiality in their everyday clinical practice as a physician.