Colin West
@colinwestmdphd.bsky.social
Professor of Medicine, Medical Education, and Biostatistics at Mayo Clinic. Medical Director, Employee Well-Being. Medical education and evidence-based medicine. Dad jokes, NIN, and Oxford commas. Posts mine.
1/ Welcome to Edition 321 of West’s Well-Being Wednesday! Today I’ll bring forward some more information on employee well-being from @gallup.com www.gallup.com/workplace/21...
Employees Need High Wellbeing for High Performance
Create more than a wellness program, create a true culture of well-being. Develop a comprehensive program that improves employees' lives and business outcomes.
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7/ “Medical education aspires to develop physicians who dedicate their careers to alleviating human distress. It is a stark institutional contradiction when the very systems charged with this formation do not protect their learners from preventable distress born of unmet basic needs.”
6/ Potential solution reflect the complexity of the factors involved: academic.oup.com/view-large/5...
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2/ We previously reported on the prevalence of food insecurity among GME trainees and its association with burnout and social isolation jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Food Insecurity, Burnout, and Social Isolation Among Resident and Fellow Physicians
This cross-sectional study assesses the prevalence of and factors associated with food insecurity among graduate medical education trainees and investigates the associations between food insecurity an...
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1/ Welcome to Edition 320 of West’s Well-Being Wednesday! Today, necessary support for the basic needs of medical trainees addressed in an @acadmedjournal.bsky.social editorial with @larissathomas.bsky.social @mytiennguyen.bsky.social academic.oup.com/academicmedi...
Addressing financial, housing, and food insecurity to help medical trainees achieve their full potential
Training to be a physician is a deeply rewarding yet highly stressful experience. Nurturing learners through this challenging process is a critical objecti
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1/ Welcome to Edition 320 of West’s Well-Being Wednesday! Today, necessary support for the basic needs of medical trainees addressed in an @acadmedjournal.bsky.social editorial with @larissathomas.bsky.social @mytiennguyen.bsky.social academic.oup.com/academicmedi...
Addressing financial, housing, and food insecurity to help medical trainees achieve their full potential
Training to be a physician is a deeply rewarding yet highly stressful experience. Nurturing learners through this challenging process is a critical objecti
academic.oup.com
1/ Welcome to Edition 319 of West’s Well-Being Wednesday! Today, the July 2026 issue of Healthcare Well-Being Offerings – sign up to receive monthly update emails. www.healthcarewellbeing.org/july-2026
September2025 | Enhance Healthcare Well-Being Today — Healthcare Well-Being Offerings
Explore expert articles and initiatives on improving healthcare professional well-being, reducing burnout, and promoting satisfaction in medical environments.
healthcarewellbeing.org
1/ Welcome to Edition 319 of West’s Well-Being Wednesday! Today, the July 2026 issue of Healthcare Well-Being Offerings – sign up to receive monthly update emails. www.healthcarewellbeing.org/july-2026
September2025 | Enhance Healthcare Well-Being Today — Healthcare Well-Being Offerings
Explore expert articles and initiatives on improving healthcare professional well-being, reducing burnout, and promoting satisfaction in medical environments.
healthcarewellbeing.org
11/ By monitoring wellbeing, leaders can: • identify rising risk early • evaluate whether changes are working • focus resources where they matter most Measurement turns wellbeing from an aspiration into a manageable, measurable part of organizational performance.”
10/ … Gallup’s research shows that organizations make the most progress when they measure wellbeing consistently, track changes over time and adjust employee wellbeing initiatives based on what employees are experiencing. …
9/ As they write at the end of their summary, “Wellbeing improvement requires ongoing attention. …
8/ Measuring “consistently over time” allows leaders to “track wellbeing trends, assess progress and understand how workplace changes affect employees’ lives”
5/ 3. Gallup’s “model” of different dimensions of well-being aligns fairly well with models in medicine such as the Mayo Clinic strategic framework, but ours allows better mapping to our specific culture and employee voice www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S002...
Charting a New Path Forward in Addressing Employee Well-being in Health Care
Health care worker well-being is critical to delivering optimal care to our patients. With greater understanding of these issues, evidence-informed models of employee well-being have been developed to...
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4/ 2. The main drivers of employee well-being relate to how management and job design support the “MVPs of Well-Being” (my phrase but they call out meaning and purpose in their summary). This drives career well-being.
2/ Gallup is not my usual first source of expertise for medical profession well-being, but it’s interesting to see how aligned employee well-being principles have become across professions – in the next few posts I’ll outline the key points in their take
1/ Welcome to Edition 318 of West’s Well-Being Wednesday! Today I’ll go in a different direction than usual and share takeaways from the @gallup.com summary on employee well-being www.gallup.com/workplace/40...
Employee Wellbeing Strategy: A Practical Guide
Learn what employee wellbeing is, why it matters to organizational performance, and how to measure and improve it.
gallup.com
📢 New editorial: Addressing financial, housing, and food insecurity to help medical trainees achieve their full potential: https://bit.ly/4xe1Sbi. #MedEd #MedSky
1/ Welcome to Edition 318 of West’s Well-Being Wednesday! Today I’ll go in a different direction than usual and share takeaways from the @gallup.com summary on employee well-being www.gallup.com/workplace/40...
Employee Wellbeing Strategy: A Practical Guide
Learn what employee wellbeing is, why it matters to organizational performance, and how to measure and improve it.
gallup.com
6/ From July 30, a recap of older threads on academic surgeon mental health, medical student well-being versus their peer college graduates, and other topics x.com/ColinWestMDP...
Colin West (@ColinWestMDPhD) on X
1/ Welcome to Edition 264 of West’s #WellBeingWednesday! Today I’ll review threads and content from April 2024: academic surgeon mental health, medical student well-being relative to peer college grad...
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5/ From July 23, the Ending Clinician Burnout Global Summit x.com/ColinWestMDP...
Colin West (@ColinWestMDPhD) on X
1/ Welcome to Edition 263 of West’s #WellBeingWednesday! Today I’d like to bring an upcoming virtual summit with a GREAT line-up of speakers to your attention, so block your calendars for November 6 a...
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4/ From July 16, a call-back to the very first threda in this series from July 15, 2020! x.com/ColinWestMDP...
Colin West (@ColinWestMDPhD) on X
1/ Welcome to Edition 262 of West’s #WellBeingWednesday! 5 years ago, on July 15, 2020 the very first edition of this series debuted on Twitter/X (link below) #wellbeing #burnout #meded #medtwitter ht...
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3/ From July 9, a podcast with Dr. Cheryl Martin with a historical look at burnout and emerging solutions x.com/ColinWestMDP...
Colin West (@ColinWestMDPhD) on X
1/ Welcome to Edition 261 of West’s #WellBeingWednesday! Another day, another podcast – this time with Dr. Cheryl Martin and The Mind Full Medic Podcast #wellbeing #burnout #meded #medtwitter https://...
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2/ From July 2, a podcast on burnout and well-being with Dr. Christopher Camp and the Mayo Clinic Human Optimization Project x.com/ColinWestMDP...
Colin West (@ColinWestMDPhD) on X
1/ Welcome to Edition 260 of West’s #WellBeingWednesday! Today I’ll introduce a recent podcast I did with @ChrisCampMD @MayoHumanOpProj #wellbeing #burnout #meded #medtwitter https://t.co/JU324igXpk
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1/ Welcome to Edition 317 of West’s Well-Being Wednesday! Today I’ll review threads and content from July 2025 on principles to advance occupational well-being in health care, and much more.
1/ Welcome to Edition 317 of West’s Well-Being Wednesday! Today I’ll review threads and content from July 2025 on principles to advance occupational well-being in health care, and much more.
7/ It takes all of us, and I’m grateful for each and every partner on this journey. May we forever continue to learn from one another, lift each other up, and care for our patients by caring for the entire healthcare team.
5/ It has been incredibly gratifying to see attention to these issues grow in so many crucial directions – data, yes ... but also narrative, humanity, morality, and so many more aspects all represented, with the constant “North Star” being helping patients receive the care they deserve
1/ Welcome to Edition 316 of West’s Well-Being Wednesday! Today, a reflection on well-being in medicine prompted by Ridge Salter's recent and generous post about his experiences. www.linkedin.com/posts/ridgle...
I would like to thank my colleague and former Penn State College of Medicine classmate, Anders Apgar, for creating the opportunity to discuss the well-being of our colleagues in healthcare in this… | ...
I would like to thank my colleague and former Penn State College of Medicine classmate, Anders Apgar, for creating the opportunity to discuss the well-being of our colleagues in healthcare in this epi...
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1/ Welcome to Edition 316 of West’s Well-Being Wednesday! Today, a reflection on well-being in medicine prompted by Ridge Salter's recent and generous post about his experiences. www.linkedin.com/posts/ridgle...
I would like to thank my colleague and former Penn State College of Medicine classmate, Anders Apgar, for creating the opportunity to discuss the well-being of our colleagues in healthcare in this… | ...
I would like to thank my colleague and former Penn State College of Medicine classmate, Anders Apgar, for creating the opportunity to discuss the well-being of our colleagues in healthcare in this epi...
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9/ Why task load is higher among female physicians needs further study – proposed factors include more incremental and often unrecognized “invisible work”, different patient populations, and competing work-home obligations