Wellness, Engagement & Professionalism
Updated 7/17/2020
- VCU Wellness Resources – RAMStrong
- VCU Health Wellness Resources
- Meditation Resources:
- PDF of resources with some links
- Recorded Faculty Development session on Meditation (coming soon!)
- LinkedIn Learning Course on Mindfulness Meditation for Work
- LinkedIn Learning Course on Meditation to Change your Brain
- Note: LinkedIn Learning is offered to both VCU and VCUHealth employees; search “meditation” if the links above do not work.
- NIH Webinar Recordings – register to view the recordings
- Supporting Yourself and Your Trainees During the Coronavirus Pandemic via NIH
- Strategies and Tools for Dealing with Stress During the Coronavirus Pandemic by Laurie Chaikind McNulty, LCSW-C
- Managing the Stress and Anxiety around COVID-19 by Kelly Donahue, PhD
- Becoming A Resilient Scientist: Setting Reasonable Expectations And Healthy Boundaries For Ourselves And With Our Supervisors by Sharon Milgram, PhD, Director, NIH Office of Intramural Training & Education
- Stress Management And Self-care For Scientists: During Covid-19 And Beyond
Wellness in Action Grant Opportunity
Burnout is a national health crisis for our workforce and for our patients. There are multiple drivers influencing wellness and engagement including:
- Workload and job demands
- Efficiency and resources
- Meaning in work
- Culture and values
- Control and flexibility
- Social support and community at work
- Work-life integration
This funding opportunity is for VCU SOM faculty or a research team lead by a VCU SOM faculty member. The grant is to support research for novel ideas to influence these drivers or improve wellness and engagement in the work environment. Budgets up to $1000 will be considered. Grant awards will need to be spent in accordance with university policy. Please include the description of the intervention, how you will measure success/improvement and how this may be translatable on a larger scale. You may be asked to present a progress report or summary at the next Wellness in Action meeting in September 2020. The Wellness in Action task force will serve as the advisory committee for the grant.
For questions, please contact:
Aimee Grover, MD
Director of Professionalism, Wellness and Engagement
VCU School of Medicine, Office of Faculty Affairs
804-628-3211 amelia.grover@vcuhealth.org