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Personal and Professional Wellbeing for Australian Medical Women

Resources, links, tips and information. If you have suggestions on additional resources we could list, we would love to hear from you. You can contact us here.

INCLUDES: Personal Wellbeing Resources |  COVID Related Resources | Self Compassion |
General Resources | Wellbeing Articles

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Personal Wellbeing for Australian Medical Women

“To be our best selves, we must care for ourselves.”

ACT resources

NSW resources

NT resources

Qld resources

SA resources

TAS resources

VIC resources

WA resources

other RESOURCES

This list of resources is compiled in large part from resources shared by Dr Ira van der Steenstraten at the AFMW Open Forum on Doctor Wellbeing held on October 24.

COVID related

Face COVID

  • Focus on what you do have control over 
  • Acknowledge your thoughts and feelings 
  • Come back into your body
  • Engage in what you are doing 
  • Committee action 
  • Opening Up
  • Values 
  • Identify resources
  • Disinfect and distance

Self Compassion

General Resources

welbeing articles

EMPLOYER TIP SHEET Protecting Employee Mental Health Amid Climate Challenges
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Associate Professor Magdalena Simonis AM, AFMW Immediate Past President

Protecting employee mental health amid climate health emergencies | HAA

Employers have an important role to play in addressing the mental health impacts of climate change and improving the resilience and well-being of their workforce. This tip sheet was developed by the Health Action Alliance and reviewed by members of the National Commission on Climate and Workforce Health. Download the Employer Tip Sheet.

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Associate Professor Magdalena Simonis AM, AFMW Immediate Past President
Socks4Docs day event details
News
Dr Marjorie Cross, OAM

Socks4Docs Day is on 7 June 2024

On June 7 wear your crazy socks and reflect on the mental health issues that many women in medicine are experiencing around stress, burnout,  micro aggressions, depression and  anxiety.

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Dr Marjorie Cross, OAM
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