HackEM

Wellness

We know that residency inherently creates risk for burnout in each learner, and have incorporated robust initiatives to help our residents. It is important to us to provide residents with the necessary tools to succeed in residency and maintain longevity in the careers that they have invested in so heavily.

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Wellness Curriculum: This longitudinal curriculum is built into our conference didactic instruction. Lectures cover various topics including crisis management, self care topics, sharing bad news, disclosing mistakes and financial well-being.

Team Bonding Days are built into the academic year.  Residents and faculty gather and spend the day together.  Past activities have included BBQs at the park, ski trips, and spa day trips.

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Hackensack Families: What is better than a little family competition? Residents and faculty form ‘Hackensack families’ as soon as they join our team. Families engage in social activities and some friendly competition with other Hackensack families

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Network-wide Resources: Hackensack Meridian Health offers various resources, including a free well-being index survey to consistently measure a trainee’s level of stress and identify early warning signs of burnout and fatigue. In addition to the well-being index survey, Hackensack Meridian provides employees with 5 wellness days annual in addition to standard vacation benefits, free behavioral health sessions with therapists to address mental health needs, assistance with finding child care and many more resources.