Flourishing Not Just Surviving | SingHealth Duke-NUS

Date: Friday, 27 September 2024 | Time: 2.45pm - 4.15pm | Venue: Duke-NUS Amphitheatre
Track Type: Main Conference Symposium
Speakers: Dr Gerald Sng Gui Ren, Assoc Prof Phua Ghee Chee, Dr Joshua Tung Yi Min, Dr Chua Jia Long, Dr Ivan Low Jinrong

Healthcare worker wellbeing is a growing area of concern over the last few years, with low levels of wellbeing, high levels of burnout, attrition and distress being seen across all the health professions. We focus here on junior doctor wellbeing as a proxy for healthcare worker wellbeing at large.

This symposium is conducted by a diverse group of stakeholders representing different aspects of addressing the issue of junior doctor wellbeing. The first half of the symposium will introduce the concept of wellbeing, contextualise it to the local Singapore environment, and explore its many determinants. This will focus on qualitative research that reports the lived experiences of junior doctors in Singapore as a proxy for the wider healthcare workforce. The second half of the symposium will share the multi-pronged efforts that have been ongoing to address this issue. You will have a chance to hear from various speakers with talks encompassing a mix of data, stories, and actionable insights for attendees.

Learning Outcome(s):

By the end of the symposium, participants will be able to:

Gain an understanding of the complex construct of wellness in junior doctors and healthcare workers.
Identify some key systemic contributors to poor wellbeing and extrapolate that to their practice settings.
Gain an understanding on the perspectives and challenges of learners and educators in fostering wellbeing, in particular with regards to educating for change.
Learn from best practices in designing interventions to address wellbeing at a systematic level, and evaluate impact of said interventions.

Target Audience:

All individuals with an interest in fostering workplace health and wellbeing. The symposium ostensibly focusses on junior doctors as this is the group with the most systematic published data at present. However, the learning outcomes from this symposium are expected to be applicable to most groups of healthcare workers.

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Flourishing, Not Just Surviving: Enhancing Junior Doctor Wellbeing