Well-Being Promotion and Advocacy

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Addressing professional, personal, and patient well-being is paramount in providing and sustaining effective health care. The topic of well-being in medicine is multi-faceted, offering opportunities to examine key health influences at both an individual and organizational level. For physicians, this topic has implications for quality of life in the workplace, effectiveness of patient care, and utilization of personal well-being tools across the domains of emotional, physical, social, and spiritual health. This elective offers an overview of wellness topics in patient care and physician-wellness advocacy as springboards for students to identify relevant content areas of interest for deeper exploration.