St. Luke’s Residency Director Joins National Wellness Task Force - Saucon Source

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Nguyet-Cam Vu Lam, M.D, FAAFP, Program Director, Bethlehem Family Medicine Residency astatine St. Luke’s University Health Network was precocious selected to service connected the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors’ (AFMRD) caller Program Director (PD) Wellness Task Force.

The task unit was formed due to the fact that AFMRD members and their colleagues person experienced important accent related to administering their residency programs, ensuring continued attraction transportation to the communities they serve, recruiting, on-boarding and grooming residents since the COVID-19 pandemic began successful 2020. Many residency programs proceed to conflict with diligent volumes, virtual interviewing, assessing nonmigratory readiness and workforce disruptions and shortages.

The Program Director Wellness Task Force is charged with exploring options for providing wellness enactment to AFMRD members arsenic good arsenic their squad members and recommending wellness initiatives to the AFMRD’s Board of Directors.

The six programme directors who are members of the radical planned to clasp their archetypal gathering virtually successful aboriginal October.

Dr. Lam said she’s excited to service connected the task unit and lend to its important work.

She has been passionate astir doc well-being since 2014, erstwhile she was asked to pb a residency module improvement league astatine St. Luke’s astir doc burnout. In that role, Dr. Lam developed initiatives to beforehand doc well-being and combat burnout, which she learned from surveys was arsenic precocious astatine St. Luke’s arsenic it is nationally.

The radical devised ways to enactment doc well-being and shared them with others successful the network.

“We created doc wellbeing program and residency argumentation connected wellbeing earlier it became a request of residency programs,” she said.

Having been Program Director for 4 years, Dr. Lam said she knows first-hand however challenging the relation tin be.

She is blessed to beryllium a portion of the AFMRD task unit “to enactment programme directors successful their well-being truthful that they tin proceed the precocious calling of grooming aboriginal household physicians.”

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