A hospital-wide group approach to promote open dialogues of workplace issues and staff wellbeing with Schwartz Rounds.

Objectives: This study aims to explore the feasibility and impact of Schwartz Rounds® led by psychiatrists/mental health professionals in an urban Australian public hospital setting and to develop strategies for optimising participants' experiences.

Methods: Being a mixed-methods study collecting qualitative and quantitative data through post-Rounds evaluation surveys, this study thematically analysed responses from 105 participants attending four consecutive monthly Rounds between February and May 2023 to assess the perceived benefits and challenges of Schwartz Rounds.

Results: Respondents highly valued the Rounds and felt cared for by the healthcare organisation.

Microbiome Assembly in Fermented Foods.

For thousands of years, humans have enjoyed the novel flavors, increased shelf-life, and nutritional benefits that microbes provide in fermented foods and beverages. Recent sequencing surveys of ferments have mapped patterns of microbial diversity across space, time, and production practices. But a mechanistic understanding of how fermented food microbiomes assemble has only recently begun to emerge.

Operationalising the Family-Friendly Medical Workplace and the Development of FAM-MED, a Family-Friendly Self-Audit Tool for Medical Systems: A Delphi Consensus.

Globally, the call for Family-Friendly (FF) workplaces is loud and clear. However, this call is inaudible in medical workplaces, despite both well-established benefits of FF workplaces across businesses and well-known effects of work-family conflict on the well-being and practice of doctors. We aimed to use the Delphi consensus methodology to: (i) operationalise the Family-Friendly medical workplace and (ii) develop a Family-Friendly Self-Audit tool for medical workplaces.

Beyond burnout II: A case series of doctors seen in a new publicly funded doctors' mental health service.

Objective: Doctors' mental health has received increased focus recently and has been met with a variety of systemic responses. A Professional Support Unit (PSU) in a public hospital was established to address service gaps. This paper aims to describe the care of doctors referred to this service.