Getting It Off the Ground: Key Factors Associated With Implementation of Wellness Programs.

Background And Objectives: Many residency programs are developing resident wellness curricula to improve resident well-being and to meet Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education guidelines. However, there is limited guidance on preferred curricular components and implementation. We sought to identify how specific driving factors (eg, having an identified wellness champion with a budget and protected time to develop wellness programs) impact implementation of essential elements of a resident wellness curriculum.

Don Bloch Award acceptance speech: 2017.

Provides Dr. Mary Talen's acceptance speech for the 2017 CFHA Don Bloch Award. (PsycINFO Database Record

A randomized controlled trial of two interventions to improve medication reconciliation.

Objective: Medication errors can be caused by lack of agreement between what physicians believe patients are taking and what patients actually take. There has been little systematic research to find the best way to reconcile medication lists in primary care. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of 2 interventions on agreement between electronic medical record medication lists and what patients report actually taking.