Online posters
Posters were presented at the conference and online
Doctors' Health Matters - Finding The Balance
Monday 17 - Wednesday 19 November 2008
BMA House, London
Oral presentations
Presentations were given in a number of themed groups:
Doctors as patients
Paper 38: Emergency physicians cumulate more stress factors than other physicians - Results from French SESMAT study
Paper 106: Psychiatrists as inpatients: are they different from the rest of physicians?
Paper 124: Increase in self-reported prevalence of chronic conditions but only minor changes in seeking care for the problems among Finnish doctors from 1997 to 2006
Doctors' own health behaviour
Paper 67: Do doctors look after their own health as well as their patients? Results from the quality indicators program in our district
Paper 72: 'The Quebec Physicians' Health Program': How data research can help to understand the concept of physicians' distress
Doctors' personality traits
Paper 188: Physician Personality Traits: Sound familiar?
Doctors taking sick leave
Paper 115: Sickness absence in doctors - a comparison of recorded sickness absence with self-reported sickness absence in medical staff in a UK NHS hospital
Job satisfaction
Paper 12: Physicians' job satisfaction and working conditions in Japan
Life cycle
Paper 89: Ill health in Foundation Trainees
Paper 155: Using empathy 'safely': the evolution in the use of empathy over a medical career
Paper 160: Personal and professional development groups for doctors in their first year (FY1s) at Newham University Hospital NHS Trust
Medical students
Paper 93: Values in healthcare - a spiritual approach.
Mental health and emotional wellbeing
Paper 48: What can we learn from the experiences of consultants around time of a child's death
Paper 86: Relapse rates in physicians monitored for bipolar disorder and recurrent unipolar depression
Paper 147: Psychiatric treatment for doctors: a questionnaire survey
Paper 194: Depression among doctors applying for the new run-through training posts of 'Modernising Medical Careers'
Physician health programmes
Paper 3: Physician health programs in the United States: a national multi-center study
Paper 16: An occupational psychiatric and psychotherapy service for doctors: 5 years' experience
Paper 152: 10 years of the PAIMM: an appraisal of some results
Psychological distress/suicide
Paper 154: Empathy and doctor health: a study of the relationship between empathy, burnout and psychological distress in doctors
Paper 156: Depression, burnout and suicideal ideation among Swedish and Italian physicians (the HOUPE study)
Substance misuse
Paper 20: Treating the addicted physician - Twenty years of experience
Paper 33: Addiction to opiates among impaired physicians treated in a Spanish Physicians Program: a descriptive study
Paper 74: Gender differences and predictors of reactivation at a Physician Healht Program, Implications for Outreach and Intervention
Paper 136: Tobacco use by physicians in a Physician Health Program, implications for treatment and monitoring
Paper 177: Blueprint Project, Colorado Site: A study of physicians with substance use disorders followed by the Colorado Physician Health Program
Work/life balance and satisfaction
Paper 37: Work week duration, work-family balance adn difficulties encountered by female physicians and pharmacists - Results from the French SESMAT study
Paper 66: A comparison of well being for internal medicine physicians across two different payment schemes
Paper 111: How do Finnish doctors see the work-family balance?
Paper 192: A fatigue management health promotion initiative. Do it for your patients. Do it for yourself.
Work-related health risks
Paper 22: Back pain in Obstetricians and Gynaecologists: an up to date review