This February, the department is launching five well-being working groups that are focused on designing and implementing solutions to the most pressing well-being challenges faced by our faculty.
Five working groups will spend a year tackling specific well-being concerns:
- Scheduling predictability and overscheduling
- Onboarding, orientation, and hiring
- The clinical work environment
- Equity for faculty
- Retention of at-risk faculty groups
The working groups are using the department’s Quality of Life Improvement (QOLI) approach, a novel process that incorporates human-centered design, quality improvement and implementation science as described in an article written by Drs. Jina Sinskey, Joyce Chang, Dorre Nicholau, and Michael Gropper.
The initiation of the working groups is a result of the annual UCSF engagement NPS physician work experience survey conducted in early 2023.
Twelve faculty are participating as either sponsors or leads:
Scheduling predictability and overscheduling
Sponsor: Helge Eilers
Lead: Nick Mendez
Onboarding, orientation, and hiring
Sponsors: Christy Inglis-Arkell, Manny Pardo, Oana Maties
Lead: Jeremy Juang
The clinical work environment
Sponsors: Joyce Chang, Jina Sinskey
Lead: Jenny Woodbury
Equity for faculty
Sponsor: Odi Ehie
Lead: Karen Fleming
Retention of at-risk faculty groups
Sponsors: Jina Sinskey, Odi Ehie
Lead: Ranjani Venkataramani