Open AccessClinician Well-being during a Pandemic: Practices to Boost Resilience and Life Satisfaction
Author(s) -
Michael W. Wiederman,
Brett G Toresdahl,
Irfan M. Asif
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
current sports medicine reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.424
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1537-8918
pISSN - 1537-890X
DOI - 10.1249/jsr.0000000000000786
Subject(s) - flourishing , pandemic , resilience (materials science) , sports medicine , psychological resilience , medicine , life satisfaction , covid-19 , well being , pain medicine , psychology , social psychology , psychiatry , anesthesiology , psychotherapist , physics , disease , pathology , virology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , thermodynamics
The role of the sports medicine physician has been challenged in several ways during the COVID-19 pandemic, potentially eroding a sense of well-being. Four universal human needs related to flourishing and a sense of life satisfaction are the framework we use to examine the effects of a pandemic on sports medicine clinicians. We offer two evidence-based practices to promote well-being and resilience within each of the four universal needs.