Thriving in your neurology career

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 Your health matters to the AAN and we're here to help you rekindle your passion for neurology, prevent burnout, and restore your resiliency and well-being.  We offer a variety of resources explicitly curated to help you cultivate well-being and resiliency in your life. Resource areas include: what we know, what you can do, and what your practice can do. Explore this collection of support services, best practices, studies, and practical applications, and connect with your colleagues to share your wellness journey during these challenging times.

 

Thriving in Neurology webinar series

This quarterly series is dedicated to integrating best practices for wellness into the neurology workplace. Learn practical tips from your colleagues for implementing wellness into your career at any level. Facilitated conversations complement each webinar, and allow members to build community and share ideas with like-minded colleagues. 

Upcoming webinar

How to Enhance Neurology Trainee Well-Being Through Resilient Residency Programs: March 14, 2025, 10:00 a.m.–11:00 a.m. CT. 

  • Trainee well-being impacts program culture, patient care, and the future of the neurology workforce. Fortunately, program leaders are empowered to address drivers of well-being unique to residency and fellowship, such as curriculum structure, scheduling, and interpersonal dynamics. This webinar will bring together neurology educators Jeff Dewey, MD; Elizabeth Coon, MD, FAAN; and former chief resident Reece Hass, MD. They will discuss external contributors to resident and fellow well-being, as well as strategies to build programmatic resilience that will ensure trainees can thrive throughout this formative phase of their careers.

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Our well-being is directly related to the well-being of our patients. In the practice of neurology, we serve people with complicated, life altering conditions. This requires compassion, complex cognitive work, rapid decision making, and so much more. Burnout can rob us of these crucial skills. It’s imperative that we work in environments that optimize our opportunity for wellbeing so we can be the neurologists that our patients want and deserve.

Jennifer Bickel, MD, FAAN, Chair, Wellness Subcommittee

Share your stories and suggestions

Whether it's a success story about resiliency or an idea you wish to share, we want to hear it! 

Email Member Services with your feedback. 

Support services

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