Resident Wellness

Wellness is important. We hope to foster both the growth of a resident and an equally matched amount of resiliency. 

Our residents and faculty often talk about how our program has a “family feel” to it. Our wellness initiatives simply add structure to what has been intuitive for us.  

We strive to promote healthy work/home balance, continue peer support/advocacy as it naturally flourishes as well as provide connections for comradery across all classes of the pediatrics and medicine-pediatrics residents, and to provide professional, emotional, psychological, and social wellness education and outlets since there are so many dimensions of well-being.

Monthly Wellness Activities

Each month protected time is set aside over the lunch hour for residents to unwind and step away from patient care duties. Some past favorites have included a fro-yo bar + all the toppings, chair massages, a coffee and smoothie bar, trivia contest, minimizing burnout lecture, chicken wing bar (every flavor you could imagine!), March Madness bracket competition and first round watch party, journaling, lunch ordered-in from a restaurant selected by on-service residents (outside of our normal favorites), and note-writing to local nursing home residents during pandemic.

Monthly Growth Sessions

Giving Residents Opportunities to Work Toward Health – A monthly large group meeting over lunch at UNMC and Children’s Hospital for residents and select faculty/physician facilitators to decompress at the end of the month. We use this session as an opportunity to share any stressors (work, home, or other) and find a way to work to overcome them. Faculty are available to share insight into their time as a resident and also to share how it relates to life as an attending.