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Key Result Area 2: Well being

The AMA supports members in maintaining healthy work-life integration, including being a leader in the development of a comprehensive physician health program. The AMA also supports physicians in their efforts to attain safe, healthy and equitable work environments.

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Goal 1: Physicians are supported in maintaining their own health and that of their families.

Priority activities
  1. Optimize PFSP to address increasing need by improving communication of available supports, including preventative health supports.
  1. Support physicians with health conditions affected by changes related to the CPSA’s transition from the Physician Health Monitoring Program to the new Health and Practice Conditions Monitoring program.

Goal 2: The AMA is committed to working with and for physicians to address system issues which impede attaining a safe, healthy equitable working environment.

Priority activities

  1.  Advance and review the AMA’s Healthy Working Environments Framework and strategy in the areas of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI), psycho-social wellness and safety, and leadership.

  • Host and/or cross-promote learning opportunities and webinars related to wellness, EDI, and leadership for AMA members. 
  • Curate a list of key resources/tools related to EDI and healthy working environments. 
  • Update and re-launch the AMA Physician Leadership Toolkit for Encouraging and Promoting Diversity and Inclusion. 
  • Explore ways for the AMA to develop future physician leaders and provide learning opportunities for members. 
  • Support members with tools to advance healthy work environments.

2.  Contribute to the ongoing process of reconciliation guided by the Indigenous Health Committee.

  • Expand Indigenous representation within the AMA. 
  • Address ‘safety’ at RF (Representative Forum) including an evaluation and action plan. 
  • Deliver Indigenous health and cultural safety education. 
  • Developing and delivering a multichannel Indigenous Forward and allyship communications plan. 
3.  Advocate for a safe, healthy, equitable working environment for physicians within each of the four provincial health agencies and the underling service delivery organizations, and support AMA physician leaders engaged in discussions as the restructuring unfolds. This includes advocacy at the AMA-AH working table, at various working committees and advisory groups, and directly with government and the newly established organizations on a range of issues (e.g., physician representation, medical staff bylaws, health human resources, etc.).