The AMA's Physician and Family Support Program provides confidential support and help with personal health issues and enhances the quality of patient care and public safety by promoting health and well-being for the medical profession that cares for all Albertans.
Download our program info-sheets.
PFSP is provided through an agreement between AMA and Alberta Health.
Physicians, residents and medical students need to be able to voluntarily seek help with the assurance of confidentiality. Working with the AMA's Physician and Family Support Program is one way to ensure that difficulties can be identified and mitigated before a crisis or concern about patient safety arises.
Physicians, resident physicians and medical students.
Their immediate family members (spouse/partner and dependent children under 25).
The PFSP is part of the physician benefits program operated by the AMA.
You can voluntarily seek help from colleagues who understand the issues and working conditions that impact physician health.
You can deal with challenges before they become overwhelming.
The AMA's PFSP provides confidential advice, support and help with accessing necessary resources for personal or professional problems such as the following:
View steps for dealing with adverse events, complaints or a privilege challenge.
New to the AMA's Physician and Family Support Program? Want to know more about the process or what to expect when calling in? Watch our series of short informative videos.
Established by PFSP, the Physicians for Physicians (P4P) service is a confidential network of family physicians who are willing to take colleagues, if possible, as patients in their practices.
View and/or download information regarding confidentiality practices.
View personal and workplace health information addressing a variety of subjects applicable and relevant to all stages of your career.
Register for upcoming PFSP events and view recordings and resources from past events.
The Resident Wellness Conference is a PFSP sponsored event, in collaboration with the University of Alberta and University of Calgary wellness offices and PARA, and held biennially for each of Alberta’s medical school residents.
The Dr. Marnie Hinton Award for Resident Physician Health sponsored by the Alberta Medical Association's Physician and Family Support Program with a generous donation by Bennett Jones LLP, is awarded annually to medical residents who have demonstrated interest in physician health.
Physician Wellness #GOAT is an AMA Physician and Family Support Program initiative that celebrates physicians supporting colleague wellness and who create a more open, supportive and compassionate culture for Alberta physicians.
PFSP recognizes the importance of the emotional and social aspects of physicians' lives in their overall wellness. We invite Alberta physicians in any career stage to send in their original poems/prose to be considered for publication in the PFSP Perspectives column in future issues of Alberta Doctors' Digest.
What is substance use disorder (SUD) and how can the AMA's Physician and Family Support Program help Alberta physicians? PFSP and the College of Physicians & Surgeons of Alberta have partnered with Dr. Teresa Eliasson to create a video to educate physicians about SUD: what it is, how to identify it and where to seek help.