Doctors’ Health Publications
M Gunja, et al. Stressed Out and Burned Out: The Global Primary Care Crisis. Findings from the 2022 International Health Policy Survey of Primary Care Physicians. The Commonwealth Fund. 2022.
Wijeratne C, et al. Australia needs to implement a national health strategy for doctors. MJA. 2022.
Dorrigan A. New Year’s Resolutions for GPs. Insight+. 2022.
Arnold-Forster A, et al. Obstacles to Physicians’ Emotional Health — Lessons from History. New England Journal of Medicine. 2022.
Swannell C. Mental health: why doctors don’t seek help. Insight+. 2022.
Benson J, Sexton R, Dowrick C, et al. Staying psychologically safe as a doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic. Fam Med Com Health. 2022.
Medicine’s stigma of mental illness made me hang up my stethoscope. .
Inglis J. Roadmap for improving trainee wellbeing. InSight January 2022.
Judkins S et al. The other long COVID: impacts on health systems and clinicians. InSight January 2022.
Beamtree and Health Roundtable. Addressing Burnout: Bringing data-driven solutions, care and hope to the health workforce. Beamtree 2021.
McLindon E, Humphreys C, Hegarty K. “It happens to clinicians too”: an Australian prevalence study of intimate partner and family violence against health professionals. BMC Womens Health. 2018.
Shanafelt TD, Noseworthy JH. Executive Leadership and Physician Well-being: Nine Organizational Strategies to Promote Engagement and Reduce Burnout. Mayo Clin Proc. 2017.
Shanafelt TD et al. Addressing Physician Burnout. The Way Forward. 2017.
West CP, Dyrbye LN, Erwin PJ, Shanafelt TD. Interventions to prevent and reduce physician burnout: a systematic review and meta-analysis. 2016.
Shanafelt TD, Hasan O, Dyrbye LN, Sinsky C, Satele D, Sloan J, West CP. Changes in Burnout and Satisfaction with Work-Life Balance in Physicians and the General US Working Population between 2011 and 2014. Mayo Clin Proc. 2015.
Expert Advisory Group on discrimination, bullying and sexual harassment. Report to the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons. Melbourne, Victoria: Royal Australasian College of Surgeons; Sept 2015.
Mata DA, Ramos MA, Bansal N, et al. Prevalence of depression and depressive symptoms among resident physicians: a systematic review and meta-analysis. JAMA 2015.
Bodenheimer T, Sinsky C. From triple to quadruple aim: care of the patient requires care of the provider. Ann Fam Med. 2014.
beyondblue, National Mental Health Survey of Doctors and Medical Students. Melbourne, Victoria: beyondblue; Oct 2013.
Frank E, et al. The association between physicians’ and patients’ preventive health practices. CMAJ 2013.
Kolves K, De Leo D. Suicide in Medical Doctors and Nurses. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2013.
Henderson M, et al. Shame! Self-stigmatisation as an obstacle to sick doctors returning to work: a qualitative study. BMJ Open. 2012.
Nash L, et al. Perceived practice change in Australian doctors as a result of medicolegal concerns. 2010; MJA; 193(10): 579-583.
Nash L, et al. Factors associated with psychiatric morbidity and hazardous alcohol use in Australian doctors. 2010; MJA; 193(3): 161-166.
Nash L, et al. Australian doctors’ involvement in medicolegal matters: a cross-sectional self-report study. MJA. 2009.
Wallace JE, et al. Physician wellness: a missing quality indicator. Lancet 2009.
Nash L et al. Psychological morbidity in Australian doctors who have and have not experienced a medico-legal matter: cross-sectional survey. Aust NZJ Psychiatry. 2007.
For additional papers by Associate Professor Louise Nash go to: https://www.sydney.edu.au/medicine-health/about/our-people/academic-staff/louise-nash.html
MJA Insight articles by Prof Leanne Rowe (AM)
Endemic bullying: narcissistic personality disorder in medicine. 2019.
Bullying in medicine: a harm minimisation approach. 2019.
Our Articles and Reports
Authored/co-authored by DHQ team members.
Judkins S. and Colleagues. Wellbeing Charter for Doctors: righting wrongs. InSight. August 2021.
Forbes MP, Iyengar S, Kay M. Barriers to the psychological well-being of Australian junior doctors: a qualitative analysis. BMJ Open. 2019.
Forbes M, Byrom L, van der Steenstraten I, Markwell A, Bretherton H, Kay M. Resilience on the Run – an evaluation of a wellbeing program for medical interns. Intern Med J. 2019.
Kay M, Durham J, Iyengar S. The Staying Well Outback Program Report 2018. Submission to WQPHN on behalf of the Queensland Doctors’ Health Programme.
Giroldi E, Freeth R, Hanssen M, Muris JWM, Kay M, Cals JWL. Family Physicians managing medical requests from family and friends. Ann Fam Med. 2018.
Burridge LH, Winch S, Kay M, Henderson AJ. Building compassion literacy: Enabling care in primary health care nursing. Collegian. 2017.
Forbes MP, Arthur T, Manoharan B, Jones R, Kay M. Junior doctors and overtime: the Queensland experience. Intern Med J. 2016.
Kay M, O’Dwyer S, Cooke G, Fergusson L. My Health: A Doctors’ Wellbeing Survey 2016. Brisbane: Medical Employment and Workforce Planning Unit, Metro South Hospital and Health Service, 2016.
Winch S, Henderson AJ, Kay M, Burridge LH, Livesay GJ, Sinnott MJ. Understanding compassion literacy in nursing through a clinical compassion cafe. J Contin Educ Nurs. 2014.
Goiran N, Kay M, Nash L Haysom G. Mandatory reporting of health professionals: The case for a Western Australian style exemption for all Australian practitioners. Journal of Law and Medicine. 2014.
Kay M. Do we over dramatize Family Physicians burn-out? Yes. Canadian Family Physician. 2012.
Kay M, Mitchell G, Clavarino A, Frank E. Developing a framework for understanding doctors’ health access: a qualitative study of Australian GPs. Australian Journal of Primary Health. 2011.
Kay M, Mitchell G, Clavarino A. What doctors want? A consultation method when the patient is a doctor. Australian Journal of Primary Health. 2010.
Kay M, Mitchell G, Clavarino A, Doust J. Doctors as Patients: a systematic review of doctors’ health access and the barriers they experience. British Journal of General Practice. 2008.
Kay M, Del Mar C, Mitchell G. Does legislation reduce harm to doctors who prescribe for themselves? Australian Family Physician. 2005.
Kay M, Mitchell G, Del Mar C. Doctors do not adequately look after their own physical health. Medical Journal of Australia. 2004.