During the course of their career, many caregivers will experience either a serious adverse patient event or traumatic personal event.  Clinicians are susceptible to the development of emotional distress, burnout and career dissatisfaction.  If unaddressed, we may turn to maladaptive coping strategies of find that our professional or personal lives are negatively impacted.

The CXO maintains a network of 28 UMass Memorial Health and UMass Chan Medical School clinicians, educators and advocates, a network of your peers, available to talk one-on-one either by telephone or in person.  Members of the Peer Support Network are trained to provide free, confidential and sensitive assistance to our providers during times of need.

If you know of a colleague who might benefit from talking with a peer, or if you yourself are feeling overwhelmed or uncertain about a difficult situation, please email the Clinician Experience Office at bwell@umassmemorial.org or call us at 774-441-7907.  We maintain confidentiality to the fullest extent of the law.