Hospitals can often become unintentional sources of extreme stress for healthcare professionals (HCPs), affecting not only them but also their families, patients, and workplaces. Research shows that clinicians face one of the highest suicide rates among professions, driven by pressures such as medical training demands, malpractice fears, and chronic sleep deprivation. These stressors can lead to insomnia, anxiety, guilt, low job satisfaction, and intrusive memories, potentially escalating to depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, or suicidal thoughts.
Recognizing this, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) in 2017 mandated that institutions provide physicians with access to self-screening tools for mental health assessment. Such screening programs offer both benefits and risks. Benefits: Early detection of at-risk physicians and timely mental health…
