On Demand Grand Rounds: Physician Suicide: How Postvention Informs Prevention

This presentation was originally reviewed on February 8, 2021, and broadcast live online on February 10, 2021, from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ET. 

The views and opinions expressed by this presenter in this lecture are their own, and do not represent the views of Sheppard Pratt.

Despite physician suicide research on personal and workplace stressors, personality traits, psychological vulnerabilities, and psychiatric illness in doctors, the published literature is sparse on information obtained from intimate others. This lecture will inform learners about the insights of family members, colleagues, training directors, and therapists of physicians who have taken their lives. Learners will feel better equipped in reaching out to ailing colleagues and in treating physicians as patients.

Target Audience

This activity is intended for physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, and other mental health professionals.

Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this lecture, attendees will be able to:

  1. Discuss the insights gleaned from the loved ones of doctors who have killed themselves.
  2. Explain the ways in which stigma works against timely and effective life-saving treatment of suicidal physicians.
  3. Describe systemic, educational, and therapeutic changes that will help to save lives of symptomatic physicians.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Category II credits for Social Workers
  • 1.00 Psychologists
  • 1.00 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
  • 1.00 Participation
Course opens: 
09/13/2021
Course expires: 
09/11/2023

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About this speaker:

Dr. Myers is a recent past Vice-Chair of Education and Director of Training in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at SUNY-Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY. He is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the same institution where he continues to teach and serve on the College of Medicine Admissions Committee. He is also medical student Ombudsman.
Dr Myers graduated in medicine from the University of Western Ontario in 1966 and did residencies at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, Wayne State University (Detroit General Hospital), and the University of British Columbia. After completing his residency training in 1973 and until 2008, he taught half-time at UBC and was in private practice half-time in Vancouver. He is board certified in Psychiatry by both the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada and the American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology.

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Michael F. Myers, MD, reports as having no financial interest, arrangement or affiliation with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients, during the past 12 months. He will not discuss any products or services consumed by, or used on patients in this presentation.

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NBCC Counselor Statement: No NBCC Credit Available

Available Credit

  • 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.00 Category II credits for Social Workers
  • 1.00 Psychologists
  • 1.00 MNA Contact Hours for Nurses
  • 1.00 Participation

Michael F. Myers, MD
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry 
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Brooklyn, New York

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Grand Rounds: How Postvention Informs Prevention

Michael F. Myers, MD
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry 
Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Brooklyn, New York

Originally reviewed February 8, 2021.
Originally broadcast live February 10, 2021, from 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm ET
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