• With the guidance of program leadership, we have formed a resident-led Wellness Committee which focuses on brainstorming and implementing initiatives to bolster wellbeing and resilience. Recently, the committee has created self-care kits for resident use while on call.
• All residents are encouraged to attend Office Hours focused on wellness. These are opportunities to speak directly with the APD for wellness about the transition to residency and debriefing complex clinical encounters. 
• Each firm hosts periodic small group sessions on building resilience. These sessions are led by experts in skills-building. 
• Our residents are actively engaged with the GME office on institutional wellbeing initiatives.

Inclusive Excellence

The Osler Associate Program Director for Inclusive Excellence is responsible for:

• Creating an inclusive, supportive learning environment, community, and culture where residents of all backgrounds will thrive and feel empowered to succeed during their residency training
• Promoting health equity through education, community building for residents, and community engagement
• Serving as a faculty mentor for residents interested in above
• Promoting scholarship in health equity by residents through linkage to faculty mentors and funding opportunities
• Synergizing with Graduate Medical Education leadership to coordinate events to promote above

Osler Unbound: Narrative Medicine In the Osler Program

Osler Unbound is the Osler Medical Residency’s narrative medicine program, creating a dedicated space for residents to reflect on the human dimensions of medicine and develop their voices as physicians and writers.

Approximately once a month, interested residents gather over lunch or dinner to explore narrative medicine, “medicine practiced with the skills of recognizing, absorbing, interpreting, and being moved by the stories of illness.” Sessions engage topics such as written advocacy, personal disclosure, imagination and fiction, the ethics of storytelling, writing about grief and suffering, empathy and burnout, developing a public voice, and navigating the publishing process. Activities range from structured writing exercises and discussion of published work to workshopping residents’ own pieces and conversations with guest authors.

The group offers a chance to connect with co-residents beyond the clinical environment and to cultivate a community in which reflection, creativity, vulnerability, and attention to patients’ stories are valued as integral parts of being a physician.

The program evolves with the interests of its participants. Residents have used Osler Unbound to develop essays and other writing for publication, including pieces ultimately published in venues such as The New England Journal of Medicine’s Perspective section.

The following Johns Hopkins Center for Innovative Medicine seminar highlighted Osler Unbound and describes the initiative in further detail: “Osler Unbound: Cultivating Reflection, Voice, and Humanism in Residency”