2024 Stanford Medicine Doctor Survey

Stanford remains committed to identifying system actions we can take to improve the practice environment for faculty and trainees. To best inform this progress, we need to hear directly from you about your everyday experience. One of the quickest, most impactful ways to share your perspective is by taking a few minutes to answer the 2024 Stanford Medicine Doctor Survey.

This survey is an opportunity to have your voice heard and drive improvement across the organization. It is the first step in a robust improvement cycle that involves the school, including each department and program, as well as the hospitals and clinics. It informs the hospitals, clinical departments, units, and programmatic areas about where opportunities exist. Your responses, along with those from previous surveys, will continue to inform and prioritize the system improvement efforts in your department, division, or program to make Stanford a better place for all to practice and learn. 

This survey is an opportunity to have your voice heard and drive improvement across the organization. Data from previous surveys, along with other channels through which you have shared your input and suggestions, have been used to drive both organization-wide and specialty-specific change, including:

• Initiatives to improve workflows and inefficiencies in the practice environment, including operational improvement projects in every department to improve physician well-being.
• Efforts to mitigate mistreatment from patients, visitors, and coworkers.
• Launch of an enterprise-wide administrative effort to measure and reduce EHR work burden including developing efforts to recognize this work as well as new team based-care and staffing models to deliver more effective asynchronous care.
• And more, including specific support programs for physicians who are parents and colleagues who are lactating; and resources to improve work-life integration, including free concierge services.

Your perspective is valued and does make a difference.

When we began our physician and scientist wellness efforts, it was apparent that assessment of faculty and trainee wellness status and contributing factors was necessary on a regular basis. Such evaluations help us to understand the state of our faculty and trainees, their most pressing concerns, and target improvement efforts. Additionally the survey helps us assess change over time in wellness variables, which informs the evaluation of programs and strategies intended to improve well-being.

To that end, the WellMD & WellPhD team has led the development and validation of many scales in the surveys to measure clinician and scientist wellness and professional fulfillment.

Due to the interest in our survey nationally and our desire to be a data repository for faculty wellness, we have created the Healthcare Professional Well-being Academic Consortium (PWAC) to support other academic institutions in their wellness needs and obtain survey benchmarks from peer institutions. PWAC assists medical organizations in longitudinal assessment of their medical providers and determination of internal need for interventions. The consortium offers the survey to multiple provider types including medical staff, residents, fellows, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. Find more information about the consortium on the PWAC website.

The survey is being administered by a third-party organization, SullivanLuallin Group, an independent survey administrator. Your personally identifiable data associated with this survey will not be available to any Stanford employee and will be accessible only to limited personnel appointed to manage the data and the IT personnel who maintain the data at the SullivanLuallin Group. 

Stanford Medicine will adhere to the laws and policies in place to protect the confidentiality of your personal information. Your personally identifiable information will NOT be shared with Stanford Medicine. Your anonymized information will become part of a database that will be used to generate aggregate results and survey reports. Identifiable data will not be released for any reason. Data released by SullivanLuallin Group to Stanford for any approved purpose will first be de-identified by removing any personal identifying information in addition to removing demographic information when combinations of any demographic information (e.g. age group, gender, race, ethnicity, department, division, or academic rank information) are unique to any group of fewer than five individuals.

Since this survey is a medical staff quality initiative, California Code 1157 protects responses from these surveys from legal discovery. Disclosure from the survey cannot be required even in a court of law.

View the full privacy statemement for core faculty and GME

View the full privacy statement for adjuncts, affiliates, and PCHA clinicians

This survey collects information regarding the following: Professional Fulfillment, Burnout, EHR Helpfulness, Efficiency of Clinical Practice, Organizational Leadership, Organizational & Personal Values Alignment, Turnover Intention, Work Hours and Load, Self-Valuation, Sleep-Related Impairment, Negative Impact of Work on Relationships, Mistreatment, Protection and Respect, Help Seeking Stigma, Teamwork and Safety Climate, Belonging, Isolation, Lactation Challenges, Demographics, Specialty, Sub-Specialty, Areas of Distress, and suggestions for improvement. You may skip any question you prefer not to answer, choose "Prefer not to answer" where applicable, or go back and change your selections before submitting the survey. 

Your responses will be used primarily for the purpose of helping Stanford Medicine take data-driven actions to improve our practice environment and help guide system-level improvements to increase both the quality of care we provide as well as the well-being and professional fulfillment of our faculty, residents, and fellows. Your personally identifiable data will not be available to any Stanford employee. Only your de-identified data will be shared with Stanford. Data collected from this survey will be used for the following additional purposes, as permitted or required by law:

• Improving quality of care and teamwork across Stanford Medicine
• Providing norms against which sub-groups can be compared
• Suggesting recommendations to inform programming to improve well-being for physicians, doctoral clinical faculty, residents, and fellows
• Evaluating relationships between wellness variables as well as demographic and professional characteristics to enhance and customize efforts to improve wellness
• Applying for, and/or to justify, funding for programs that will help promote well-being for physicians, doctoral clinical faculty, residents, and fellows
• Assessing change over time in wellness variables, to inform the evaluation of programs and strategies intended to improve well-being

When used for these purposes, your survey data will be combined with the data of other respondents, as well as data collected from other organizations, and subjected to aggregated data analysis and reporting to groups and individuals within Stanford Medicine. No personally-identifying information will be included in such reports. 

By completing our survey, you agree that your data may be gathered and stored in our database. If you would like your data changed or removed from our database, or if you have any other questions or concerns, please email us at wellmdcenter@stanford.edu. After the survey closes and a data set has been rigorously de-identified, we will not be able to remove individual respondents’ data from the de-identified data set.

All active Stanford Medicine physicians and doctoral-level faculty who have clinical duties are asked to complete the survey, including members of the university tenure, medical center, clinician educator lines, clinical residents and fellows, adjuncts, affiliates, instructors, recalled emerti, part-time faculty, and PCHA clinicians. If you have received this survey in error, please contact us at wellmdcenter@stanford.edu.

The 2024 Stanford Medicine Doctor Survey is open Tuesday, March 19 - Tuesday, April 30, 2024.

The survey should take about 10-15 minutes to complete.

An email invitation from Stanford Medicine Chief Wellness Officer <surveys@sullivanluallingroup.com> was sent to all eligible participants on Tuesday, March 19, 2024, with a link to the online survey. Periodic email reminders, containing the same email link, are sent to those who haven’t responded until the survey closes on Tuesday, April 30, 2024. The survey can be completed in one session or in multiple sessions using the same link.

If you have trouble finding the survey invitation email or reminders, please search your inbox or spam folder using the hashtag: #2024DoctorSurvey

Alternatively, you can follow the appropriate QR code and and link to the survey will be emailed to you immediately.

Core Faculty: https://surveys.sullivanluallin.com/IDLink.aspx?C=2097&S=D&AL=2

GME: https://surveys.sullivanluallin.com/IDLink.aspx?C=2099&S=C&AL=2

The three faculty departments, residency programs, and fellowship programs with the highest response rates will each receive $50 per respondent to be used for physician development and professional fulfillment activities. Additionally, this year, each department and program not in the top 3 but which achieves at least a 75% response rate, will receive $10 per respondent to be used for physician development and professional fulfillment activities.

We would appreciate your help in encouraging your colleagues to complete the survey as well. They can find the link to the survey by searching “#2024DoctorSurvey” in their email inbox.

Shortly after the survey closes on April 30, organization-wide results will be shared with you. Additionally, each Chair, Chief, and Program Director with at least 5 responders will receive a summary report for their area, and will share the reports with you. These results and subsequent listening sessions will help inform local improvement efforts.

Please feel free to email us at wellmdcenter@stanford.edu.