Resources for Physician Parents
- Family Planning for Medical Trainees is a group of physicians and physicians-to-be based out of the University of Toronto Temerty Faculty of Medicine who are passionate about providing medical trainees with the tools they need to build their families as they want to. This website was created for Canadian medical trainees to highlight useful information you may need about family planning in a medical career https://www.familyplanningfordocs.com/
- The Canadian Medical Association provides resources on their Wellness Hub “to help physicians and their families manage and overcome the challenges that arise throughout a career in medicine and build better relationships”: https://www.cma.ca/physician-wellness-hub/topics/physicians-and-their-families
- Resident Doctors of BC has a comprehensive collection of resources for parenting before, during and after leave: https://residentdoctorsbc.ca/resources/parenting/.
- Medicine and Motherhood: Can We Talk? Written by the Task Force on the Accommodation of the Pregnant Physician, and published by the Physician Health Program of British Columbia: https://www.physicianhealth.com/sites/default/files/images/MedicineAndMotherhood2010.pdf
- Mothers in Medicine, a group blog by physician-mothers, writing about the unique challenges and joys of tending to two distinct patient populations, both of whom can be quite demanding:
http://www.mothersinmedicine.com/
Physician parents may also find these podcasts interesting:
- EM-RAP: https://www.emrap.org/
- Peds-RAP: https://www.hippoed.com/peds/rap/
- Primary care RAP: https://www.hippoed.com/pc/rap/
General Parenting Websites
Check out these parenting websites for help and resources:
- Mothers In Medicine: http://www.mothersinmedicine.com
- Fatherly: https://www.fatherly.com/
- Well Family: https://www.nytimes.com/section/well/family
General Parenting Podcasts
Search for these podcasts on parenting-related ideas:
- Good Inside with Dr. Becky: https://www.goodinside.com/podcast/
- Motherhood in Black and White: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1239269
- The Longest Shortest Time: http://longestshortesttime.com/
- Grownups Read Things They Wrote as Kids: https://grownupsreadthingstheywroteaskids.com/podcast/
- Motherhood Sessions: https://open.spotify.com/show/3ltqdX9Em1RtnJNqR3UxrS
- Mom and Dad Are Fighting: http://www.slate.com/articles/podcasts/mom_and_dad_are_fighting.html