Data in Brief

May 2025

Data in Brief - IM Resident Wellness Offerings: Looking Back Six Years Later

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This month’s Data in Brief revisits the 2019 APDIM Annual Survey of Residency Program Directors (PDs), which explored ACGME’s Common Program Requirements component on resident wellness. Among 30 resident wellness offerings presented in the survey, an average of nine was reported by PDs. Although access to an employee assistance program was the most-reported item a subsequent analysis revealed that several offerings clustered into families of topics or “factors." For example, promoting social activities, training in patient interactions, and access to “wellness champions” emerged as the greatest factor. 

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May 2025 Data-in-Brief

Source: 2019 APDIM Annual Survey of Internal Medicine Residency Program Directors.
Slide 2: Factor analysis / correlation: Method: principal-component factors; Rotation: orthogonal varimax.

By the Numbers

Slide 1:
Wellness Program Components Offered to Internal Medicine Residents (Percent)		 Slide 2:
Twelve Wellness Program Domains (“Factors”) Offered to Internal Medicine Residents
  • 293 survey respondents.
  • 280 reported that residents had access to a wellness program.
  • 30 original responses to “What components of a wellness program are offered to residents?”
  • Multiple responses allowed.
  • In total, 2,050 items selected.
  • Exploratory factor analysis used to test for which response options clustered into “families” of wellness offerings.
  • 293 survey respondents.
  • 280 reported that residents had access to a wellness program.
  • 30 original response options to “What components of a wellness program are offered to residents?”
  • Multiple responses allowed.
  • In total, 2,050 items selected.
  • 12 “Domains” identified through exploratory factor analysis.

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