Staying psychologically safe as a doctor during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Bruce Arroll,
• Christos Lionis,
• Christopher Dowrick,
• Evelyn van Weel-Baumgarten,
• Jill Benson,
• Roger Sexton,
• Christine Gibson,
• Joana Ferreira Veloso Gomes,
• Maria Bakola,
• Abdullah AlKhathami,
• Shimnaz Nazeer,
• Alkisti Igoumenaki,
• Jinan Usta,
• Claudia Allen

Affiliations

Bruce Arroll

Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Christos Lionis

Clinic of Social and Family Medicine, University of Crete School of Medicine, Heraklion, Greece

Christopher Dowrick

Department of Primary Medical Care, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

Evelyn van Weel-Baumgarten

Department of Primary and Community Care, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Jill Benson

Discipline of General Practice, The University of Adelaide School of Medicine, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Roger Sexton

Doctors Health SA, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Christine Gibson

Department of Family Medicine and Psychiatry, University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Joana Ferreira Veloso Gomes

Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal

Maria Bakola

Research Unit for General Medicine and Primary Health Care, University of Ioannina Faculty of Medicine, Ioannina, Greece

Abdullah AlKhathami

Innovative Primary Mental Health Program, Eastern Province, Saudi Arabia Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Shimnaz Nazeer

Family Medicine in Clinical Medicine Department, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, Doha, Qatar

Alkisti Igoumenaki

University Clinic, University Hospital of Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany

Jinan Usta

Family Medicine Department, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

Claudia Allen

Department of Family Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA