THE University of Alabama in Birmingham Department of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine recently participated in a study with results that were published In the anesthesiology of the newspaper evaluated by peers in February 2025.
Designed by a multi-institutional team of researchers from the UCLA, the Northwestern University, the University of Illinois, Chicago and the UAB, Wish-The well-being of influencers for health care-is a new assessment measuring the engines / influencers of well-being in the workplace. By going beyond the traditional assessments of professional exhaustion and professional development, the tool examines factors that promote sustainable and enriching careers for health workers.
Elizabeth Duggan, MD, Associate Professor and Vice-President of Professional Development and Professors’ Commitment to the Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, collaborated with the team to develop desire content and establish its validity as an evaluation tool. The wish gives relevant information for stakeholders, by quantifying well-being at individual and climatic levels to provide a framework to conceptualize change.
“There are many validated evaluations examining individual well-being states, such as professional exhaustion, commitment, stress and work satisfaction; However, we wanted to create a tool that provides useful data to support action, ”said Duggan. “The wish moves the well-being of systemic factors, offering clear advice to which to make significant changes to promote more sustained and lasting careers in health care.”
Duggan says that its main role has been to act as an expert in content to design investigation, to determine the history and the linked results and to contribute to efforts to guarantee the validity of the evaluation.
“We spent a lot of time planning our validation process – the content, structural, convergent and discriminating, simultaneous and predictive validity were all included. We wanted to build a tool that met rigorous scientific standards for an assessment, “said Duggan.
With the department of anesthesiology and perioperative medicine of the UAB recently by taking this survey, the results will be used to validate the data on several institutions and also to provide the department its own set of data to adopt the change.
“Currently, the wish has only been validated in the anesthesiology departments, but we would be delighted to start going to other specialties to validate,” said Duggan. “We hope that the initial data is sufficiently convincing that the first adopters will join our efforts to validate the health care system.”