The Medical College of Georgia provides an on campus assessment and counseling program for Housestaff, Faculty, employees, graduate students and immediate members of their family.
The Employee-Faculty Assistance Program focuses on problems of either a personal or a work-related nature. Assessments are provided and, where indicated, short-term therapy may be scheduled for up to six sessions at no cost to the employee/faculty. For persons/families requiring extended counseling or more specialized therapy, the program can arrange continuing care by an appropriate local practitioner or agency.
In addition, EFAP staff are available to consult with supervisors on how to better
recognize and work with employees who are experiencing difficulties of various kinds.
Some common reasons residents/fellows may see the EFAP Office are: stress management, depression, anxiety, burnout, family and relationship issues, communication difficulties, and career/academic concerns. Services are completely confidential, no EHR records.
For more information or for an appointment, please contact the Employee-Faculty Assistance Program at (706) 721-2599 (no referral needed).
Chantelle Brown, MD
Aprylle Thompson, MD
Joshua Fowler, MD
Robert Summers, MD
Objectives:
Dr. Chantelle Brown
Dr. Cynthia Liu
Food and Diet Apps
Tracks meals, snacks, exercise, and water intake; with in-app purchase - recipe ideas and meal recommendations, articles on how to be healthier, diet plans for weight loss, and ability to sync mobile devices to track your activities.
Serves as a coach to help with weight loss and achieving fitness goals.
Cost: Healthy weight: $60/mo.; Diabetes prevention: $90/mo.; Hypertension prevention: $90/mo.
Pros: Less expensive than a personal trainer
Cons: Cost
Health and Exercise Apps
Allows user to build, track, and follow exercise workout plans; can also network with others in fitness community.
Cost: Free (with in-app purchases)
Pros: Works well for tracking weight lifting and other gym workouts; lots of exercises
displayed and explained
Cons: Somewhat burdensome to build workouts
Syncs with scheduling software at over 8500 fitness studios to search, find, and schedule appointments for classes.
Cost: Monthly rates depend on number of classes desired. Charged $15 if you skip a class signed up for within 12 hours
Pros: Variety of classes and helps accountability
Cons: Maximum of 10 classes per month
Prepares you to run in a 5K after running 20-30 minutes three times a week.
Cost: $2.99
Offers step-by-step instructions on workouts; categorizes by body region.
Cost: $3.99
Contains 100+ workouts led by Nike trainer and athletes.
Cost: Free (with in-app purchases)
Pros: Can customize based on type of program
Cons: Range of plans but meant for more rigorous activity than our time often allows
Guides user through yoga routines with breathing instructions; varying session lengths.
Cost: $2.99
Pros: Effective for beginners
Cons: Poses modeled by cartoons; small number of routines
Analyzes sleep cycle and wakes you up during lightest sleep phase
Cost: Free
Pros: Helps those with non-regular sleep patterns
Cons: Has to be plugged in all night; phone has to be in close proximity; easy to hit snooze
Matches music to the tempo of your running pace and previous music preferences.
Cost: Free
Pros: Can manually change tempo
Cons: Does not play entire songs and blends songs
Tracks exercise - more geared to running and biking.
Cost: Free (with in-app purchases)
Pros: Great community to join; user friendly and integrates well with other fitness apps
Cons: Most of focus on long-distance sports; others tracked but less robust features
Like Pandora for workouts; can select type of workout and duration.
Cost: Free
Pros: Quick and easy; can be used in small spaces while on call; does not require equipment
Cons: Can become repetitive
Helps users find nearby outdoor attractions; can view user pictures and comments about attractions.
Cost: Free
Cons: Not as many specifics about sites from inside the app
Encourages running and jogging by getting you addicted to a well-scripted storyline.
Cost: Free
Cons: Does not sync with MapMyRun
Mindfulness and Meditation
Stress management tool that uses breathing exercises.
Cost: Free
Meditations for anxiety, stress, sleep, pain and difficult emotions; sessions for varying levels of experience.
Cost: $4.99
Allows improved awareness, mindfulness, and sleep; breathing exercises; guided, progressive meditation classes; stories to help you fall asleep.
Cost: Free
Daily mood tracker and mini-dairy; helps with mindfulness, prompting day's end reflections, facilitating gratitude, understanding habits, and increasing productivity.
Cost: Free
Provides 30-minute relaxation routine designed to lure even insomniacs into sleep.
Cost: $2.99
Cons: None unless a Scottish accent bothers you.
Guides users through strategies to increase happiness; different "tracks" to choose from; quick 2-3 minute exercises to focus on wellness.
Cost: Free (with in-app purchases). However, many features require upgrades that cost $5-$12 per month
Cons: Cost with upgrades
Down-to-earth mindfulness app; will guide beginners through basics in a simple, no-nonsense way.
Cost: Free 10 introductory episodes; $7.92 monthly subscription after free episodes
Pros: Can cycle through free 10 episodes indefinitely
Cons: Cost
Guided meditations laced with profanity designed to help with stress.
Cost: $1.99
Cons: Not for people who are not a fan of cursing
Guided meditations and talks led by the world's top mindfulness experts, neuroscientists, psychologists and meditation teachers. Winner of "Happiest Apps in the World" by Time.
Cost: Free
Mix several sounds to create a custom track to keep you calm and concentrated.
Cost: $1.99
Provides ability to easily track and monitor mood; provides a robust management system to help engage our emotional health and work to improve it.
Cost: Free (with in-app purchases)
Simple game to help the user "focus on the positive" and "ignore the negative."
Cost: Free
Cons: Game is rather boring
Gives tools to stay productive and emotionally healthy; uses self-assessment to track burnout indicators and also has stress busting and compassion building tools.
Cost: Free
Audience: Geared toward providers for military, so some of the videos are more from that setting
Plays 35 different soundtracks from nature to facilitate sleep and/or relaxation.
Cost: Free (with in-app purchases)
Analyzes your sleep pattern to find the best time to gradually wake you up.
Cost: Free (with in-app purchases)
Allow users to monitor their moods on six preloaded scales; also has customizable scales.
Cost: Free
Meditation app that features two popular meditations; can listen with or without music or nature sounds.
Cost: Free
Contains simple tools to help with coping, relaxation, distraction and positive thinking.
Cost: Free
Audience: Designed for use by patients but seems applicable to providers as well
Professional Scheduling and Personal Planners
Allows for fully customizable checklists.
Cost: $9.99
Pros: Syncs with other device's customizable colors; ability to export and import data
Basically an extension of Google Calendar that gives users more viewing options.
Cost: Free (Pro version is $9.99)
Cons: Not a lot different than Google Calendar; free version has ad banner across the bottom which can be annoying.
Miscellaneous
Promotes concept and beneficial effects of power napping; it is an alarm clock with relaxing sounds to help you fall asleep and wake you back up.
Cost: Free
Cons: No backup if you sleep through the alarm
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