There is hope and you can help.
Healthcare can be the healthiest place to work.
Healthcare should be the healthiest industry.
We trust physicians and those in healthcare with our health, but we need to keep them safe as well. Sharp Index is a nonprofit with a mission to improve physician and clinician mental health. The Index is also a free tool to measure burnout, mental health, and what matters. We are dedicated to improving mental health for physicians and clinicians.
Join us in our journey to heal the healers
Sharp Index joins the Health Catalyst Healthcare Analytics Conference as the 2024 Charity Partner. Join us in making technology something that helps improve healthcare.
Healing in Healthcare
Sharp Index Scholarship 2024
Created in memory of John Madsen, who died by suicide before completing residency. The Sharp Index Scholarship program is designed to improve healthcare mental health and medical education.
The 2024 theme is “Preventing suicide in medicine by healing and community. What does ‘healing in healthcare’ mean to you?”
Applications Open
We support physicians and healthcare workers and invite all to join us in our work to allow them to be healers, not heroes. Healthcare can be the healthiest profession.
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The best way to understand someone is to listen. Ask them what is important. Then listen.
Give individuals the autonomy to choose how they want to improve. The Sharp Index is a free tool to measure mental health and burnout, as well as share your top priorities. We cannot improve healthcare without measuring mental health as well as healthcare workforce burnout. Sharp Index participates in programs and partnerships that advance understanding of and improvement of clinician lives.
Physician Voices
Each year, one million patients lose their physician to suicide.
Physician voices should be part of decision making and improving healthcare for patients, payers, and other clinicians.
We share those stories with international events, digital communication, and partner with media in a grassroots movement to improve healthcare. From patients to families to coworkers, we all have an interest in ensuring healthcare workers are protected. Everyone has the power to change the world through their story.
Innovation in Mental Health
As experts in clinician wellbeing and innovation in technology and healthcare, we partner with foundations, government, healthcare systems and individuals to develop innovation in mental health. We have partnered with individuals and projects to build the foundation of funds, direct action grants, and research in electronic health records.
Build something with your passion and purpose.
Email partnership <at> sharpindex.org to learn more.
Foundations in MedEd
75% of medical students graduate with a median debt of about $200,000. As a result, physicians have no choice but to think about and make decisions based on finances to some extent. Female clinicians also face stigma and toxic messaging about having a family and leadership. Students who can’t borrow large amounts of money and put their lives on hold never get the chance to enter medicine.
We have scholarships for health equity and for those studying mental health in medicine. Improving health equity starts with making education available to people who look like the communities they are trained to serve.
Technology for Good
Physicians spend hours after work taking notes and cite administrative burden as a source of burnout.
Advocacy is important for individuals and organizations, in order to create tools that enable healers to do their work. We partner with technology corporations dedicated to improving health care and physician lives.
Join us as a corporate giving partner, to raise awareness, or publish research advancing mental health.