VCOM 2020 Annual Report

ALUMNI BATTLE AGAINST COVID-19

The Physician Support Line

and family dynamics. We want to offer this service to VCOM clinical faculty and our alumni community. We also serve attending physicians, residents, fellows, interns, medical students and their families and friends. Thank you and please help by sharing this resource to those who need it!”

Mona Masood, DO Class of 2012, VCOM-Virginia, Psychiatry, Southampton Psychiatric Associates, Ivyland, PA and Physician Support Line

I am an outpatient psychiatrist in private practice in the greater

Philadelphia area. Most recently, I became the founder and chief organizer of the Physician Support Line, a peer-to-peer support line staffed by over 600 psychiatrists nationwide to help our physician colleagues navigate the COVID-19 pandemic. We operate from the hours of 8 a.m. to midnight seven days a week. The call is free and confidential, and an appointment is not necessary. We have fielded countless calls from physicians across the United States and helped them deal with acute stressors regarding illness, anxieties, insomnia, grief, depression, financial stress, healthcare system grievances

Physician Support Line Free Confidential Peer Support Line by Volunteer Psychiatrists for U.S. Physician Colleagues during the COVID-19 Pandemic 1-888-409-0141 NOW LIVE 7 days a week | 8 a.m.-12 midnight EST www.physiciansupportline.com

COVID-19 Positive Psychiatric Unit I am the medical director of psychiatry at Southern Maine Health Care and am running a COVID-positive psychiatric unit. We converted our unit to negative pressure and built a wall to create an ante room. We made stickers with our faces and names so

Joanna Arch Gratton, DO Class of 2007, VCOM-Virginia, Director of Psychiatry, Riverview Psychiatric Center, Augusta, ME

patients can see what we actually look like as well. So far, so good!”

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