How to Apply
How to Apply
Application Deadline
September 30, 2026
Interview Dates
September - October 2026
2027 Program Dates
November 12, 2026 (Day-long Wellbeing Symposium)
2nd Wednesday of each month January - December 2027
4-6:30 p.m.
November 11, 2027 (Day-long Wellbeing Symposium)
Before You Begin
- Confirm that you meet the published program requirements. If you cannot confirm each requirement, please address the specific requirement directly in your application.
- Review the full program schedule and discuss the time commitment with your supervisor.
- Identify one primary driver of occupational distress that you want to understand and address.
- Obtain support from your supervisor/chair/chief.
Before applying, please review the questions you'll be asked and the information you will need.
How Applications Will Be Considered
OWB WBF Program team will consider both the applicant and the proposed focus: leadership and change-readiness, understanding of the driver, evidence and colleague input, realistic scope, and ability to meet commitments. Cohort composition may also be considered to build a group with varied roles, settings, perspectives, and areas of focus.
What Will Make a Strong Application
- Center the application on a real work-environment condition rather than a general interest in wellness.
- Explain why one primary driver is the best lens for understanding the need.
- Use available data, observations, and colleague experience while naming what still needs to be learned.
- Propose a manageable starting point with potential for meaningful impact or transferable learning.
- Show willingness to engage affected colleagues and refine the idea rather than defend a predetermined solution.
- Be candid about barriers, dependencies, resources, and support needs.
Application Information
Before applying, please review the following questions you'll be asked and the information you will need.
Basic information and required program-profile materials.
- Full name and credentials
- Name you would like us to use
- Pronouns
- Email address
- Phone number
- Current title
- Department, division, unit, or program
- Primary work location or site
- Role or discipline
- Name, title, and email address of supervisor/chair/chief
Can you commit to the program expectations listed below?
- Faculty or staff employed by the University of Rochester Medicine.
- Attend 11 cohort sessions | 2nd Wednesday of each month | 4:00PM - 6:30PM | January 13, 2027 - December 8, 2027
- Attendance to the 2026 Wellbeing Symposium on November 12, 2026
- Attendance to the 2027 Wellbeing Symposium on November 11, 2027
- Participate actively in learning labs, peer feedback, coaching or mentoring, and between session work.
- Complete required progress updates, presentations, and final deliverables, including monthly project updates, mid-point presentations, symposium poster presentations, and regular program evaluations.
- Remain engaged as a local wellbeing leader and program alumnus after the formal cohort concludes.
- Have support from local leadership including time to attend the program sessions and events, and project sponsorship to advance a wellbeing initiative in your local area.
Attestation of supervisor/chair/chief endorsement: Supervisor’s name, title, email address
This attestation confirms your supervisor’s awareness of the application; support for the applicant's participation and required time; support for reasonable access to colleagues, data, and local leaders; and willingness to help address barriers when appropriate.
Is there anything about your workload, schedule, access, or support needs that the selection committee should understand?
Sharing a support need will not automatically disqualify an applicant. This information helps the program team assess feasibility and identify accommodations or resources.
Help us understand why this program is the right next step for you.
Why do you want to participate in the Wellbeing Fellowship, and how do you hope to use the experience?
Focus on the leader you want to become and the role you hope to play in your local setting and across the organization - not only on completing a single initiative.
Select the system-level condition at the center of your proposed area of focus.
Select one primary driver. You may also impact other drivers, but your application should be centered on the primary driver so the need remains focused and actionable.
- Workload and Job Demands: The volume, pace, complexity, intensity, or unpredictability of work, including staffing, coverage, competing responsibilities, and expectations that exceed available capacity.
- Efficiency and Resources: Whether workflows, team design, staffing, tools, technology, information, and processes allow people to do their work effectively without avoidable administrative burden or rework.
- Control and Flexibility: The degree of autonomy and influence people have over how, when, and where work is done, including schedules, priorities, processes, and decisions that affect daily work.
- Work-Life Integration: The ability to meet professional and personal responsibilities in a sustainable way, including schedule predictability, recovery time, coverage, and boundaries around work.
- Social Support and Community at Work: The strength of connection, teamwork, belonging, trust, and peer or leader support at work - or the experience of isolation, fragmentation, or disconnection.
- Organizational Culture and Values: Whether the lived work environment reflects fairness, respect, psychological safety, recognition, trust, and alignment between organizational practices and the values people hold.
- Meaning in Work: The degree to which people can connect their daily work to purpose, contribution, patients, colleagues, or mission and spend meaningful time on the parts of work they value most.
Framework note: Titles are drawn from the AMA's Key Drivers of Burnout and Engagement in Physicians framework. Explanations are written in plain language for this application and are intended to support applicants from varied roles and work settings.
Which primary driver do you wish to address? Provide some background.