Doctors' Health Alliance 2026 Webinar Series -
practical support from leaders in doctors' health.
The Doctors' Health Alliance webinar series provides practical, evidence-informed education on doctors' health and wellbeing. Here you will find here recordings of past webinars and details of upcoming events.
A focus on clinical leadership to ensure psychological safety for doctors. With Adjunct Professor Leanne Rowe
Wed 14 October 2026
Work-related burnout, psychological injury, and suicidality have remained deeply entrenched in medicine and across the health system for decades.
Drawing on extensive experience as both a clinician and non-executive director, Adjunct Professor Leanne Rowe AM will explore practical solutions to these intractable problems by answering the question: “How can we create a psychologically safe healthcare culture so that clinicians can thrive?”
Psychological safety is fundamental to thriving workplaces where clinicians can speak up, challenge unsafe practices, ask for help, learn from mistakes, and contribute fully without fear of humiliation, retaliation or other adverse career consequences. It overlaps with new mandated workplace requirements to identify, assess and minimise psychosocial hazards and risks in health care.
What makes this conversation different is the opportunity created by recent ground-breaking work health and safety law reforms, including serious personal and organisational penalties for employer non-compliance – as well as vicarious liability for the adverse actions of others who perpetrate workplace abuses such as bullying, discrimination, racism, sexual harassment, or verbal and physical violence.
Whether you are a medical student or junior doctor, senior clinician, medical officer, employer, director, officer or other healthcare leader, this webinar will examine what you can do and advocate for now - including collectively pushing for stronger accountability from medical organisations and the health system, with psychological safety fully embedded rather than merely encouraged.
Professor Rowe will also draw on her recent work establishing the Safe Dr initiative which empowers clinicians to understand their new human rights at work.
Join us for the live webinar: Wednesday 14 October 2026, 7.00 pm AEDT. 1-hour CPD certificate.
Register here
When your patient is a doctor: A practical framework for caring for doctor-patients
Webinar recorded 19 August 2026
The webinar recording will be published soon.
Caring for a fellow doctor can present unique challenges. Questions about confidentiality, professional boundaries, assumptions and fear of regulation can make these consultations feel different and affect care for both the clinician and the patient. Doctors do not need different care. They need thoughtful, deliberate care that ensures they receive the same high-quality, holistic treatment as every other patient.
Join experience GP and leader in doctors' health, Dr Sarah Newman for this practical webinar. She will introduce the Ts and Ss Model, a simple framework for approaching doctor-patient consultations with greater confidence. Through a case study and discussion with experienced GPs, you'll explore common challenges and gain practical strategies that can be applied immediately in clinical practice.
Suitable for GPs and all health professionals who care for doctors as patients, including psychiatrists, other medical specialists, psychologists and allied health professionals.
Resource recommendations for treating doctor-patients
Caring for doctor patients. The Ts and Ss Model
Peer-reviewed Articles:
Hutton C, Kay M, Benson J, Prentice S, Barton C. A framework for treating doctor-patients. Aust J Gen Pract. 2026; 55(8):573-576. Available at:
https://www1.racgp.org.au/ajgp/2026/august/a-framework-for-treating-doctor-patients/
Hutton CJ, Kay M, Round P, Barton C. “Do they think I’m good enough?”: General practitioners’ experiences when treating doctor-patients. BMC Primary Care. 2024; 25:340. Available at:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11406865/
Kay M, Dawes V. Working together to ensure health care access for doctors. Med J Aust. 2019; 211(11):497-498.e1. Available at:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31742698/
Kay M, Mitchell G, Clavarino A. What doctors want? A consultation method when the patient is a doctor. Aust J Prim Health. 2010; 16(1):52-59. Available at:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21133299/
Not all wounds are visible: Understanding moral injury and PTSD in doctors
Webinar recorded 22 July 2026
Moral injury and PTSD can have a profound impact on doctors, yet they are often misunderstood and may be difficult to distinguish from burnout and other forms of distress.
The next Doctors' Health Alliance webinar, 'Not All Wounds Are Visible: Understanding Moral Injury and PTSD in Doctors', will explore these issues, including how they arise, their impact on doctors, and practical approaches to recognition, prevention and recovery.
Doctors' Health Alliance thanks Associate Professor Jill Benson AM and Dr Adelaide Boylan for an interesting and informative education event.
Watch the recording below
Please note: the recording includes the main presentation only. The live Q&A session was not recorded and the Slido interactive function is no longer active.
When Things Go Wrong: Navigating Adverse Events, Complaints and Notifications
Webinar recorded 20 May 2026
Complications, complaints and notifications can have a significant impact on doctors' wellbeing and professional lives.
In this webinar, Professor Helen Wilcox discusses practical approaches to navigating these challenges and supporting doctors when things go wrong.
This webinar forms part of the Doctors' Health and Wellbeing Education Series and addresses many themes from the recently released Doctors' Health and Wellbeing Curriculum. More webinars in the series will be released in coming months.
Doctors' Health Alliance thanks Professor Helen Wilcox, Dr Margaret Kay AM and Dr Kathryn Hutt for their contributions.
Watch the recording below
Please note: the recording includes the main presentation only. The live Q&A session was not recorded and the Slido interactive function is no longer active.