OVERVIEW

The Medical Professionals Empowerment Program (MedPEP) - Episode 1: MedPEP Season Premiere is organized by Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS)

Original Release Date: January 24, 2019
Termination Date: January 24, 2021

Accreditation:
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The Massachusetts Medical Society designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)
Physician Assistants may claim 1.00 Category 1 credits for completing this activity. NCCPA accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society.

Course Overview:
Meet Les Schwab, MD, a professional coach, internist, and medical leader, and the host of MedPEP. He is joined by Marie Curious, MD, a young primary care internist who finds her growing clinic practice to be increasingly stressful and overwhelming. Les and Marie embark upon a journey to discover solutions to survive and thrive in today’s depleting medical environment. Marie’s longstanding aspirations to be a healer are now butting up against the harsh and inhuman bottom-line driven realities of medical practice. She hopes that her young daughter doesn’t become a doctor. Les describes the physician burnout epidemic that afflicts more than 50% of US physicians. Together, Dr. Schwab and Dr. Curious launch the first season of MedPEP – a series of frank conversations they conduct with a series of guest experts. Each MedPEP guest shares strategies, techniques, and resources to help Marie feel better and improve her ability to function effectively at the team, organizational, and system levels.

Learning Objectives:
• Recognize the stressors in the current practice environment and identify how these environmental stressors impact the ideas and aspirations of clinicians.
• Summarize the salient characteristics of the burnout epidemic and outline potential ways of assisting health professionals at the individual, team, organizational, and system levels.