OVERVIEW

Combat Physician Burnout: Physician Coaching as an Effective Lifelong Tool (ETHICS) & Why Test the Brain? is organized by Texas Osteopathic Medical Association (TOMA).

Description:
Our medical culture emphasizes perfectionism, denial of personal vulnerability, and delayed gratification. Changes in the healthcare environment have created growing external pressures.

Approximately 50% of all medical students, residents, and physicians experience burnout; increasing medical errors and negatively impacting quality of care and professionalism. Burnout increases risk of depression, anxiety, substance abuse and suicidal ideation. According to the 2022 Medscape National Physician Burnout & Suicide Report, an average 10% of physicians have had thoughts of suicide.

Professional coaching, long utilized in the business world, provides a results-oriented and stigma-free method to address burnout, primarily by increasing one's internal locus of control. Coaching enhances self-awareness, drawing on individual strengths, questioning self-defeating thoughts and beliefs, examining new perspectives, and aligning personal values with professional duties. Coaching utilizes established techniques to increase one's sense of accomplishment, purpose, and engagement - critical to transforming burnout.

Objectives:

Recognize the signs of burnout in yourself and colleagues and identify tools to support you in work-life integration
Learn what physician coaching is and the data supporting its use in decreased burnout, increased retention, and increased engagement
Recognize how physician coaching is a tool available for lifelong use at work and at home to help you self-regulate, have more self-compassion, and see the many choices before you

Why Test the Brain?
Cognitive impairment can be caused by many things. Early detection of changes can be vital when it comes to reversal of cognitive impairment or treatment. People of all ages can be testes, as age is not the only cause of impairment.

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