Posts Tagged ‘Work/Life Balance’
5 Tips for Choosing a Physician Specialty
Choosing a medical specialty is a crucial step in navigating your career as an attending physician, so it’s important to consider various factors to ensure a balanced lifestyle and fulfilling professional career. Here are 5 tips for choosing your medical specialty.
Read moreAvoiding Burnout as a Clinician
Burnout is a long-term stress that builds, emotionally depleting seasoned clinicians and making it difficult, or even impossible, for them to provide the quality of care they want to provide. Here are a few strategies for avoiding burnout for clinicians.
Read moreHealthy Habits for Physicians and Residents to Avoid Burnout
Over half of U.S. physicians and residents suffer from burnout. Danielle Kelvas, MD, offers tips on how to recognize and prevent burnout by prioritizing self-care, setting healthy boundaries, and staying connected with colleagues.
Read moreThe Cons of Consistency in Scheduling in Medicine: Why You Might Miss Shift Work
Shift work as a physician can be rather draining, but a consistent routine comes with its own drawbacks you might not expect. From feeling trapped on weekends to missing the diversity of your inconsistent work schedule, learn what you need to know before making the switch.
Read moreSetting Professional Goals for 2023
The new year is a great time to set professional goals, but it’s important to plan with purpose if you intend to make any meaningful progress. By reflecting on the past year’s successes and failures and setting SMART goals, you can make sure your objectives for 2023 don’t go the way of most New Year’s Resolutions.
Read morePhysician Work/Life Balance: Are You Cheating on Your Family With Your Job?
Setting a perfect work/life balance is impossible. Something has to give, and you will either be cheating your family or your job; being a doctor includes defending yourself, and standing up for your time. In this article Dr. Danielle Kelvas offers a few best-practice tips for stealing back your time.
Read moreAchieving Work/Life Synergy in Healthcare
Work and time away from work are all really just a part of life. Making the distinction between a work/life balance can be troublesome in that regard, but physician assistant Jacob Bollinger instead suggests we try reframing it as work/life synergy and find ways to make our work lives and home lives support one another.
Read moreWork-Life Balance as a Physician Assistant: Is it Possible?
Provider health is integral to patient health, so it is important that physician assistants maintain a healthy work/life balance. While everyone has their own way of finding balance, here are a few time-tested methods for managing your life and workload.
Read moreHow Healthcare Employers are Implementing Wellness Principles into the Workplace
Caring for your body and mind is extremely important in medicine. While culturally, there is still not yet a strong emphasis on well-being in the medical community, these concepts are being adopted with increasing priority within some medical systems and hospitals. Here are a few examples of how some employers are implementing these wellness programs for burnout prevention and employee satisfaction.
Read moreReduce Workplace Stress and Thrive
It is common knowledge that stress decreases worker productivity and impairs employee happiness, but the long-term effects are much worse. This is why it is important to take charge of your relationship with work and manage it in a healthy way to prosper in both personal and professional life. Here are a few tips on workplace stress reduction.
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