Physician and Practitioner Wellness Podcast
The WSMA and WSMA Foundation present a new wellness podcast for physicians, practitioners, and their health care organizations to find inspiration to take meaningful action that will reduce burnout and improve professional satisfaction using the latest research.
About the Podcast
This podcast started as recordings of the live webinar events of the Physician and Practitioner Wellness Webinar Series. The podcast is offered on demand without the time constraints of a live event. If your organization is looking to update or start wellness efforts, this podcast is a library of ideas on current practices from experts.
This podcast provides resources on topics such as creating a culture of wellness, creating effective teams, and drawing on evidence-based work on wellness. Podcast topics are identified as critical for physicians, practitioners, and their health care organizations to commit to prioritizing wellness and aligning their efforts to reduce burnout and improve professional satisfaction.
The podcast is free and open to all practitioner types.
The moderators
Each episode is moderated by a member of the WSMA and WSMA Foundation Wellness Committee.
CME
These activities are approved for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM.
To claim CME credit, learners must watch or listen to the podcast(s) and submit the evaluation for each episode.
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Objectives
- Update learners with current research around improving burnout rates in physicians and practitioners.
- Give strategies to improve wellness in organizations, teams, and individuals.
- Give strategies to improve patient satisfaction and fulfillment in practice.
Episodes
Episode 1: Community Well-Being: A Collective Voice for Change
Kurt O’Brien, MHROD, explores wellness as it applies to health care leaders, systems, and communities.
Episode 2: Wellness-Centered Leadership
Ashleigh Rodriguez, co-founder and head of innovation and strategy at Care4th, introduces and demonstrates “Wellness-Centered Leadership.”
Episode 3: Building a Business Case for Well-Being
James Murray, MD, chief medical officer at Confluence Health, and Makrina Shanbour, MD, director of provider experience at Confluence Health, discuss their collaborative approach to investing in and delivering a clinician wellness program at Confluence.
Episode 4: Use of Team-Based Care to Improve Clinician Professional Fulfillment
Carrie Horwitch, MD, vice president of the WSMA Foundation and member of the WSMA Wellness committee, explores the importance of interprofessional teams in ambulatory care.
Episode 5: Thriving in Medicine
Carrie Horwitch, MD, vice president of the WSMA Foundation board, and Alka Atal- Barrio, MD, national senior medical director of Optum Health and chair of the WSMA Wellness Committee, explore physician and practitioner engagement and retention issues, leadership development opportunities, professional fulfillment as a quality improvement tool, and present the WSMA Foundation Wellness Committee’s “Thriving in Medicine” document.
Episode 6: Fierce Self-Compassion and Boundaries
Nina Willow, MD, a seasoned family physician with 28 years of experience, defines self-compassion, explores the challenges of boundary setting, and provides strategies for practicing self-compassion and setting or adjusting boundaries effectively.
Episode 7: The Power of Our Mindset and Perspectives
Tamara Chang, MD, practicing board-certified pediatric oncologist, award-winning author, TEDx speaker, leadership coach, and Co-Founder of Pink Coat, MD, explores different types of perspectives and mindsets and their impact on outcomes.
Episode 8: Coaching Programs to Improve Wellness
Gregg Miller MD, chief medical officer at Vituity, focuses on applying a medical group’s best practices around wellness to your organization and developing tailored coaching programs for physicians and practitioners.
Episode 9: Stress Less: Tools for Clinician Well-Being and Compassion
Astrid Pujari, MD, medical director of the Center for Integrative Medicine at Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, presents on clinician well-being.
Episode 10: Advocacy as Wellness: Navigating the Path to Reform and Resilience
Stefanie Simmons, MD, chief medical officer at the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation and a board-certified emergency medicine physician, and Chris Bundy, MD, executive director of Washington Physician Health Program, discuss key advocacy efforts aimed at improving the wellbeing of health care professionals.
Episode 11: Efficiency as Wellness: How Smarter EHRs Strengthen Health Systems and Clinicians
Becket Mahnke, MD, chief health information officer at Confluence Health, shares lessons from leading EHR transformation efforts that measurably improved clinician efficiency and well-being.
Episode 12: Compassionate Care Starting with Ourselves: Cultivating Self-Compassion in Clinical Practice
Joe Sherman, MD discusses cultivating compassionate care within ourselves.
Episode 13: Trauma-Informed Care
PeaceHealth Nurse Educator Malena Munroe examines trauma- informed care through the lenses of toxic stress and protective factors, equity and justice, and resilience and restorative practices.