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How Sleep Deprivation Affects Mental Health with Dr. Audrey Wells

Aug 9, 2022

Sleep deprivation is detrimental to physical health, mental health, and learning, but it’s harder to notice. It can affect your creativity and thinking skills. The best way to know if you are not getting enough sleep is to look at a time when you should have peak...

Running from burnout to wellness with mindset and margin with Dr. Alicia Shelly

Aug 2, 2022

Physicians are the first ones who care for other people’s health. However, they have difficulty taking care of themselves and their wellness. The medical profession is under immense pressure to perform more and more while sustaining the same level of...

How unanswered questions can shape your life and clinical practice with Dr. Evka Cesnek

Jul 26, 2022

Although medical experts want to provide the best advice possible, sometimes it can be difficult for patients to decode complicated medical content. You need an expert who will cut through the weeds and focus on bringing you up-to-date information that is...

Mindset, meditation, and mindfulness, a neurologist’s perspective on burnout with Dr. Puja Aggarwal

Jul 19, 2022

Most of us see burnout as a physical, emotional, and mental state that occurs when we feel depleted or overwhelmed, but it actually affects our brain. It has been shown that when we have chronic burnout, our hippocampus gets thinner, and the prefrontal cortex is...

Creating an ideal medical practice, reflections on boundaries, self-care, and growth with Dr. Emeka Obidi

Jul 12, 2022

There is no one perfect answer to what makes a great medical practice. Many different factors come into play when creating the ideal practice for yourself and your patients, but self-care is one of the key buzzwords that cannot be left out of the equation. ...

How money mindset and financial literacy advance physician wellness with Dr Elisa Chiang

Jul 5, 2022

As a physician, managing your finances can be surprisingly easy to do, but more often, finances tend to fall into the ‘important but not urgent category. For most of us, this means it’s something we don’t want to stress over too much, which makes it...

How process improvement in medicine is really about keeping a growth mindset

Jun 28, 2022

Quality improvement projects and process improvement initiatives are helpful in moving things forward in your clinical practice. Individually, it is about seeing where you are, implementing change, observing, adjusting, and trying again. There is always room for...

How batching improves efficiency in medicine

Jun 21, 2022

Batching is not just for cooking; you can also use it intentionally in medicine to improve your efficiency! Your wellness matters and you have to look at what you desire to accomplish and your priorities to achieve your goals. Whether you want to be home sooner,...

How delegation in medicine improves efficiency and wellness

Jun 14, 2022

Doing it all by yourself is holding yourself back from being efficient. To enhance your efficiency in your workflow, you need to think about what you can delegate, how to delegate, and why you want to delegate a task. Delegation is important, but also it calls...

How closed loop communication impacts efficiency and quality in medicine

Jun 7, 2022

Closed-loop communication matters in patient care, reducing errors and helping teamwork with communication and workflow, particularly in situations where there is increased variability. It ensures that the message is properly received by exposing deficiencies that we...