AMA STEPS Forward® podcast

Dr. Laura Vater, gastrointestinal oncologist at the Indiana University Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center and Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine, shares strategies for promoting wellness for medical students and residents. She also shares her own burnout story and offers key strategies to promote well-being for all clinicians regardless of where they are at in their practice.  Explore the Wellness-Centered Leadership Playbook: https://bit.ly/4cRjJM2Explore the Medical Student Well-Being Toolkit: https://bit.ly/3YhYkoVExplore the SMILE Scale: https://bit.ly/3ND1n5T

This episode (originally aired October 4, 2023) is now available for CME credit! Copy/paste this link into your browser to earn CME for listening: https://bit.ly/47scxCk Guest Dr. Dan Alford, Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean of Continuing Medical Education at Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine joins host Dr. Jill Jin, AMA Senior Physician Advisor, to discuss the essentials of good pain care and shares strategies for mitigating risk and applying a team-based care and a patient-centered approach when treating acute and chronic pain. Explore the AMA Ed Hub Substance Use Disorders and Addiction Education course page: https://bit.ly/3F1DYa4 

Dr. Jill Jin and Dr. Marie Brown discuss how to save time and improve medication adherence with 90x4 annual prescription renewals. They share strategies for successful implementation and counter even the most skeptical physician’s reservations. MOC Part IV: https://bit.ly/47zFE73 Explore the AMA STEPS Forward® Annual Prescription Renewal toolkit: https://bit.ly/3mKY6rs Debunking Regulatory Myths Series: https://bit.ly/3MIIVsx 

Dr. Topher Sharp, internist and Chief Medical Information Officer at Stanford Medicine, joins host Dr. Jill Jin to discuss how Stanford Medicine created a personalized EHR coaching approach using audit log data. Get the EHR Inbox Reduction Checklist: https://bit.ly/3Ew1gEO Explore the EHR Inbox Management toolkit: https://bit.ly/3PbkAxN Explore the Taming the EHR Playbook: https://bit.ly/3CsIqNK 

Dr. Mark Greenawald, Vice Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Carilion Clinic and Professor at the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine, shares strategies for how to be employed “well” by optimizing your professional satisfaction.  Read Dr. Greenawald’s article: https://bit.ly/3MUHfvY  Explore the Wellness Centered Leadership Playbook: https://bit.ly/4cRjJM2  Explore the What to Look for in Your First or Next Practice Toolkit: https://bit.ly/4gwjJTu  

Dr. Hani Chaabo, Medical Director of Well-Being at Ridgecrest Regional Hospital, joins guest host Dr. Sea Chen to discuss the Well-Being 2.0 framework, a roadmap for restoring joy in medicine. His also shares the importance of assessment and how to make the well-being case to leadership.   Learn more about the Joy in Medicine™ Recognition Program: https://bit.ly/4grBN0Q  Learn more about the Organizational Biopsy®: https://bit.ly/3UG87Bg  Calculate the cost of physician burnout in your organization: https://bit.ly/3TJbd9VExplore the Wellness-Centered Leadership Playbook: https://bit.ly/4cRjJM2

Dr. Jerry Abraham, Kedren Health, shares his experience participating in the Medical Justice in Advocacy Fellowship, an education initiative from the AMA and the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine. He also discusses how he’s been able to connect the dots between climate change and health equity in his day-to-day work as a physician, both in the office and in street medicine. Explore the Social Determinants of Health Toolkit: https://bit.ly/3vpunZb Explore the Racial and Health Equity: Concrete STEPS for Health Systems Toolkit: https://bit.ly/3S6LeIX Explore the Racial and Health Equity: Concrete STEPS for Smaller Practices Toolkit: https://bit.ly/3TIEe6u 

Drs. Tyra Fainstad and Adrienne Mann, University of Colorado Medicine, join host Dr. Jill Jin to discuss Better Together: a four-month, fully virtual group coaching program for physicians, trainees, and APPs. They explore the program’s coaching methods, as well as its positive impacts on reducing burnout and imposter syndrome, as illustrated by their randomized clinical trial results. Learn more about Better Together Physician Coaching here: https://bit.ly/3velgu1 Read Effect of a Novel Online Group-Coaching Program to Reduce Burnout in Female Resident Physicians: https://bit.ly/3tzj6EV Read Online Well-Being Group Coaching Program for Women Physician Trainees: https://bit.ly/3NwdHp5 Read Impact of an Online Group Coaching Program for Medical Trainees: a Qualitative Analysis: https://bit.ly/3tIZgY8 Read Better Together: A Novel Online Physician Group Coaching Program to Reduce Burnout in Trainees: A Longitudinal Analysis: https://bit.ly/47wgbuU 

Dr. Mickey Trockel, Psychiatrist and Director of Evidence-Based Innovation for the Stanford University School of Medicine WellMD Center, shares findings from a recent study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings on the impact of work on personal relationships and physician well-being.    Read Dr. Trockel’s article here: https://mayocl.in/47lXLOY  Explore the Wellness-Centered Leadership Playbook: https://bit.ly/4cRjJM2  Explore the Get Rid of Stupid Stuff Toolkit: https://bit.ly/47yUN9p  Explore the A Systematic Approach to Reducing EHR Inbox Burden Toolkit: https://bit.ly/3PbkAxN  Explore the Reducing Regulatory Burden Playbook: https://bit.ly/3X45D2S

Dr. Jeannine Engel, internal medicine physician and Associate Professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, describes the most recent billing and coding documentation guidelines and offers solutions to reduce note bloat and other documentation inefficiencies. Explore the Simplified Outpatient Documentation and Coding toolkit: https://bit.ly/3P3cczn