Most of us are familiar with mentoring from our own training experiences. Through medical school, residency, fellowship, and even in practice, many of
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Reflecting on Suicide Prevention Month
Like many of us, I have been directly impacted by physician suicide. In just the last three weeks, two physicians have died by suicide in my
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Start Having Difficult Conversations About Physician Suicide
Today, September 17th, is National Physician Suicide Prevention Day and September is National Suicide Prevention Month. While many of us tend to avoid
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How Peer Support Helps Physicians Experiencing Second Victim Syndrome
Wow... The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted everyone, especially those of us in healthcare. Our way of practicing medicine has been changed - some would
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Coaching Skills Create Stronger Patient Connections
Due to Covid-19, we’re all learning new ways of doing things. For many physicians, that has meant diving head first into telehealth. But navigating
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Redefining Physician Resilience
A recent study published in JAMA found that the physician population has higher resilience than the general population. We generally attribute a lack
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See One, Do One, Coach One. A Powerful Self-Improvement Cycle
Reading an article in JACS recently got me thinking about how we improve all of our skills without the help of a teacher or mentor. Over the last 10
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Why Coaching is the Ultimate Productivity Guru
Don’t listen to so-called productivity gurus. You know, the ones who speak in absolutes and tell us if we get up at 6:00 am and follow their morning
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How I Found the Missing Element
For the first couple months after reading Better, the word COACHING continually popped up around me. It piqued my curiosity, and I started thinking
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