Performance Improvement Archives

02/22/2023 Jeffrey Smith, MD, FACS, PCC

Creative Outlets! – Life improvement strategies for the surgeon who wants more … in 10 minutes – Episode 97

Guest: Wendell "Cody" Cole MD Wendell is a current Orthopaedic Surgery chief resident at Tulane University SOM. He

01/26/2023 Jeffrey Smith, MD, FACS, PCC

Use Active Listening To Empower Others

As physicians, our lives are easier when we empower those around us. Patient care and leadership are two obvious examples of how empowerment can

05/27/2021 Jeffrey Smith, MD, FACS, PCC

Coaching Is a Prospective, Non-Randomized Path to Achievement

Surgeons and physicians face a unique set of challenges stemming from the system in which we operate, our surgical specialty, moral injury, and more.

05/12/2021 Ryan Will MD

Cultivate Your Purpose

Medicine is challenging. The required skill set is difficult to become competent in, let alone master. That is one of the reasons I was attracted to

05/10/2019 Jeffrey Smith, MD, FACS, PCC

Maintenance of Certification, Aging, & Our Patients

An article published in the Harvard Business Review set out to answer the question: “do doctors get worse as they get older?” With an aging population

03/21/2019 Jeffrey Smith, MD, FACS, PCC

How HPDE Helps Me Be a Better Surgeon

This guest blog was written by Dr. Lora Melman. My journey for continual learning started in medical school and pushed me through my surgical

01/11/2019 Jeffrey Smith, MD, FACS, PCC

The Hook Model and the Power of Coaching

Note: this is part 4 of our ongoing series on Habits & the Power of Coaching. Read part 1 here, part 2 here, and part 3 is here. In the fourth

10/26/2018 Jeffrey Smith, MD, FACS, PCC

Simple Tools to Attack Symptoms of Burnout

When most people go to the doctor, they have their own ailments on their mind and don’t necessarily think about how their physician is doing. However,

03/29/2018 Jeffrey Smith, MD, FACS, PCC

Help Us Help You! – Life improvement strategies for the surgeon who wants more … in 10 minutes – Episode 26

Pump the brakes on your week and take 10 minutes to make your life as a surgeon just a little better… This week on the Mini-Podcast Jeff talks about