Leadership
Health Care Teams with Grit
Talk by Thomas H. Lee
Four key elements that characterize gritty individuals, gritty teams, and gritty organizations.
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Physician Burnout
More than half of physicians display signs of burnout. What are the causes of physician burnout, and what are some solutions that can be implemented at both the individual and system level?
Leadership
Esprit de Corps: Turning Vicious Cycle Virtuous
Talk by Stephen Swensen
Esprit de corps is the single most important indicator in which health care organizations have control over patient experience, outcomes, safety, and cost. How to get there? By co-creating quality.
Leadership
NEJM Catalyst Roundtable Report: Seeking Solutions to Physician Burnout
Roundtable by Paul DeChant, Christina Maslach, Tait Shanafelt, Karen Weiner, Namita Seth Mohta & Edward Prewitt
An NEJM Catalyst roundtable sponsored by IBM Watson Health brought together four experts, all deeply engaged in reducing physician burnout from different perspectives, to share in a robust discussion.
Leadership
Combating Clinician Burnout with Community-Building
Article by Nicolas S. Nguyen, Elizabeth L. Métraux & Andrew F. Morris-Singer
Improving morale and reducing turnover with peer-support meetings and shared group email lists for clinicians.
Leadership
To Fight Burnout, Organize
Article by Leo Eisenstein
The social determinants of health — and physicians’ sense of powerlessness in the face of them — seem crucially missing from the discussion of burnout.
Leadership
Applying Community Organizing Principles to Restore Joy in Work
Article by Jessica Perlo & Derek Feeley
IHI offers four lessons on how to nurture joy in the health care workforce.
Leadership
Physician Resiliency and Wellness for Transforming a Health System
Article by Carl S. Armato & Tom E. Jenike
Novant Health is helping physicians find meaning and thrive again through a novel program that builds self-awareness, teaches coping skills, and increases their engagement, resulting in greater fulfillment in their personal and professional lives.
Leadership
Survey Snapshot: Admitting We Can’t Do This — Interventions and Tools to Reduce Clinician Burnout
Insights Report by Sandra Gittlen
The very things that motivate physicians — autonomy, mastery, and purpose — are being chipped away in the new world of medicine.
Leadership
Leadership Survey: Immunization Against Burnout
Insights Report by Stephen Swensen, Steven Strongwater & Namita Seth Mohta
Clinician burnout is far from being eliminated at health care organizations, but leaders, frontline physicians, and nurses are joining forces to get to the roots of the crisis.
Leadership
Beyond Burnout — Redesigning Care to Restore Meaning and Sanity for Physicians
Article by Alexi A. Wright & Ingrid T. Katz
There’s a growing recognition that organizations need to redesign the way that clinical care is delivered to address the national physician burnout epidemic. Measuring rates of physician burnout is the first step.
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