Activity ID
2941Expires
January 24, 2025Format Type
InternetCME Credit
1.0Fee
$0CME Provider: Massachusetts Medical Society
Description of CME Course
MedPEP, the Medical Professionals Empowerment Program, is a Free podcast series jointly provided by Physician Health Services, Inc. (PHS) and the Massachusetts Medical Society. PHS is a charitable organization dedicated to improving the health, well-being and effectiveness of physicians and medical students.
Regulations, technology, organizational complexity, and the explosion of medical knowledge have created a perfect storm for most practicing health professionals. Physician burnout rates now exceed 50%. MedPEP’s star, Dr. Marie Curious, is a young, primary care internist who has started to fantasize about leaving the profession that she loves. On her MedPEP journey, Marie joins Dr. Les Schwab and a group of specialized physicians, coaches, and other experts, who offer a broad range of practical techniques to help her survive and thrive in today’s tough medical environment. The territory they cover includes nutrition, exercise, getting along with difficult colleagues, dealing with bureaucracy and bosses, multi-tasking, system improvement, meditation, and addiction. The MedPEP journey helps Marie, and other health professionals facing similar challenges, gain insight into practical methods for empowering themselves as well as their teams, employers, and the broken system.
Meet Les Schwab, MD, a professional coach, internist, and medical leader, and the host of MedPEP. He is joined by Marie Curious, MD, a young primary care internist who finds her growing clinic practice to be increasingly stressful and overwhelming. Les and Marie embark upon a journey to discover solutions to survive and thrive in today’s depleting medical environment. Marie’s longstanding aspirations to be a healer are now butting up against the harsh and inhuman bottom-line driven realities of medical practice. She hopes that her young daughter doesn’t become a doctor. Les describes the physician burnout epidemic that afflicts more than 50% of US physicians. Together, Dr. Schwab and Dr. Curious launch the first season of MedPEP – a series of frank conversations they conduct with a series of guest experts. Each MedPEP guest shares strategies, techniques, and resources to help Marie feel better and improve her ability to function effectively at the team, organizational, and system levels.
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Commercial Support?
NoNOTE: If a Member Board has not deemed this activity for MOC approval as an accredited CME activity, this activity may count toward an ABMS Member Board’s general CME requirement. Please refer directly to your Member Board’s MOC Part II Lifelong Learning and Self-Assessment Program Requirements.
Educational Objectives
Recognize the stressors in the current practice environment and identify how these environmental stressors impact the ideas and aspirations of clinicians.
Summarize the salient characteristics of the burnout epidemic and outline potential ways of assisting health professionals at the individual, team, organizational, and system levels.
Keywords
Professionalism, Physician Wellness, Physician Burnout
Competencies
Practice-based Learning & Improvement, Professionalism
CME Credit Type
AMA PRA Category 1 Credit
Physician Well-being activity
Personal Resilience, Organizational Culture of Wellness
Practice Setting
Inpatient, Outpatient, Physician Executives, Rural, Urban, VA/Military
