Activity ID
2949Expires
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.
Psychologist and Coach Alan Morse focuses on assessing and addressing physicians’ problems from individual, team, and organizational perspectives. He suggests that the same analytical skills that physicians utilize to assess patients’ conditions may be applied to one’s self and one’s practice. Understanding organizational culture is a must, and solutions should be viewed through the lens of the team. Hierarchical differences between team members take a back seat to the good of the patients and the harmonious functioning of the team, and these typically align. Sticking points may necessitate that leaders weigh in on potential solutions, as well as modification of policies. Dr. Curious is somewhat skeptical about her ability to implement this approach in her particular practice situation, which is busy and seems hopelessly hierarchical at times. However, she is willing to start addressing her day-to-day frustrations more openly and seems to be gaining comfort with a more active and assertive problem-solving stance. She is encouraged to stay the course in solving problems at the practice level and is beginning to integrate the perspective of organizational management with her own.
ABMS Member Board Approvals by Type
ABMS Lifelong Learning CME Activity
Allergy and Immunology
Anesthesiology
Family Medicine
Medical Genetics and Genomics
Nuclear Medicine
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Plastic Surgery
Preventive Medicine
Psychiatry and Neurology
Radiology
Thoracic Surgery
Urology
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
Appreciate that individual physicians all function as members of multiple teams, and that many workplace concerns stem from skill deficits at the team behavior and organizational behavior levels.
Recognize that the analytical skills that one uses to solve patient problems may be utilized to address difficulties at the level of the team, and begin to address interpersonal and team challenges with this awareness and understanding
Keywords
Physician Wellness, Self Care, Culture of Wellness
Competencies
Interpersonal & Communication Skills, 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, Rural, Urban, VA/Military
