Beyond Meditation and Mindfulness: Optimizing Career-Fit to Promote Professional Well-Being in Academic Pediatrics

Monday, May 1, 2023

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM ET

Location: Convention Center: 140 A

CE: Live CME: 1.50

Leader(s)

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Sylvia Lim, MD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Pediatrics/Associate Director of Academic General Pediatrics Fellowship
The Children's Hospital at Montefiore
Bronx, New York, United States

Co-Leader(s)

Samudragupta Bora, PhD (he/him/his)

Director, Early Childhood Neurodevelopmental Outcomes; Associate Professor, Pediatrics
UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Ariella Slovin, MD (she/her/hers)

Primary Care Attending, Associate Director Pediatrics Clerkship, GW SMHS
Children's National Medical Center
Washington DC, District of Columbia, United States
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Heidi Kloster, MD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
McFarland, Wisconsin, United States
Janet Serwint, MD (she/her/hers)

Professor Emerita of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Glen Arm, Maryland, United States
Elaine Schulte, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

Vice Chair, Academic Affairs and Faculty Development - Professor of Pediatrics
The Children's Hospital at Montefiore
Briarcliff Manor, New York, United States

Disclosure(s):

Sylvia W. Lim, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Samudragupta Bora, PhD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Ariella T. Slovin, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Heidi M. Kloster, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Janet R. Serwint, MD: Cameron Kravitt Foundation (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Consultant); HRSA (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Consultant); NICHD (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Consultant); Pediatrics in Review, AAP (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Board Member or Executive Role)

Elaine Schulte, MD, MPH: No financial relationships to disclose

Workshop

Description: Threats to professional well-being in academic medicine are a growing concern. Shanafelt et.al defined the term “Career-Fit” as an alignment of assigned professional activities with meaningful work. That research as well as the research done by the Academic Pediatric Association Well-Being and Resiliency Task Force in 2019 highlighted the importance of assigned time to meaningful work in the context of provider well-being.
We will begin the workshop by introducing the concept of Career-Fit and highlighting its importance as a framework for promoting well-being. Participants will then apply these concepts as they complete a “Career-Appraisal Worksheet” that calculates their Career-Fit Score, and reflect upon their own Career-Fit. We will then have our senior workshop leaders share their own processes of identifying and achieving their ideal Career-Fit. Next, workshop leaders will facilitate small-group discussions using motivational interviewing prompts to (1) further explore what constitutes meaningful work and participants’ ideal Career-Fit, and (2) discuss barriers and facilitators to achieving that ideal Career-Fit. We will then regroup to share ideas from small-group conversations and identify common themes as well as strategies to achieve better Career-Fit. The workshop will close with time for each participant to reflect and identify 3 next steps on their journey towards Career-Fit over the next 12 months. Lastly, we will discuss how participants can utilize this framework in their home institutions as well as share the effectiveness of strategies employed by participants after the conference.

Learning Objectives:

Understand the evolving concept of Career-Fit as an innovative framework to promote professional well-being and mitigate burnout among academic pediatrics faculty
Reflect on their current Career Fit and identify areas of “fit” and “misfit”
Identify 3 individual goals to maximize Career-Fit over the next 12 months