Academic and Research Skills
Career Development
Leadership and Business Training
Wellness and Well-being
Christine SanGiovanni, MD, MSCR, DABOM (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor
Medical University of South Carolina
Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, United States
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Deborah Rana, MD, MS (she/her/hers)
HS Associate Clinical Profesor
University of California San Diego
La Jolla, California, United States
Praveen Kumar, MBBS, DCH, MD
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
University of Illinois College of Medicine
PEORIA, Illinois, United States
Heidi Kloster, MD (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
McFarland, Wisconsin, 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
Session
Description: Finding the Joy in Academic Medicine During this combined Faculty Development and Wellbeing and Vitality SIG meeting, we will help participants find joy and meaning in medicine through various exercises and introduction to skills that will help improve the work climate at attendees’ institutions. We will examine the virtue of joy and discuss in dyads ways we experience joy in our workday and at home and share literature on factors which foster joy in medicine. We will then share tools, (savoring and gratitude, Institute for Healthcare Improvement Framework for Improving Joy at Work) which will be applied to improving joy at work. Next, we will explore finding meaning in work, a key factor in maintaining resilience in the healthcare field. We will practice ‘Appreciative Inquiry’ to deepen the engagement of learners and fellow faculty. We will also share best practices for relationship building implemented in existing peer mentoring and coaching programs for relationship building.
Additionally, we will define work culture and climate, and describe existing knowledge on how these factors influence the well-being of health professionals. We will then explore the role of leaders in promoting work climates which foster joy and mitigate burnout. Finally, we ask participants to work together to create an individual/team/department well-being plan from the perspective of the creating healthy work climates. The session will close with collaborating with others to use tools practiced at the workshop to bring change in workplace at attendees’ home institutions.
SIG Speaker: Christine SanGiovanni, MD, MSCR (she/her/hers) – Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine
SIG Speaker: Deborah T. Rana, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – University of California San Diego
SIG Speaker: Janet R. Serwint, MD (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
SIG Speaker: Elaine Schulte, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – The Children's Hospital at Montefiore
SIG Speaker: Praveen Kumar, MBBS, DCH, MD – University of Illinois College of Medicine
SIG Speaker: Kajal Khanna, MD, JD, MSc (she/her/hers) – Stanford University School of Medicine