resiliency

Image Credit: Common Sense Author: Nick Pettit, DO PhDOriginally published: Common Sense January/February 2019 Very few jobs, let alone, medical specialties have the potential to encounter death on a daily basis. With this comes responsibility, honor, reward, pride, but also despair, death, and failure. Politics and biases aside, as clinicians, it is engrained early in […]

In this episode, Puja Gopal, MD, and Christopher I. Doty, MD FAAEM, discuss resiliency in emergency medicine. Dr. Gopal is a resident at University of Illinois at Chicago and former RSA Education Committee Chair. Dr. Doty is Professor of Emergency Medicine at University of Kentucky, member of the AAEM Scientific Planning Committee, and CORD President.

2017 Wellness and Resiliency Summit Authors: Ashely Alker, MD, AAEM/RSA President 2017-18 and Robert Lam, MD FAAEM, AAEM Wellness Committee ChairOriginally published: Common Sense May/June 2017 Emergency medicine has historically had the highest rate of reported burnout among all specialties. In the 2017 Medscape Lifestyle Survey, 59% of emergency physicians self-identified as “burned out.” A […]