The Joy in Family Medicine Blog

Aspirations for an Ideal Future in Medicine: Mindset Challenges aspirations fear of failure ideal future inner critic mindset

This week we continue the series on fostering an ideal future in medicine. In the first week, we looked at the larger state o...

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Aspirations for an Ideal Future in Medicine: Your Ideal Practice aspiration ideal future ideal practice

We spent a moment last week dreaming about a positive future for medicine. Today, I want to hone the focus down to you as the...

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Aspirations for an Ideal Future in Medicine: The Big Picture aspirations future of medicine hope ideal future

I’d love to use this month to spur you to dream again. Not like seeing the back of your eyelids, sawing the ZZZ’s dreaming (t...

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Optimizing Your Mindset in Medicine, Step 7 - Overcoming Common Obstacles emotion mindset in medicine patience self-compassion

This week we conclude the guide to optimizing our mindsets as physicians by discussing three common roadblocks and how to wor...

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Optimizing Your Mindset in Medicine, Step 6 - Crucial Caveats agency caveats mindset in medicine toxic positivity

Over the next two weeks, we will close out the details of optimizing your mindset as a physician. This week, we will unpack t...

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Optimizing Your Mindset in Medicine, Step 5 - Helpful Tips helpful tips imagination mindset in medicine skill stages

Over the past month, we went through some foundational steps to optimize your experience even when you couldn’t control the s...

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Optimizing Your Mindset in Medicine, Step 4 - Intentional Thinking intentional thoughts mindset in medicine thought model

Last week, I introduced a framework called the Thought Model for those of us not trained as behavioral scientists. In it, we ...

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Optimizing Your Mindset in Medicine, Step 3 - Thought Framework awareness mindset thought model

Over the last two weeks, I’ve laid out two fundamental steps to optimize your frame of mind. If you do nothing else, that alo...

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Optimizing Your Mindsets in Medicine, Step 2 - Fact vs Story fact & story mindset thoughts

Your mind is a powerful tool for improving your day-to-day experience of your given situation. Last week, we discussed the fi...

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Optimizing Your Mindset in Medicine, Step 1 - Awareness mindset thoughts

It's been a while since I walked through some step-by-step methods of up-leveling our mindsets, so now seems like a great tim...

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Faculty Coaching Skills - Part 4 accountability coach skills coaching approach core faculty internalizing the learning

As we conclude our blog mini-series on faculty using coaching skills, we arrive at the pivotal task of assisting in internali...

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Faculty Coaching Skills - Part 3 coach approach coach skill faculty partner for progress

We are in our blog mini-series of faculty using coaching skills.  A couple of weeks ago, we walked through an overview of and...

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