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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

After spending time noticing common thinking traps and default patterns, we have moved into the next step. Last week, we focu...

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

We’ve just spent time exploring common "thinking traps". Now let’s zoom out and look at a simple, step-by-step way to work mo...

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Faculty Coaching Approach to Individualized Learning Plans coaching approach faculty ilps individualized learning plans

As I end the physician coaching series to focus on faculty, I want to continue the conversation from last week about faculty ...

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What is Physician Coaching? Implimentations in GME academic coaching approaches gme physician coaching

As we close out the blog series What is Physician Coaching? I wanted to highlight the use of coaching in Graduated Medical Ed...

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What is Physician Coaching? Coach Training coach training physician coaching

We have been in a series looking at various aspects of physician coaching. We started with the definition and moved on to the...

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