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Optimizing Your Mindset in Medicine, Step 7 - Overcoming Common Obstacles

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Skills - Part 4 Internalizing Lessons & Accountability

This post is part of the Faculty Coaching Skills Series, which explores how faculty can apply coaching approaches in medical...

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Faculty Coaching Skills - Part 3 Partnering to Define and Design Progress

This post is part of the Faculty Coaching Skills Series, which explores how faculty can apply coaching approaches in medical...

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Faculty Coaching Skills - Part 2 Deep Listening and Developing Awareness

This post is part of the Faculty Coaching Skills Series, which explores how faculty can apply coaching approaches in medical...

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Faculty Coaching Skills - Part 1 Creating a Safe Space

This post is part of the Faculty Coaching Skills Series, which explores how faculty can apply coaching approaches in medical...

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Faculty Coaching Approach to 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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