We are continuing our blog series, Careers in Family Medicine. Each week over the next 3-4 months, I will highlight a family physician and their career path. Each one will share their pearls. So far, we have highlighted examples of Rural Practice, Value Based Care, and Academic Medicine. This week, we will focus on what it's like to travel the world to provide care to US Citizens with Dr. John Brewer, Regional Medical Officer, US Department of State.

John, give the readers an overview of you...

We are continuing our blog series, Careers in Family Medicine. Each week over the next 3-4 months, I will highlight a family physician and their career paths. Each one will share their pearls. So far, we have highlighted examples of Rural Practice and Value Based Care. This week, we will focus on Academic Medicine as learn from Dr. Grace Shih, Director of the Family Medicine Residency Network, and her career path.

Grace, please give the readers an overview of your career in family medicine.

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We are continuing our blog series, Careers in Family Medicine. Each week over the next 3-4 months, I will highlight a family physician and their career paths. Each one will share their pearls. Last week, we highlighted an example of Rural Practice. This week we will take a look at an expanding Value-Based Care (VBC) model by highlighting Dr. Erica Swegler, former AAFP Board Member. A VBC model is an Alternative Payment Method (APM, payment model) that can be delivered through various set-ups (de...

It's time to kick off my series on Careers in Family Medicine. 🎉 Each week over the next 3-4 months, I will highlight a family physician and their career paths. Each one will share their pearls. I hope you find this series helpful in expanding what's possible for you as a family physician and in giving you tangible aspects to consider when choosing your career path or pivoting. Dr. Murray Buttner has had a long career of experiences, so I felt he would make a wonderful example to begin our serie...

I’m excited to offer a blog series on Careers in Family Medicine. As I recently reflected on my career path and turns, I noted many truly amazing family physicians I know and how their career paths developed. Because I work with a number of residents considering how to use their skills in sustainable and meaningful ways, I thought it would be nice to highlight a few of the many career options open to family physicians.

Over the next three to four months, I will highlight physicians in rural ...

Take a listen as Dr Michelle Chestovich and I discuss coaching and medical training. 

Periodically, I interview a physician that will give you tips to enjoy medicine, find fulfillment, relieve stress, and more. (I'm never an affiliate for them. I'm always just a fan). Today, seemed like the perfect day to host Dr Ali Novitsky who is dedicated to helping physicians transform their minds and bodies while we are in the Meaningful Change blog series. Specifically, the last 2 weeks, we looked at exercise and movement which was identified as the top area within individual physicians' c...

Since we are covering Meaningful Change which highlighted exercise last week, I thought I should revive this Self-Care Revisited, Physical Movement and Exercise portion of the Self-Care Series from 2021. 

There are many benefits of just moving, not being sedentary, including improving postural autonomic health (goodbye dizziness when standing) and decreasing overall cardiovascular events and all-cause mortality.  It's more important to be moving with the aim of 10,000 steps a day than to hav...

Last week, I wrote how physical exercise was the top area faculty and residents alike identified that, if changed, could make the most improvement in their well-being and joy. And so this week, I wanted to walk you through a framework that can be easily applied to lifestyle changes of many kinds, including exercise - workshop style! As a review – there are some key concepts I’ve written about previously regarding movement and exercise, so if this is important to you right now – review those.

I’ve had the privilege recently of partnering with six family medicine residency programs for my CHARM Well-Being Leaders Certificate Course project. CHARM is the Collaborative for Healing and Renewal in Medicine, an international group of medical educators, academic medical center leaders, experts in burnout research and interventions, and trainees, all working to promote trainee well-being. It is hosted by Mount Sinai and led by recognizable names such as Dr. Saadia Akhtar, Dr. Jonathan Ripp, ...