This week, we’re adding the final touches to your action plan for transitioning into your ideal practice of medicine. So far, we’ve:

- Explored perspectives on the future of medicine

- Defined goals and visions for your practice

- Addressed mindset obstacles, including limiting beliefs              

- Transformed challenges into strategies   

- Prioritized and calendared your plan

Now, it’s time to move into implementation and tackle the inevitable obstacles that will arise.

How ...

This month, we are continuing to walk through the basics to move toward your ideal practice of medicine. Last month, I walked you through the steps to envision what you want. Last week, we learned the step of changing obstacles into strategies. This week, we are moving forward with prioritizing, timelining, and calendaring.

Refer to your work from last week.

You likely have several steps for each category: logistical, skill gaps, and connection barriers.

Prioritizing.

Think through ...

We are continuing our series involving your ideal future in medicine. For those of you out there saying, “Enough with the dreaming and mindset stuff; I want to take action,” this is your month!

If you haven’t already, write your goals and the vision behind them. You can use the steps I gave three weeks ago.

Now, I’m going to encourage something contrary to my typical suggestions. I want you to let your mind go wild with the impossibilities and roadblocks you’re likely to encounter, preve...

We are rounding out the first portion of how to foster your ideal future in medicine. So far, we have covered the larger state of medicine and what’s possible, enlarging your vision, and addressing fear and the inner critic. This week, we will last the mindset aspect which can hold us back from enjoying the most fulfilling careers we can create within the existing system – our limiting beliefs.

What are limiting beliefs? They are essentially assumed constraints. Beliefs and assumptions affec...

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 individual physician to foster your ideal practice.  I will walk you through a few activities over the next couple of weeks for you to develop your plan.

Purpose Reflection. It will be helpful for you to dig out your purpose in your career statement. If you haven’t written one in a while, you can review how to do that here.  Take a minute to reflect on it.

Priming...

Periodically, I interview a physician that will give you tips to enjoy medicine, find fulfillment, relieve stress, and more. Today, seemed like the perfect day to host Nneka Unachukwu, MD, better known as Dr. Una. since we have just concluded the series of creating your ideal future. She combined her vision and belief of what's possible with consistent effort, education, and pivoting to create a successful pediatric practice and a business school for physicians. She also knows a ton. Join us in ...