A double-edged sword: What makes doctors great also drives burnout
A physician burnout expert from the Mayo Clinic explained earlier this month at the 2016 AMA Annual Meeting how physicians in the current health care system often have an intrinsic risk of burnout. Learn about the role that the “physician personality” can play in burnout and ways Mayo has found to help address burnout as a system issue.
What’s happening to physicians?
“If I told you we had a system issue that affected quality of care, limited access to care, and eroded patient satisfaction, that affected up to half of patient encounters,” said Tait Shanafelt, MD, a hematologist and physician burnout researche...
Source: AMA Wire - June 22, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
40 years of shaping medical education
In 1976, the average cost of a new home was $43,400, Apple Computer Inc. was established, and an important group in medical education was just getting started.
A notable history
The AMA Academic Physicians Section (APS) is celebrating its 40th anniversary this month, and physicians who were a part of the group in its early years can tell of its strong history in shaping medical education and the practice of medicine.
From its beginning as the AMA Section on Medical Schools, this group of physician educators had high aspirations.
Within a few years of its founding, the section had played an important role in contrib...
Source: AMA Wire - June 20, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Amy Farouk Source Type: news
Christy Hawkins Elected to Arkansas Association for Medical Staff Services (Movers & Shakers)
Christy Hawkins, medical staff coordinator at North Arkansas Regional Medical Center at Harrison, has been elected to serve on the Arkansas Association for Medical Staff Services board of directors for the 2016-18 term. Hawkins will serve as the northwest district representative on the board.
Dr. Roy Allen Lee, medical director of NARMC's Mediquick, has recently received a Physician’s Recognition Award from the American Medical Association. The award is given to physicians who demonstrate a commitment to staying up to date on current medical advancements by participating in certified continuing medical education acti...
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - June 20, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Protecting health care workers from workplace violence
A new report by the AMA Council on Science and Public Health responds to increasingly common violence directed at physicians and other health care professionals where they work, looking at the trends in violence, solutions that have been tested and barriers to addressing the problem. The AMA adopted policy to help prevent violent acts in the health care setting.
An unacceptable hazard of the job
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that workplace assaults from 2011 to 2013 were 23,540-5,630 annually, with upwards of 70 percent occurring in health care and social service settings. Health care workers are three to...
Source: AMA Wire - June 14, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Amy Farouk Source Type: news
APSHO Presents Regional Lecture Series
The Advanced Practitioners Society for Hematology and Oncology (APSHO) is pleased to announce a series of live continuing medical education (CME) meetings. This accredited meeting series titled,...(PRWeb June 13, 2016)Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/06/prweb13465787.htm (Source: PRWeb: Medical Pharmaceuticals)
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AMA Minority Affairs Section: 2016 AMA Annual Meeting
The AMA Minority Affairs Section (MAS) held its business meeting on Friday evening, June 10. The keynote speaker, Ronald Wyatt, MD, MHA, the patient safety officer for The Joint Commission, discussed health disparities, health equity, and physicians’ unconscious bias. The meeting also featured an open forum on AMA House of Delegates reports and resolutions that impact minority physicians and patients.
The business meeting also included an awards presentation honoring 21 medical students who received the 2016 Minority Scholars Awards. Award recipients won $10,000 scholarships from the AMA Foundation. The scholarships ...
Source: AMA Wire - June 12, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
AMA Academic Physicians Section: 2016 AMA Annual Meeting highlights
AMA policy review, educational sessions and networking opportunities with academic physician colleagues were part of the historic 40th anniversary meeting of the AMA Academic Physicians Section (APS), June 10-11 in Chicago.
Meeting participants—comprising deans and faculty from a wide range of medical schools, graduate medical education programs, and academic health systems nationwide—voiced their opinions and reached decisions on recommendations for several reports and resolutions to be acted upon by delegates at the Annual Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates, June 10-15. Their work guides the section delegate and...
Source: AMA Wire - June 12, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
Entire state gets one naloxone prescription
There are many steps that need to be taken to end an epidemic—including policy, medication, coverage and treatment expansion—and require physicians to take the lead in fighting for their patients. Leaders in Pennsylvania are on a mission to provide that help to both the people who are suffering in the opioid epidemics and the physicians who treat them.
A standing order for naloxone
Through a multiagency effort, Pennsylvania’s physician general Rachel Levine, MD, in October signed a statewide prescription for naloxone, making this lifesaving overdose reversal drug available to the entire population.
“As we wer...
Source: AMA Wire - May 27, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
Burnout driving physicians to cut down work hours
A new study found that high levels of burnout and low professional satisfaction scores predict a reduction in work levels. Learn more about which physicians are reducing their work hours and what is being done to improve professional satisfaction.
Who is increasingly cutting hours
Full-time physicians who report worsening burnout or show declining job satisfaction are more likely to reduce the hours they work, according to study published in April’s Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
More than 1,800 Mayo Clinic physicians responded to a 2011 survey. For each one-point increase a physician had on a seven-point emotional ex...
Source: AMA Wire - May 6, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
Burnout tied to fewer physician work hours
A new study found that high levels of burnout and low professional satisfaction scores predict an increased risk of future reduction in work levels. Learn more about which physicians are reducing their work hours and what is being done to improve professional satisfaction.
Who is increasingly cutting hours
Full-time physicians who report worsening burnout or show declining job satisfaction are more likely to reduce the hours they work, according to study published in April’s Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
More than 1,800 Mayo Clinic physicians responded to a 2011 survey. For each one-point increase a physician had on a s...
Source: AMA Wire - May 6, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
Report on the 17th Chinese Course on Medical Mycology
The 17th Chinese National Continuing Medical Education Course on Medical Mycology was successfully held on March 17- 22, 2016 in Chengdu, China.
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Continuing Medical Education for General PractitionersContinuing Medical Education for General Practitioners
The authors describe the components of a quality continuing medical education program and offer recommendations for the development of CME for general practitioners. Postgraduate Medical Journal (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
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Physician satisfaction: Why leadership qualities matter
Physician leaders have a significant impact on the well-being and satisfaction of the physicians they supervise, according to a new study. Learn which leadership qualities are essential to promote healthy professional environments that reduce the likelihood of physician burnout.
Effective leaders increase physician well-being
Physician leaders who inform, engage, inspire, develop and recognize the physicians they supervise are more likely to have employees who feel professionally satisfied and less likely to show signs of burnout, a study published in the April issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings found.
Study authors a...
Source: AMA Wire - April 26, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
Attend the 2016 AMA-SPS Annual Meeting June 11
Members of the AMA Senior Physicians Section (SPS) are invited to attend the 2016 AMA-SPS Annual Meeting June 11 at the Hyatt Regency Chicago. Those present may introduce new items of business related to the section’s mission and review items in the House of Delegates Handbook related to senior physician issues.
The assembly meeting is scheduled from 11:30 a.m. to noon June 11 in Columbus K/L (East Tower, Gold Level). Come enjoy the fellowship of your senior physician colleagues. A luncheon will be served at 11:30 a.m. on a first-come, first-served basis. If you have questions about the meeting, please contact Alice Re...
Source: AMA Wire - April 7, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
3 simple steps to address prediabetes in your practice
Today is Diabetes Alert Day, and many of your patients will be encouraged over social media to take an online prediabetes test. Make sure you know the signs of this disease and the three steps you should take to prevent or treat it.
About 86 million Americans have prediabetes and don’t know it. That’s why the AMA has partnered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the American Diabetes Association (ADA) and the Ad Council in a highly visible public service ad campaign that clearly delivers an important message: Everyone needs to know whether they have prediabetes or not.
The campaign got underw...
Source: AMA Wire - March 22, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Troy Parks Source Type: news
