Main description:

With growing attention surrounding the importance of physician well-being, organizations are institutionalizing physician well-being efforts. Promoting well-being requires a understanding of the components, barriers and promoters of physician well-being, While other books exist in this space, many are focused on individual resilience-building strategies or are too broad to apply to specific groups of physicians, such as pediatricians. A critical gap in the existing literature is a book that uses an evidence-based model of well-being and applying this model to unique experience of pediatricians.

Rather than a work-centric approach, the physician well-being model we describe in this book takes a comprehensive approach to well-being, integrating evidence and expertise from a broad body of well-being research and translating this knowledge to the lives and work of pediatricians. Further, while other texts focus on negative consequences of a lack of well-being, such as burnout, this text is organized around defining, understanding and optimizing well-being. Each chapter will provide strategies for both individual pediatricians and healthcare organizations to consider to improve pediatrician well-being at their institution. This book integrates well-being science from disciplines outside of medicine, offering innovative strategies to addressing this important issue.

This is a book designed for pediatricians, health care leaders, and organizations looking to better understand and implement strategies for pediatrician well-being. The authors will take readers on a journey through the history of physician well-being leading to the current state of well-being in the context of modern medical practice, technology, society, policy and family life. Using an integrated model of physician well-being, readers will learn about the current state, solutions, tensions and future directions of physician well-being.

Contents:

Section 1: Introduction to Pediatrician Well-being

chapter 01: Physician well-being challenges: A historical perspective

Chapter 02: Defining and conceptualizing pediatrician well-being

Chapter 03: Acute and chronic Illness

Section 2: Challenges to Pediatrician Well-being

Chapter 04: Importance of and barriers to preventative health

Chapter 05: Substance use disorders and recovery

Chapter 06: Chronic stress and workload

Chapter 07: Physician burnout

Chapter 08: Moral distress and injury: The impact on physician well-being

Chapter 09: Challenges in diversity, equity and inclusion

Section 3: Fostering Pediatrician Well-being

Chapter 10: Emotional resilience and mindset

Chapter 11: Compassion, meaning and purpose in medicine

Chapter 12: Social connection and belonging

Chapter 13: Spirituality and well-being

Chapter 14: Arts and humanities

Chapter 15: Values alignment

Section 4: Bringing It All Together Through a Career

Chapter 16: Developmental milestones of a career

Chapter 17: Leveraging the Power of One's Brand: How applying a marketing framework can help you thrive in academics

Chapter 18: Integrating well-being into pediatrician culture and practice