Total Credits: 1.75 including 1.75 AOA Category 1-A Credit(s)
Combat Physician Burnout: Physician Coaching as an Effective Lifelong Tool (ETHICS)
Our medical culture emphasizes perfectionism, denial of personal vulnerability, and delayed gratification. Changes in the healthcare environment have created growing external pressures.
Approximately 50% of all medical students, residents, and physicians experience burnout; increasing medical errors and negatively impacting quality of care and professionalism. Burnout increases risk of depression, anxiety, substance abuse and suicidal ideation. According to the 2022 Medscape National Physician Burnout & Suicide Report, an average 10% of physicians have had thoughts of suicide.
Professional coaching, long utilized in the business world, provides a results-oriented and stigma-free method to address burnout, primarily by increasing one's internal locus of control. Coaching enhances self-awareness, drawing on individual strengths, questioning self-defeating thoughts and beliefs, examining new perspectives, and aligning personal values with professional duties. Coaching utilizes established techniques to increase one's sense of accomplishment, purpose, and engagement - critical to transforming burnout.
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Why Test the Brain?
Cognitive impairment can be caused by many things. Early detection of changes can be vital when it comes to reversal of cognitive impairment or treatment. People of all ages can be testes, as age is not the only cause of impairment.
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Statement of Accreditation
The Texas Osteopathic Medical Association (TOMA) is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to provide osteopathic continuing medical education for physicians. TOMA designates is program for a maximum of 1.75 AOA Category 1-A credits and will report CME credits commensurate with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.
Grievance Policy
All grievances may be directed to TOMA's Executive Director at toma@txosteo.org. All grievances will receive an initial response within 30 days of receipt. If the participant does not receive a satisfactory response, they can submit a complaint to the Bureau of Osteopathic Education of the AOA at 142 East Ontario Street, Chicago, IL 60611.
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Carolyn Moyers, DO, FACOG, is a board-certified OB/GYN serving patients at Sky Women's Health in Fort Worth, Texas. Dr. Moyers has over a decade of medical experience and a passion for providing women with the best care available. She opened Sky Women's Health to give women direct access to their providers in a calming and unhurried environment. Dr. Moyers received her medical degree from the University of North Texas Health Science Center-Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Worth, Texas. She completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Dr. Moyers also obtained her pre-doctoral fellowship in neuromusculoskeletal medicine, also known as osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT), from the University of North Texas Health Science Center. As an osteopath, Dr. Moyers brings a unique perspective to patient care with her vast scope of knowledge from a career in private practice and working as an OB hospitalist. Dr. Moyers is a native Texan, wife, and mom to four boys, who is passionate about women’s health, motherhood, and family. She understands the chaos, the joy, and the life balance women chase and wants to help them along the way.
Dr. Moyers discloses that she has no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients relative to the content of this presentation.
Dr. April Wiechmann serves as the Medical Director for Integrated Behavioral Health at UNTHSC as well as the Clinical Medical Director for Geri-Psych. Her background as a psychologist and fellowship training in Neuropsychology allows her to work in interdisciplinary teams with geriatric physicians, neurologist, psychiatrists, social work, and pharmacists.
Her synergistic approach care has been leveraged by her faculty peers and university leadership. She currently serves as the Past President of the Faculty Senate, Promotion and Tenure Committee, presidential search committee, and UNT system mental health task force. She also serves as an advisor to over 100 osteopathic medical students, teaches medical students in years 1 and 2 and supervises medical students in year 4 along psychiatry residents.
Dr. Wiechmann discloses that she has no relevant financial relationships with any organization producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients relative to the content of this presentation.