Physician Burnout: Risk Factors and Remedies

Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Time: 7:00 p.m. – dinner

7:30 p.m. – presentation

Place: OCMA Conference Center

17322 Murphy Avenue

Irvine, CA 92614

Topic: “Physician Burnout: Risk Factors and Remedies”

Speaker: Gideon Strich, M.D., FACR

President and Physician Coach

Healthcare Coaching Associates

Description

Dr. Strich will be presenting an introduction on physician burnout including a discussion of symptoms, causes and professional and personal consequences of burnout. He will present some statistics on the recent increase in burnout and some ways of dealing with and preventing burnout. There will be 4 experiential segments including a chance for individuals to assess their own risk, articulate their own specific stressors and needs, and an introduction to mindfulness with a guided body/breath awareness exercise and his own"30-second meditation" for physicians on the go.

About the Speaker

Gideon Strich, M.D. is President and Physician Coach for Healthcare Coaching Associates. Dr. Strich worked for 25 years as a hospital based diagnostic and interventional radiologist in a level 2 trauma center, a position associated with a lot of time and performance stress, before suffering career ending burnout at the age of 59. Prior to that time, he had served as chairman of the hospital physician well-being committee, dealing with physicians with substance abuse issues and, more frequently, behavioral issues that impeded their ability to effectively practice in the hospital environment. It wasn’t until he recovered from his burnout episode that he began to seriously research what had happened to him, and he realized that burnout was a hidden epidemic that threatens individual physician’s careers and the healthcare delivery system as a whole. He became a certified professional coach to help physicians and to proactively change the healthcare system to improve the environment for both providers and patients.

Dr. Strich has enjoyed teaching the radiology residents at UCI Medical Center for the last 28 years and is currently Clinical Professor of Radiological Sciences at University of California, Irvine.

Cost: Free to OCMA members or CAP members

Free to non-physician guests of OCMA or CAP members

$50 per person for non-member physicians *

$25 per person for non-physician guests of non-member physicians

* This fee can be applied to physician’s membership dues if he/she joins OCMA/CMA.

Questions?

Holly Appelbaum

Director of Physician Relations and Communication

(949) 398-8100, ext 106