It's Not Your Fault! Acknowledging Burnout and Helping Early Career Docs Thrive | Amna Shabbir, MD, NBC-HWC, CPC

Episode 027 | Amna Shabbir, MD, CPC is passionate about helping doctors thrive in life after medical training as an early career physician.

She is the Founder of Early Career Physicians Institute, a Certified Wellness and Life Coach, Dual Board-certified Geriatrician-Internist and Super Mom to two young girls.
In this episode:🔥 In search of alignment
🔥 3 stages of the Early Career Physician   
🔥 Ask yourself what still gives you joy in medicine?
🔥 The importance of early awareness and intervention
🔥 The training you need after your training is done
🔥 How Amna is helping great doctors stay in medicine
🔥 Recognizing how much agency we always have
🔥 Ripple of Change -- shout out to Dr. Todd Otten and Joshua Judy
🔥 It's only your fault if you accept it -- shout out Dr. Robert Kornfeld
🔥 How to start climbing out of the hole
🔥 Being a doctor is a life threatening profession
🔥 Overwhelm and denial
🔥 The value of creative pursuits 
🔥 Shout out to Dr. Erinn Weisman and the Dr. Me First and Burnout to Badass podcasts
🔥 Burned out docs as crabs in a bucket -- should out Dr. Michael Hersh
🔥 Simply creating white space is often the first step. After that, everything else just pours out.
🔥 Choice + agency + a little help from your friends
🔥 The power of our stories
🔥 Feeling held in the shared human experience
🔥 You will fall, and you will fail, and you need help. You're not broken.
🔥 The higher you get, the more help you need
🔥 Do you have anyone in your corner?
🔥 Work dread and morning dread as indicators -- another shout out to Dr. Hersh
🔥 Misery and cynicism love company
🔥 It's complicated as another way of saying it's not a priority
🔥 Corporations that abdicated responsibility for taking care of the doctors they employ
🔥 The organizations that truly care (they do exist) -- a business case and a moral case
🔥 Chronic undervaluation of human capital
🔥 What choice are you making today?
🔥 Unique challenges that female physicians face
🔥 Despite the challenges, the future of our profession is bright
🔗 Connect with and learn from Dr. Shabbir and the Early Career Physicians Institute
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