Work-Life Balance

SAN DIEGO — Medical providers can reduce work-related burnout by focusing more on self-care and work-life balance, according to a speaker at the AACE Annual Scientific and Clinical Conference.

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MIAMI — In this Healio video exclusive, Jami A. Kinnucan, MD, discusses some of the take-home points from her talk on work-life integration at the first-ever Scrubs & Heels Summit for women in gastroenterology.

“Only the Strong Survive,” written by Jerry Butler, Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, became the most successful single of Butler’s career.

According to published results, there are several discrepancies in work-family integration between female and male orthopedic surgeons that “appear to uniquely impact female orthopedic surgeons.”

Finding the right way to balance work and life as a physician is one thing for an individual, but some women also have the additional responsibilities of a caregiver to consider.

As only the fifth female president of the American Society for Radiation Oncology, or ASTRO, Laura Dawson, MD, FRCPC, FASTRO, is aware that she is part of important change within the organization.

Among health care workers, women experienced greater work-family and family-work conflicts than men during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to data presented at the virtual Women in Medicine Summit.

The struggle to balance a career in medicine and a family life is very real, but there are effective strategies to achieve an equilibrium, a speaker at the Ending Physician Burnout Global Summit said.

In this episode, Priya U. Kumthekar, MD, discusses her entry into the field of neuro-oncology, her insight into translational medicine and its applications outside of medicine, and more.