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AMA Update 603: Career reflections on improving burnout, practice efficiency, physician well-being and patient care

What are the best conferences on physician health? What is joy in medicine? Why are doctors burning out? What do doctors waste the most time on? Why doctors retire? Our guest is Christine Sinsky, MD, vice president of professional satisfaction at the American Medical Association. In this episode, Dr. Sinsky reflects on her career at the AMA prior to her retirement and the lasting impact of her work to improve physician well-being. AMA CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally, focused on addressing the issues important to you, so you can focus on what matters most — patients. We will meet this challenge together. Join us: https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew

🥼 Go to https://ama-assn.co/FightingForDocs to learn more about our AMA advocacy priorities, including:
▹ Reforming Medicare payment
▹ Fighting scope creep
▹ Fixing prior authorization
▹ Reducing physician burnout
▹ Making technology work for physicians

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AMA Update 472: Pretend Time Off: JAMA burnout study and PTO for doctors

How to heal from physician burnout: Can a vacation help with burnout? How much vacation do doctors get? What are risk factors for burnout? Why do physicians leave their jobs? Our guest is Christine Sinsky, MD, vice president of Professional Satisfaction, at the American Medical Association. AMA CXO Todd Unger hosts.

🩺 The AMA is your powerful ally in patient care. Join now: https://ama-assn.co/JoinRenew

🚧 Access AMA’s STEPS Forward® Program “Real PTO” for Physicians – Reduce Barriers to Taking Time Off: https://ama-assn.co/STEPSforward_PTOpolicy

📴 JAMA study on Vacation Days Taken, Work During Vacation, and Burnout Among US Physicians: https://ama-assn.co/JAMAstudy_VacationBurnout

🏖️ The physician vacation is surf, sun and EHR. Let’s change that. (Full article): https://ama-assn.co/Burnout_physicianPTO

🧰 Wondering how to assess and measure physician burnout? Get AMA’s burnout assessment tool PDF and more, here: https://ama-assn.co/Wellbeing_Program

📋 Access the AMA Organizational Biopsy® PDF: https://ama-assn.co/OrganizationalBiopsy

📊 For more on AMA practice transformation, professional satisfaction and physician burnout research (physician burnout report): https://ama-assn.co/PracticeTransformation_Burnout

💡 AMA EHR burnout resources available: https://ama-assn.co/STEPSForward_EHR

📰 Find heaps more physician wellness articles here: https://ama-assn.co/Wellbeing_resources

🖥️ AMA STEPS Forward burnout (CME physician burnout): https://ama-assn.co/STEPSForward_Burnout

⏰ Googling «time management for doctors»? Get time saving tips for physicians and earn physician wellness CME: https://ama-assn.co/STEPSforward_SavingTime

🌎 #ACPH2025 The American Conference on Physician Health: https://ama-assn.co/ACPH

🌏 #ICPH2024 International Conference on Physician Health™: https://ama-assn.co/ICPH

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AMA Update 237: Joy in medicine & continuing to reduce physician burnout in 2023 with Christine Sinsky, MD

Christine Sinsky, MD, the vice president of professional satisfaction, AMA, discusses how the AMA plans to continue its critical work to reduce physician burnout and enhance well-being in 2023. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

Learn how the AMA is #FightingForDocs and access resources from the AMA Recovery Plan for America’s Physicians by visiting: https://www.ama-assn.org/recovery

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AMA Update 208: Addressing the rapid rise in physician burnout revealed by a new study with Christine Sinsky, MD

Today we dive into new research findings from a recent study on physician burnout with Christine Sinsky, MD, the AMA’s vice president of professional satisfaction. Dr. Sinsky is one of the authors on the study that was published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings last month. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

Learn how the AMA is #FightingForDocs and access resources from the AMA Recovery Plan for America’s Physicians, by visiting: https://www.ama-assn.org/recovery

For more information and to access the study by the AMA, Mayo Clinic and Stanford Medicine, visit: https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/physician-burnout-rate-spikes-new-height

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