Ebook: Faculty Health in Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success

This ground-breaking new volume is the first of its kind to conceptualize and study the emerging field of faculty health and well-being in academic health science centers across North America. In Faculty Health and Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success, scholars already published in areas related to faculty health, as well as those primed to break new ground, have created a volume that will help define this new and evolving field. Recent years have brought the realization that clinicians and researchers in academic medicine, performing daily under high levels of stress, do so at great cost to their health. Socialized to diagnose and treat disease through biomedical science and technology, physicians often wall themselves off from emotional connection with their patients. Health does not thrive under these layers of pressures, and family and personal relationships are stretched under the need to constantly perform. Faculty Health and Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success draws from medicine, the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts. In addition to surveys, meta-analyses, and interviews, chapter data also calls upon history, literature, religious studies, and film to create a title that serves as a point of departure for understanding academic medicine and for designing new and innovative interventions to enhance faculty health.

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This ground-breaking new volume is the first of its kind to conceptualize and study the emerging field of faculty health and well-being in academic health science centers across North America. In Faculty Health and Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success, scholars already published in areas related to faculty health, as well as those primed to break new ground, have created a volume that will help define this new and evolving field. Recent years have brought the realization that clinicians and researchers in academic medicine, performing daily under high levels of stress, do so at great cost to their health. Socialized to diagnose and treat disease through biomedical science and technology, physicians often wall themselves off from emotional connection with their patients. Health does not thrive under these layers of pressures, and family and personal relationships are stretched under the need to constantly perform. Faculty Health and Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success draws from medicine, the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts. In addition to surveys, meta-analyses, and interviews, chapter data also calls upon history, literature, religious studies, and film to create a title that serves as a point of departure for understanding academic medicine and for designing new and innovative interventions to enhance faculty health.

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This ground-breaking new volume is the first of its kind to conceptualize and study the emerging field of faculty health and well-being in academic health science centers across North America. In Faculty Health and Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success, scholars already published in areas related to faculty health, as well as those primed to break new ground, have created a volume that will help define this new and evolving field. Recent years have brought the realization that clinicians and researchers in academic medicine, performing daily under high levels of stress, do so at great cost to their health. Socialized to diagnose and treat disease through biomedical science and technology, physicians often wall themselves off from emotional connection with their patients. Health does not thrive under these layers of pressures, and family and personal relationships are stretched under the need to constantly perform. Faculty Health and Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success draws from medicine, the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts. In addition to surveys, meta-analyses, and interviews, chapter data also calls upon history, literature, religious studies, and film to create a title that serves as a point of departure for understanding academic medicine and for designing new and innovative interventions to enhance faculty health.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
The Context of Concern for Faculty Health....Pages 3-9
Epidemiology....Pages 13-28
Causes and Treatment of Impairment and Burnout in Physicians: The Epidemic Within....Pages 29-38
Measuring and Maintaining Faculty Health....Pages 39-52
The Architecture of Alignment: Leadership and the Psychological Health of Faculty....Pages 55-71
The Career Management Life Cycle: A Model for Supporting and Sustaining Faculty Vitality and Wellness....Pages 73-81
Faculty Resilience and Career Development: Strategies for Strengthening Academic Medicine....Pages 83-92
Diverse Academic Faculty: A Precious Resource for Innovative Institutions....Pages 93-111
Organizational Culture and Its Consequences....Pages 115-126
The Ethics of Self-Care....Pages 127-146
Faculty Health and the Crisis of Meaning: Humanistic Diagnosis and Treatment....Pages 147-156
Retaining and Reclaiming the Call of Medicine....Pages 157-164
A Model for Designing and Developing a Faculty Health Program: The M. D. Anderson Experience....Pages 167-182
Fostering Faculty Well-Being Through Personal, Community, and Cultural Formation at an Academic Medical Center: Indiana University School of Medicine as a Case Study....Pages 183-204
Conflict Resolution in an Academic Medical Center: The Ombuds Office....Pages 205-222
Preserving Principal: Programming for Faculty Health and Well-Being....Pages 223-231
Faculty Health: A New Field of Inquiry and Programming....Pages 235-237
Back Matter....Pages 239-247

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This ground-breaking new volume is the first of its kind to conceptualize and study the emerging field of faculty health and well-being in academic health science centers across North America. In Faculty Health and Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success, scholars already published in areas related to faculty health, as well as those primed to break new ground, have created a volume that will help define this new and evolving field. Recent years have brought the realization that clinicians and researchers in academic medicine, performing daily under high levels of stress, do so at great cost to their health. Socialized to diagnose and treat disease through biomedical science and technology, physicians often wall themselves off from emotional connection with their patients. Health does not thrive under these layers of pressures, and family and personal relationships are stretched under the need to constantly perform. Faculty Health and Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success draws from medicine, the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts. In addition to surveys, meta-analyses, and interviews, chapter data also calls upon history, literature, religious studies, and film to create a title that serves as a point of departure for understanding academic medicine and for designing new and innovative interventions to enhance faculty health.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
The Context of Concern for Faculty Health....Pages 3-9
Epidemiology....Pages 13-28
Causes and Treatment of Impairment and Burnout in Physicians: The Epidemic Within....Pages 29-38
Measuring and Maintaining Faculty Health....Pages 39-52
The Architecture of Alignment: Leadership and the Psychological Health of Faculty....Pages 55-71
The Career Management Life Cycle: A Model for Supporting and Sustaining Faculty Vitality and Wellness....Pages 73-81
Faculty Resilience and Career Development: Strategies for Strengthening Academic Medicine....Pages 83-92
Diverse Academic Faculty: A Precious Resource for Innovative Institutions....Pages 93-111
Organizational Culture and Its Consequences....Pages 115-126
The Ethics of Self-Care....Pages 127-146
Faculty Health and the Crisis of Meaning: Humanistic Diagnosis and Treatment....Pages 147-156
Retaining and Reclaiming the Call of Medicine....Pages 157-164
A Model for Designing and Developing a Faculty Health Program: The M. D. Anderson Experience....Pages 167-182
Fostering Faculty Well-Being Through Personal, Community, and Cultural Formation at an Academic Medical Center: Indiana University School of Medicine as a Case Study....Pages 183-204
Conflict Resolution in an Academic Medical Center: The Ombuds Office....Pages 205-222
Preserving Principal: Programming for Faculty Health and Well-Being....Pages 223-231
Faculty Health: A New Field of Inquiry and Programming....Pages 235-237
Back Matter....Pages 239-247
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