Emphasis on Wellness on Day 2 of AAPL’s Physician Leadership Summit

Balance, well-being and synergy come into focus during the Beyond Burnout & Resilience workshop. Also on tap: Spring Institute and networking opportunities.

BOSTON, Mass. — By many accounts, primary care physicians devote more than half of their workday to tasks related to electronic health records during and after clinic hours. These obligations contribute to work-life imbalance, dissatisfaction and a burnout rate around 50 percent.

Physician leaders have similar stressors — and simultaneously must help their people overcome their own work challenges amid today’s high-pressure, ever-changing health care environment that affects personal and professional satisfaction.

Take advantage of the networking opportunities afforded by class breaks and the evening reception. RSVP for the reception through your membership dashboard. | AAPL Staff

Balance, well-being and synergy come into focus today during Beyond Burnout & Resilience, a part of the 2018 AAPL Physician Leadership Summit, which continues through Monday, April 30. The one-day workshop features presentations from leading wellness experts, providing strategies attendees can use to address burnout and increase wellness within their organizations.

Registration for this workshop has closed, but wellness will be top-of-mind throughout the day for all Summit participants. (Our next workshop takes place during the Physician Wellness Academy, July 21-22 in Chicago, Illinois. Visit physicianleaders.org/summer for details.)

For more discussion of the subject, check out these recent posts from our newsroom.

• Healing the Healers: Tangible Results in Fighting Burnout. With physician leadership as a guiding force, many forward-thinking organizations are addressing the issue as something more than a personal challenge.

• Physician, Heal Thyself: Nine Techniques to Ease Personal Stress. There is no short-term fix, but there are ways to help clinicians work their way through the increasingly complex world of health care.

• Physician-Led Wellness Plan Beating Burnout. A peer-written and peer-reviewed article about how pervasive burnout should be attributed to the workplace, rather than the individual.

Today’s schedule of events includes the second day of the three-day annual Spring Institute, which features live learning sessions.

Other highlights:

• Take advantage of the networking opportunities afforded by the morning (9:45 a.m.) and afternoon (2:45 p.m.) class breaks, and the evening reception (6 p.m.). RSVP for the reception through your membership dashboard, at app.physicianleaders.org.

• The midday lunch break includes information about advancing your career, presented by association university partners (11:30 a.m., Constitution Ballroom).

For information about events, visit physicianleaders.org/summit or visit the association service center on the second floor of the hotel. To claim CME or register for bonus activities, visit your membership dashboard at app.physicianleaders.org. And check out our live blog, at physicianleaders.org/spring18, for complete coverage of the happenings.