Academy Links ‘Quality’ to Patient Care, Physician Wellness

More burnout leads to lower quality leads to poorer outcomes leads to more burnout.

It’s a vicious cycle, for sure, but one that can be reversed with
effective solutions and strategies for reclaiming quality patient care
by achieving physician wellness.

Those solutions and strategies will be on full display at The American Association for Physician Leadership’s Winter Wellness Academy
on Jan. 31 through Feb. 2. This is part of AAPL’s larger four-day
Winter Academies that begins Jan. 30 at the Vinoy Renaissance Resort and
Golf Club in St. Petersburg, Florida.

The prevention of burnout among physicians and the organizations
where they work has long been the focus of previous AAPL Wellness
programs – and remains so at this year’s Winter Wellness Academy, but
with additional curriculum emphasizing quality.

Dan Friedland, MD, and Dan Diamond, MD, will begin the academy by
exploring ways to enhance the personal and professional wellness of
individual physicians and their organizations before Bruce Spurlock, MD,
a national leader in quality and patient safety, takes a broader view
that incorporates the quality component into the takeaways of the other
two. 

“As physician leaders, the link between making care better and
strengthening patient and clinician wellness is inextricable,” says
Spurlock. “This course will highlight simple-to-deploy Quality
Improvement methods and promote ‘discovery’ of observable improvement as
a crucial component in accelerating the adoption of new practices,
faster spread of effective techniques and connection with the core
purpose of what it means to be a healer.”

And what it means to be a leader, by learning and returning
with skills, steps and strategies that can be implemented as an
effective and actionable blueprint for your organization. For easy registration , visit your AAPL dashboard.