Faculty Health in Academic Medicine

About this book

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.

Written for: Physicians in all specialties, researchers, administrators in academic health centers, social scientists, business management (organizational) faculty, social science academics and researchers

Keywords:

• Academic Medicine
• Administrative Responsibilities
• Faculty Health
• Health Professions
• Medical Education

Contents

Part I Introduction

1 The Context of Concern for Faculty Health ........................................ 3
Thelma Jean Goodrich, Thomas R. Cole, and Ellen R. Gritz

Part II Examination of Faculty Health

2 Epidemiology ........................................................................................... 13
Daria Boccher-Lattimore

3 Causes and Treatment of Impairment and Burnout
in Physicians: The Epidemic Within .................................................... 29
Eugene V. Boisaubin

4 Measuring and Maintaining Faculty Health ........................................ 39
Mamta Gautam

Part III Personal and Social Dimensions

5 The Architecture of Alignment: Leadership
and the Psychological Health of Faculty .............................................. 55
Susan H. McDaniel, Stephen P. Bogdewic, Richard L. Holloway,
and Jeri Hepworth

6 The Career Management Life Cycle: A Model for Supporting
and Sustaining Faculty Vitality and Wellness ...................................... 73
Thomas R. Viggiano and Henry W. Strobel

7 Faculty Resilience and Career Development: Strategies
for Strengthening Academic Medicine ................................................. 83
Janet Bickel

8 Diverse Academic Faculty: A Precious Resource
for Innovative Institutions ...................................................................... 93
Elise D. Cook and Harry R. Gibbs

Part IV Perspectives from the Humanities and Interpretive Social Science

9 Organizational Culture and Its Consequences .................................... 115
R. Kevin Grigsby

10 The Ethics of Self-Care .......................................................................... 127
Craig Irvine

11 Faculty Health and the Crisis of Meaning: Humanistic
Diagnosis and Treatment ...................................................................... 147
Thomas Cole and Nathan Carlin

12 Retaining and Reclaiming the Call of Medicine .................................. 157
Henry W. Strobel

Part V Supports and Interventions

13 A Model for Designing and Developing a Faculty
Health Program: The M. D. Anderson Experience ............................ 167
Ellen R. Gritz, Janis Apted, Walter Baile, Kathleen Sazama,
and Georgia Thomas

14 Fostering Faculty Well-Being Through Personal, Community,
and Cultural Formation at an Academic Medical Center:
Indiana University School of Medicine as a Case Study .................... 183
Debra K. Litzelman, Penelope R. Williamson, Anthony L. Suchman,
Stephen P. Bogdewic, Ann H. Cottingham, Richard M. Frankel,
David L. Mossbarger, and Thomas S. Inui

15 Conflict Resolution in an Academic Medical Center:
The Ombuds Office ................................................................................. 205
Anu Rao, Patricia A. Parker, and Walter F. Baile

16 Preserving Principal: Programming for Faculty
Health and Well-Being ........................................................................... 223
Thelma Jean Goodrich

Part VI Conclusion

17 Faculty Health: A New Field of Inquiry and Programming .............. 235
Thelma Jean Goodrich, Thomas R. Cole, and Ellen R. Gritz

Afterword ......................................................................................................... 239
John Mendelsohn

Appendix Foundations of Faculty Health:
A Consenus Statement of Editors and Authors ........................................... 241

Index ................................................................................................................. 243