Physician resilience is an important skill

Only through individual action and cultural change will we achieve the long-term goals of patient safety, decreased costs, and improved clinical outcomes. Motivational social science would suggest that strict external controls applied to intrinsically motivated professionals would decrease their cre...

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Published in:Family practice management 2013-03, Vol.20 (2), p.6-6
Main Author: Helmers, Scott, MD
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Burnout
Burnout, Professional
Disruptive innovation
Health technology assessment
Humans
Internal Medicine
Physicians
Physicians - psychology
Primary care
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Summary:Only through individual action and cultural change will we achieve the long-term goals of patient safety, decreased costs, and improved clinical outcomes. Motivational social science would suggest that strict external controls applied to intrinsically motivated professionals would decrease their creativity, innovation, and productivity.2 In other words, if we want primary care physicians to better manage chronic disease, be highly productive, and produce quality outcomes, the least effective strategy is to regulate external factors such as how long visits must last or how many patients must be seen per day. Rather, using established guidelines for organizational professionalism, we need to capitalize on physicians' diagnostic and treatment plan expertise and let them discover innovative ways to manage their community of patients.3 Let's build a conversation from within primary care about how to improve the health of the newly insured, how to build effective teams, how to optimize the health of populations, and how to retain joy in our work.
ISSN:1069-5648
1531-1929
DOI:10.1016/S1069-5648(13)60020-9