AMA STEPS Forward® podcast

Dr. Hani Chaabo, Medical Director of Well-Being at Ridgecrest Regional Hospital, joins guest host Dr. Sea Chen to discuss the Well-Being 2.0 framework, a roadmap for restoring joy in medicine. His also shares the importance of assessment and how to make the well-being case to leadership.  

Learn more about the Joy in Medicine™ Recognition Program: https://bit.ly/4grBN0Q  

Learn more about the Organizational Biopsy®: https://bit.ly/3UG87Bg  

Calculate the cost of physician burnout in your organization: https://bit.ly/3TJbd9V

Explore the Wellness-Centered Leadership Playbook: https://bit.ly/4cRjJM2

Dr. Jerry Abraham, Kedren Health, shares his experience participating in the Medical Justice in Advocacy Fellowship, an education initiative from the AMA and the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine. He also discusses how he’s been able to connect the dots between climate change and health equity in his day-to-day work as a physician, both in the office and in street medicine. 

Explore the Social Determinants of Health Toolkit: https://bit.ly/3vpunZb 

Explore the Racial and Health Equity: Concrete STEPS for Health Systems Toolkit: https://bit.ly/3S6LeIX 

Explore the Racial and Health Equity: Concrete STEPS for Smaller Practices Toolkit: https://bit.ly/3TIEe6u 

Drs. Tyra Fainstad and Adrienne Mann, University of Colorado Medicine, join host Dr. Jill Jin to discuss Better Together: a four-month, fully virtual group coaching program for physicians, trainees, and APPs. They explore the program’s coaching methods, as well as its positive impacts on reducing burnout and imposter syndrome, as illustrated by their randomized clinical trial results.

 Learn more about Better Together Physician Coaching here: https://bit.ly/3velgu1 

Read Effect of a Novel Online Group-Coaching Program to Reduce Burnout in Female Resident Physicians: https://bit.ly/3tzj6EV 

Read Online Well-Being Group Coaching Program for Women Physician Trainees: https://bit.ly/3NwdHp5 

Read Impact of an Online Group Coaching Program for Medical Trainees: a Qualitative Analysis: https://bit.ly/3tIZgY8 

Read Better Together: A Novel Online Physician Group Coaching Program to Reduce Burnout in Trainees: A Longitudinal Analysis: https://bit.ly/47wgbuU 

Dr. Mickey Trockel, Psychiatrist and Director of Evidence-Based Innovation for the Stanford University School of Medicine WellMD Center, shares findings from a recent study published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings on the impact of work on personal relationships and physician well-being.    

Read Dr. Trockel’s article here: https://mayocl.in/47lXLOY  

Explore the Wellness-Centered Leadership Playbook: https://bit.ly/4cRjJM2  

Explore the Get Rid of Stupid Stuff Toolkit: https://bit.ly/47yUN9p  

Explore the A Systematic Approach to Reducing EHR Inbox Burden Toolkit: https://bit.ly/3PbkAxN  

Explore the Reducing Regulatory Burden Playbook: https://bit.ly/3X45D2S

Dr. Jeannine Engel, internal medicine physician and Associate Professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, describes the most recent billing and coding documentation guidelines and offers solutions to reduce note bloat and other documentation inefficiencies. 

Explore the Simplified Outpatient Documentation and Coding toolkit: https://bit.ly/3P3cczn 

Veronica Sek, Adjunct Professor at Malcolm X City College of Chicago and Business Services Manager at Sinai Urban Health Institute, shares how to implement a Community Health Worker, a frontline public health figure who is a trusted member of the population they serve, into a team-based care model.  

Explore the Team-Based Care toolkit: https://bit.ly/3LHcDP3

Dr. Marie Brown, Director of Practice Redesign at the AMA, and Dr. Kate Kirley, family medicine physician and AMA Director of Chronic Disease Prevention, discuss how CMS expanded Medicare coverage for screening tests. CMS is now covering Hemoglobin A1C (HbA1c) test, bringing Medicare coverage in alignment with the United States Preventive Services Task Force recommendations.   

Explore the Team-Based Care of Type 2 Diabetes and Prediabetes Toolkit: https://bit.ly/3PgmgEm 

In case you missed it, check out this episode of the AMA STEPS Forward® podcast (originally aired February 21, 2024): Dr. Melinda Ashton, Former Executive VP at Hawaii Pacific Health, and Tracy Methered, Director of Clinical Informatics and Epic Nursing Liaison at Hawaii Pacific Health, discuss GROSS – or Getting Rid of Stupid Stuff: a system-wide program developed by their team to reduce meaningless documentation requirements within the electronic health record. 

Explore the GROSS Toolkit: https://bit.ly/47yUN9p 

Explore the Saving Time Playbook: https://bit.ly/3mtxBXc 

Explore the Debunking Regulatory Myths series: https://bit.ly/DebunkingRegulatoryMyths 

Dr. Sarah Coles, a family medicine physician, AAFP member, and Program Director for the Family and Community Medicine Residency at North Country Healthcare in Arizona, joins guest host Dr. Sea Chen to share practical insights for behavioral health integration, from hybrid model adoption and implementation to finding sustainable success in practice.

Explore the BHI Collaborative’s Compendium here: https://bit.ly/3rmQCgP  

Explore the BHI webinars here: https://bit.ly/3SExup3

Dr. Greg Wallingford, Associate Program Director for the Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship and Course Director for the Leadership Curriculum at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas, Austin, shares how his team developed a rapid debriefing tool to support teams after stressful events. He also draws the connection between well-being and leadership, sharing strategies for bringing everyday leadership skills to teams when they need them the most.

Explore the Wellness-Centered Leadership Playbook: https://bit.ly/3OVigu7 

Listen to the podcast episode Practical Strategies for the Wellness-Centered Leader: https://bit.ly/3NL75Do