Paving Your Own Practice

In this brief solo episode, Dr Amna talks about her experience of applying to medical school from a public state school background and how she felt this helped her in her time as a medical student. For any comments or questions, Dr Amna can be contacted on Instagram @portfolio.doctor.

Saying 'no' can be hard in general let alone at work when you are asked to take on additional tasks that are above and beyond your duties. This can lead to burnout, loss of work life balance, loss of time to focus on the things important to us and affect our mental well being. In this episode, Dr Amna shares her tips on how to learn to say no without making things awkward!

In this episode, Dr Amna talks about how to develop your passions, why passion with purpose is more desirable than passion alone and how other factors such as personality and social impacts can influence career choices. Resource: www.myersbriggs.org. Update: Instagram page has been updated to @portfolio.doctor (not what is mentioned in audio).

In this episode Dr Amna talks about common career setbacks encountered by those in the medical fields and how to try and overcome them through a change in mindset, specifically through an understanding of the loci of control and growth mindset concepts. Resources: www.brainpickings.org;  www.businessinsider.com; Transformation Academy.

Dr Amna introduces the purpose of the podcast, what led her here and what she hopes to achieve through this platform.