Dr. Smith is an intern at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Following internship, she will join the dermatology residency program at University of California, Davis. She is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Prior to medical school, she worked in the private sector, first as a strategy analyst at Deloitte Consulting and then as a data associate at ZocDoc. She is passionate about applying design thinking to optimize clinical care and research as well as to innovate new approaches to physician well-being. Her hobbies include trying to keep orchids alive, very amateur wine tasting, and chasing her dog Bleecker around the parks of New York.
What is design thinking?
How can design thinking be applied to residents as they approach well-being initiatives or other projects?
Common misconceptions about making changes at the program level
Email her psmith0314[at]Gmail[dot]comDig around the internet to check the pulse on conversations around design thinking in health care and consider applications to your clinical care and personal well-being as a physician.
Background on design thinking from Ideo Website and HBR article.
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop on design thinking and physician wellbeing
Health Design Thinking: Creating Products and Services for Better Health found here.
UCSF's adoption found here.
AAFP's view found here.
Prescribe Design website found here
Doctor as a Designer/Joyce Lee work found here. And finally, learn more about how to survive residency even with no time, no money, and no power. The Solving Resident Burnout Book is a practical, evidence-based manual that is easy to read.
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