Full Description
In the 21st century, academic medical centers across the United States continue to make scientific breakthroughs, to make improvements in patient care, and to p- vide the most advanced information and guidance in matters affecting public health. The signs of growth are everywhere—in new research buildings, new pa- nerships with industry, new forms of molecular medicine, and new sensitivity to the role of the human spirit in healing. This growth is due in large part to the dedication and productivity of our faculty, who are providing more patient care, more research, more teaching, and more community service than ever before. Today, there are roughly 135,000 physicians, scientists, and other faculty wo- ing at approximately 125 academic medical centers around the country. Increasingly, they are asked to do more with less. Since the 1990s, academic medical centers in the United States have lost the financial margin they once enjoyed, thereby putting new pressures on research, education, and clinical care. Medical school faculty, previously given funded time for teaching and research, are increasingly drafted to bring in clinical revenues to cover their salaries. Dedicated to the missions of research, teaching, and care, our faculty have responded well to these challenges and perform at a very high level. However, we are beginning to see the results of ongoing stress.
Contents
The Context of Concern for Faculty Health.- Examination of Faculty Health.- Epidemiology.- Causes and Treatment of Impairment and Burnout in Physicians: The Epidemic Within.- Measuring and Maintaining Faculty Health.- Personal and Social Dimensions.- The Architecture of Alignment: Leadership and the Psychological Health of Faculty.- The Career Management Life Cycle: A Model for Supporting and Sustaining Faculty Vitality and Wellness.- Faculty Resilience and Career Development: Strategies for Strengthening Academic Medicine.- Diverse Academic Faculty: A Precious Resource for Innovative Institutions.- Perspectives from the Humanities and Interpretive Social Science.- Organizational Culture and Its Consequences.- The Ethics of Self-Care.- Faculty Health and the Crisis of Meaning: Humanistic Diagnosis and Treatment.- Retaining and Reclaiming the Call of Medicine.- Supports and Interventions.- A Model for Designing and Developing a Faculty Health Program: The M. D. Anderson Experience.- Fostering Faculty Well-Being Through Personal, Community, and Cultural Formation at an Academic Medical Center: Indiana University School of Medicine as a Case Study.- Conflict Resolution in an Academic Medical Center: The Ombuds Office.- Preserving Principal: Programming for Faculty Health and Well-Being.- Conclusion.- Faculty Health: A New Field of Inquiry and Programming.
