Solving Resident Burnout Podcast

Justin is a financial planner, student loan expert, and physician spouse. He is the founder of APM Wealth, a financial planning and investment management company focused on anesthesiologists and pain management physicians. More importantly, he's a proud husband to an amazing anesthesia resident (his wife, Sarah) and proud dad to their new son (Calvin).

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Dr. Jacquelyn Corley is a neurosurgery resident physician and a current research fellow at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change at Harvard Medical School. She focuses on global neurosurgery research and global health advocacy and policy to promote health systems strengthening. She is also a founder and co-president of the Gender Equity Initiative in Global Surgery, which strives to promote gender equity in the surgical, anesthesia, and obstetric workforce around the world through directed and quality research, effective advocacy, and excellent mentorship. As a writer, she likes to focus on global health and gender equity themes. She has also covered other topics, such as end-of-life care, domestic policy, and the opioid crisis. Her articles have been featured in numerous media outlets, including CNN, Huffington Post, and Newsweek, as well as in academic journals, such as JAMA and the Lancet.

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Jason Reminick, MD, MBA, MS is the CEO & Founder of Thalamus, the premier cloud-based interview management platform designed for application to graduate medical education (GME) training programs. He is passionate about medical innovation, education and technology with work featured in Health Leaders Media and PracticeLink Magazine, as well as leading medical journals including The Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME), The Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) and Movement Disorders. 

Formerly, Jason trained in the combined Pediatrics/Anesthesiology program at Stanford University, with interests in pediatric chronic pain. He graduated Alpha Omega Alpha from the University of Rochester School of Medicine, while concurrently earning his MBA from the Simon Graduate School of Business, concentrating in Entrepreneurship and Health Sciences Management. He graduated Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania, majoring in Biochemistry and Theatre Arts, while concurrently sub-matriculating to earn a Master’s of Science in Chemistry. 

In addition to his role at Thalamus, he is also the Director of the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs (SOPE) Nashville Chapter and also serves as an advisor, specializing in healthcare and business pitching, at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. 

Jason was recognized as a Physician of Tomorrow award recipient (2012) by the American Medical Association for his entrepreneurial, humanistic and medical journalism pursuits. He was a member of the Stanford University Society of Physician Scholars (2013-2017) and a Joseph Collins Foundation Fellow (2011-2013). He has also won several nationally recognized entrepreneurship competitions including MedHack-San Francisco (2014) and the Johns Hopkins University Business Plan Competition (2012). 

Splitting his time between the Bay Area and Nashville, TN, Jason is well versed in the technology and fundraising scene in Silicon Valley.  Thalamus finished in the top of its cohort in Jason Calacanis’ Launch accelerator and then went on to receive VC funding from some of the top firms in the Valley including Fresco VC, Kapor Capital and The Launch Syndicate. 

Originally from East Meadow (Long Island), NY, Jason is a husband and father of an amazing 6 month old boy.  He enjoys theater, movies, fine dining and following New York area sports teams. 

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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.

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.

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Dig 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. 

Andrew Taggart is a practical philosopher. He asks and seeks to answer the most basic questions of human existence with others around the world. In 2009, he finished a Ph.D., left the academic life, and moved to New York City because he thought the most fundamental question of how to live needed to be brought back into our everyday lives. Each day he speaks via Zoom with business executives, tech entrepreneurs, visual artists, and physicians throughout the US, Canada, and Europe about the nature of a good life. He is also the founder of Askole whose aim is to help technologists examine what, at bottom, they're taking for granted. His ideas have been discussed in Quartz, The Guardian, Big Think, Wisconsin Public Radio, TEDx, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. He and his wife Alexandra are currently exploring the American Southwest.

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Andrew Taggart is a practical philosopher. He asks and seeks to answer the most basic questions of human existence with others around the world. In 2009, he finished a Ph.D., left the academic life, and moved to New York City because he thought the most fundamental question of how to live needed to be brought back into our everyday lives. Each day he speaks via Zoom with business executives, tech entrepreneurs, visual artists, and physicians throughout the US, Canada, and Europe about the nature of a good life. He is also the founder of Askole whose aim is to help technologists examine what, at bottom, they're taking for granted. His ideas have been discussed in Quartz, The Guardian, Big Think, Wisconsin Public Radio, TEDx, The Washington Post, and elsewhere. He and his wife Alexandra are currently exploring the American Southwest.

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Al'ai Alvarez, MD, FACEP, FAAEM is an assistant clinical professor in Emergency Medicine and an assistant program director in the Stanford Emergency Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Alvarez focuses on the interdependence of residency wellbeing with performance improvement in the patient experience, quality, and patient safety. Dr. Alvarez is also the co-chair of the Stanford WellMD's Physician Wellness Forum and is one of the peer supporters for WellMD's Physician Resource Network (PRN) Support for faculty and trainees. Dr. Alvarez has given several grand rounds and national conference lectures and workshops on relevant topics in gratitude and compassion, physician wellbeing, burnout, the imposter syndrome, as well as increasing leadership capacity and mentorship to enhance diversity and inclusion. Dr. Alvarez works on recruitment in faculty, graduate, and undergraduate medical education with a special interest in finding ways to increase diversity and inclusion in medicine.

In this episode we cover the following:

As a takeaway, Dr. Alvarez reminds us to practice self-compassion.

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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.

Dr. Andrew Parada is a resident in his PGY-3 year in Psychiatry at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He went to Chicago Medical School for undergraduate medical training. He has an interest in child and adolescent psychiatry and will be joining the Rutgers RWJMS Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship in July 2020. Hobbies and interests include science fiction and traveling.

He encourages you to:

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Sorry for the less than perfect audio quality. It was a busy week clinically and I wanted to get this episode out ASAP since it is time-sensitive. Thanks for understanding.
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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.

Have you ever wondered...

...then you're going to love this inaugural episode.

The guest and I met on Reddit after I read one of his thoughtful posts. This project is meant to display resident (and fellow!) insight from the front line. Even though he is in a lucrative specialty, not going into academics, and will very shortly be an attending he still cares about burnout and wellness. 

So, if he can do it. Why can't more of us?

Too often wellness is pitched one way - and this guest shows us that doesn't have to be the case. 

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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.

Remember, the views held by the guest and host reflect their personal opinions and do not reflect their current past or future employers, training programs, colleagues, and any other affiliated organizations. How did you like that, lawyers?