Faculty Health in Academic Medicine

by Cole, Thomas R.; Goodrich, Thelma Jean; Gritz, Ellen R.

• ISBN13: 9781603274500
• ISBN10: 1603274502
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-01-03
• Publisher: Humana Pr Inc

Summary

This ground-breaking new volume is the first of its kind to conceptualize and study the emerging field of faculty health and well-being in academic health science centers across North America. In Faculty Health and Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success, scholars already published in areas related to faculty health, as well as those primed to break new ground, have created a volume that will help define this new and evolving field. Recent years have brought the realization that clinicians and researchers in academic medicine, performing daily under high levels of stress, do so at great cost to their health. Socialized to diagnose and treat disease through biomedical science and technology, physicians often wall themselves off from emotional connection with their patients. Health does not thrive under these layers of pressures, and family and personal relationships are stretched under the need to constantly perform. Faculty Health and Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success draws from medicine, the social sciences, the humanities, and the arts. In addition to surveys, meta-analyses, and interviews, chapter data also calls upon history, literature, religious studies, and film to create a title that serves as a point of departure for understanding academic medicine and for designing new and innovative interventions to enhance faculty health.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Context of Concern for Faculty Health	p. 3
Examination of Faculty Health
Epidemiology	p. 13
Causes and Treatment of Impairment and Burnout in Physicians: The Epidemic Within	p. 29
Measuring and Maintaining Faculty Health	p. 39
Personal and Social Dimensions
The Architecture of Alignment: Leadership and the Psychological Health of Faculty	p. 55
The Career Management Life Cycle: A Model for Supporting and Sustaining Faculty Vitality and Wellness	p. 73
Faculty Resilience and Career Development: Strategies for Strengthening Academic Medicine	p. 83
Diverse Academic Faculty: A Precious Resource for Innovative Institutions	p. 93
Perspectives from the Humanities and Interpretive Social Science
Organizational Culture and Its Consequences	p. 115
The Ethics of Self-Care	p. 127
Faculty Health and the Crisis of Meaning: Humanistic Diagnosis and Treatment	p. 147
Retaining and Reclaiming the Call of Medicine	p. 157
Supports and Interventions
A Model for Designing and Developing a Faculty Health Program: The M. D. Anderson Experience	p. 167
Fostering Faculty Well-Being Through Personal, Community, and Cultural Formation at an Academic Medical Center: Indiana University School of Medicine as a Case Study	p. 183
Conflict Resolution in an Academic Medical Center: The Ombuds Office	p. 205
Preserving Principal: Programming for Faculty Health and Well-Being	p. 223
Conclusion
Faculty Health: A New Field of Inquiry and Programming	p. 235
Afterword	p. 239
Foundations of Faculty Health: A Consenus Statement of Editors and Authors	p. 241
Index	p. 243
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