Ripples: Physician Well-Being
A Podcast from The Wellness Home
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Season 1 of "Ripples" kicks off the series with Welcome to Ripples: Physician Well-Being, focusing on wellness and growth in the context of academic medicine. Each episode brings home the lesson of when medical practitioners take care of themselves, it not only improves their own life but creates a rippled impact that can affect the lives of others.
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A collection of pebbles from Season 1. Collect all the pebbles and create powerful waves of well-being in your lives.
Dr. Jon Courand, Assistant Dean for Wellbeing at 51˛čąÝ leads our discussion on how to set healthy boundaries in clinical and academic environments, in the second part of our "Healthy Boundaries" series.
Join us to explore what boundaries really are, how to explore our boundary blueprint, and where to start setting healthy boundaries.
Our own Dr. Adriana Dyurich, Academic Success and Behavioral Health Consultant for GME, UT Health SA converses with Dr. Veena Prasad and Dr. Jon Courand, the other members of the Wellness Team.
Time to talk about depression and self-harm.
We are addressing ways to support mental health to reduce stigma and encourage health-seeking behavior. What can we do to promote an open dialogue among physicians about depression and suicide? A conversation with Dr. Scott Jones, Vice Dean for Graduate Medical Education and DIO of LSOM and co-creator of the video, "Time to Talk About It."
Join us to explore ways in which athletes and medical residents use self-agency to connect mental, spiritual and physical health for success and wellbeing. Listen to Ripples, Episode 6, with our own Dr. Marie Charpentier, Director of the Athletic Training Residency, UT Health SA and the Director of Rehabilitation at the University of Texas San Antonio supporting the successful UTSA Football team.
Join us as we learn about balance and the importance of being happy over being special. Listen to Ripples, episode 5, with our beloved heart surgeon, mindful runner, and “ski-bum”, Dr. AJ Carpenter.
Dr. Jason Schillestrom, Program Director for Psychiatry at UTHSA, discusses his experiences training in our institution and learning to embrace and appreciate all relationships in his life, including the challenging ones. Dr. Schillestrom shares two of his most valuable strategies to practice personal wellness: assume the best from others, after all, those in healthcare have decided to dedicate their lives to caring for others; and remember you have choices, and you have made some great ones, too. He reminds himself he chose to go to medical school, he chose to be a psychiatrist, and he claims the right to keep making choices.
Dr. Adriana Dyurich, "Ripples" co-host and Behavioral Health Counselor for the Office for Graduate Medical Education, shares the path that brought her to understand and overcome burnout in her personal journey to wellness at the Long School of Medicine. She also shares her wellness and counseling philosophy and her pebble, “Radical Self-care” to help you prevent or cope with burnout in your life.
Dr. Veena Prasad, Ripples co-host and Behavioral Health Counselor for the Office for Graduate Medical Education, shares her personal journey from biochemistry to wellness at the Long School of Medicine, approaches to counseling and her pebble, “Just One Thing.”
On the first episode of Ripples, we have a special guest for you! We are interviewing the Assistant Dean for Wellbeing for Graduate Medical Education at the Long School of Medicine, Dr. Jon Courand. We discuss the catalyst that turned Dr. Courand to wellness, how he brought his wellness interest to LSOM, the future of wellness at LSOM and his pebble “Be Present at Home.” Dr. Courand is a National ACGME Wellness Consortium founding and current member, executive committee member for the AAMC/CFAS Resilience Committee and Pediatric Hospitalist. Enjoy episode one and create positive ripple effects in your life.