Faculty Health in Academic Medicine : Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success / edited by Thomas R. Cole, Thelma Jean Goodrich, Ellen R. Gritz
The Context of Concern for Faculty Health -- Epidemiology -- Causes and Treatment of Impairment and Burnout in Physicians: The Epidemic Within -- Measuring and Maintaining Faculty Health: Lessons from the University of Ottawa -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Faculty Health: A New Field of Inquiry and Programming -- Afterword -- Appendix. Foundations of Faculty Health: A Consensus Statement of Editors and Authors
Summary
Describes faculty health and well-being in academic health science centers across North America. This book calls upon history, literature, religious studies, and film to serve as a point of departure for understanding academic medicine and for designing innovative interventions to enhance faculty health
