#13: Physician wellness, burnout, and Clinical Informatics. Get well and avoid the 54 percent

The Curbsiders Internal Medicine Podcast

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Science, Higher Education, Education

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🗓️ 12 September 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Fifty four percent of physicians report at least one symptom of burnout. On this episode Dr. Philip Kroth an Internist and Chief of Clinical Informatics from the University of New Mexico schools us on how electronic health records (EHR) relate to burnout and tips to promote physician wellness. Miss this episode and you might get burned...out. I refuse to apologize for that pun. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of the Curb Siders, Internal Medicine Podcast, the podcast
0:21.0	that uses expert interviews to bring you clinical pearls and hopefully some practice
0:26.0	changing knowledge. Stuart doesn't like the stock intro but we're going to keep using it.
0:32.0	People need to know who we are, Stuart. I'm kind of burned out, Matt. Right, so on this episode,
0:37.3	our guest is Dr. Philip Croff. Dr. Croff is an associate professor at the University of New Mexico
0:43.0	School of Medicine. He is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Clinical Informatics.
0:48.8	He's also the director of biomedical informatics research, training and scholarship at the UNM8,
0:54.8	at the UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center and the Section Chief of Clinical
1:01.2	Informatics in the UNM Department of Internal Medicine. Dr. Croff has his initial degree in
1:07.8	computer engineering before going to medical school and internal medicine residency and then
1:14.0	completing a fellowship in biomedical informatics. The reason we had Dr. Croff on the show is because
1:20.8	we're number one interested in clinical informatics and figuring out exactly what it is and how it
1:26.6	can be used to improve medical practice. And number two, we wanted to talk to him about his research
1:33.2	on physician wellness, which specifically looks at how the electronic health record affects
1:39.0	physician wellness and physician job satisfaction, burnout, work life balance, etc.
1:45.0	We, some of the things we talk about on here are things that worked with the electronic health
1:51.6	record things that didn't work. I think there's a lot of pearls in here as far as what you can do
1:57.2	to either prevent burnout yourself or to improve your practice and hopefully prevent burnout
2:02.7	in your colleagues as well. So, Dr. Croff was our guest on this episode and again, we're talking
2:09.0	about physician wellness and clinical informatics. I think it's an interesting discussion. So please
2:15.2	enjoy. Welcome back to the curbsiders. I'm Dr. Matthew Wato here with Coho Stewart Brigham.
2:24.0	And our guest today is Dr. Philip Croff from the University of New Mexico. Hi, Dr. Croff.
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