Tag: Burnout
Crawford panel looks at opportunities to plug and extend vascular surgery...
This year’s E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum zeroed in on the pipeline of sources feeding the vascular surgery ranks. Incoming SVS President Joseph...
SVS seeks volunteers to write position paper
Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) members have until July 31 to apply to serve on a new SVS writing group to develop a position...
Physical pain a risk factor for vascular surgery trainee burnout, survey...
A recent survey has indicated that physical pain is “prevalent” among vascular surgery trainees and represents a risk factor for burnout. Eric Pillado, MD,...
Crawford panel focuses minds on challenges facing vascular surgery workforce numbers
Yesterday's E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum, which looked at ways to address the pipeline of sources feeding the vascular surgery pool of talent,...
Intentional mentorship and pushing beyond representation
Chicago medical student Maria Paz, BS, discusses intentional mentorship—and why she believes it matters.
When I started medical school, I never imagined that the most...
A brilliant plan to increase vascular surgeons’ income—and decrease the incidence...
I have come up with a brilliant plan that will decrease the incidence of stroke nationwide, provide an excellent source of income for vascular...
Cognitive dissonance, unhappy physicians and burnout
Emotional intelligence has been widely accepted as an important element of leadership. The seminal work of Daniel Goldman informs us that the education of...
An antidote for burnout: Vascular surgeons as hospital administrators
The much-maligned electronic health record (EHR)—sometimes referred to as electronic medical record, or EMR—is not among the causes of burnout, per se, but rather...
Silence is golden—but does self-imposed silence lead to burnout?
Burnout is associated with silence in various contexts. It is called the silent crisis, the silent epidemic, or the silent killer. What is not...
Rise in cardiovascular disease, vascular surgeon burnout presents a public health...
Cases of cardiovascular disease are rising across the U.S., with large disparities seen in ethnic groups and poorer geographical areas. In combination with increased...
Trainee wellness: ‘No one really prepared me for the failures’
Communication and an awareness of how often vascular surgery fails emerged as key talking points during a Vascular Surgery Interest Group (VSIG) Lunch Symposium...
Cuts to Medicare: ‘As vascular disease complexity increases, reimbursement for complex...
Outgoing Midwestern Vascular Surgical Society (MVSS) President Kellie Brown, MD, has seen fundamental changes to the way vascular surgery is practiced during her 20...
Pandemic affected surgeons financially and emotionally, COVID-19 session hears
Besides the stunning death toll and the disruption of life around the world, COVID-19 hit vascular surgeons financially and emotionally. Two presenters at the...
UPMC study probing stress-reduction interventions among high-burden specialties begins enrollment
A new study aiming to establish whether a series of mindfulness and physical interventions can help reduce stress and burnout among physicians who treat...
Medicare E&M coding changes and EHR physician burnout
A recent article published in Vascular Specialist summarized data regarding the undeniable relationship between electronic health records (EHRs) and burnout amongst physicians. There is...
The top 10 most popular stories from April
Our April cover story on the links between electronic health records (EHRs) and physician burnout, the continuing problem of manels (or all-male speaking panels)...
An open letter to Epic Systems
Dear Epic,
I am not writing to you today as a customer, but rather on behalf of your users. More specifically, I am representative...
Peer-to-peer coaching program created to strengthen wellness support
The Society for Vascular Surgery (SVS) and the Academy for Surgical Coaching are developing a first-of-its-kind coaching program that strengthens wellness support for vascular...
Ramped-up productivity incentives and a deadly down slope
The healthcare system always conducts a “root cause” analysis when a medical error occurs. It looks for a systemic problem to address in order to...
‘Grit matters in vascular surgery’
"This is what happens to you when you show grit: You end up being elected president of the American College of Surgeons."
Those were among...
Study: 40% of vascular surgeons report suffering chronic work-related pain
A majority of vascular surgeons are in pain after a day of operating—with open and endovascular surgery identified as the types of intervention causing...
Vascular surgeons: Avoiding burnout and achieving wellness
Coaching, institutional and cultural changes, advocacy, identifying issues and banding together all can play a part in vascular surgeons’ avoiding burnout and achieving wellness....
Time, money and marginal utility
Like most older surgeons, my residency and trauma fellowship years at Grady Hospital— part of Emory University School of Medicine—remain a blur. With frequent,...
SVN to host virtual annual meeting July 15
The Society for Vascular Nursing (SVN) 38th Annual Conference—a virtual meeting—will be held from 6 to 9:30 p.m. Central Daylight Time Wednesday, July 15.
In...
Alarming rate of suicidal ideation among female vascular surgeons warrants urgent...
Gender-based differences driving career dissatisfaction and burnout exist, viewers of the SVS ONLINE (June 20–July 2) virtual conference heard during the William J. von...
Burning issue: Surgeon wellness occupies central role in ONLINE agenda
As in the past few years, wellness and burnout—and how to mitigate them—remain topics of education and discussion at Society for Vascular Surgery meetings.
This...
Advocating for our members
COVID-19 has altered almost all of our lives to a degree previously unimaginable. Millions of Americans continue to lose their jobs, hundreds of thousands...
Study: Mentoring, social events may decrease burnout in surgery residents
Burnout in surgery residents—associated with higher levels of depression and perceived stress—may be alleviated by programmatic social events, limiting weekend work and formal mentoring...
Crawford Critical Issues Forum 2020 echoes founding charge
This year’s E. Stanley Crawford Critical Issues Forum is set to come full circle from its very genesis 32 years ago at the Vascular...
Wellness: Of dreaming in blood and the ‘moral injury’ contained in...
Have you ever “dreamt in blood”? A vivid, waking nightmare that reminds you of exsanguinating hemorrhage that can’t be stopped? I have. An Iraqi...
Cost of burnout on physician health and surgical performance explored
NEW YORK—It’s the recurring theme on the conference circuit that stubbornly refuses to subside but one whose toll is great and lasting. At the...
Minority of patients in population of 4M demonstrate rapid progress of...
PALM BEACH, Fla.—While the overall incidence of rapid carotid stenosis progression is low, patients who show any degree of a worsening condition may warrant...
Am I my brother’s keeper? A skeptic’s call for peer support...
In the classic 1991 movie, “New Jack City,” drug dealer Nino Brown rhetorically asks his gang (the Cash Money Brothers), “Am I my brother’s...