Understanding and Cultivating Well-being for the Pediatrician (eBook)

With growing attention surrounding the importance of physician well-being, organizations are institutionalizing physician well-being efforts. Promoting well-being requires a understanding of the components, barriers and promoters of physician well-being, While other books exist in this space, many are focused on individual resilience-building strategies or are too broad to apply to specific groups of physicians, such as pediatricians. A critical gap in the existing literature is a book that uses an evidence-based model of well-being and applying this model to unique experience of pediatricians.

Rather than a work-centric approach, the physician well-being model we describe in this book takes a comprehensive approach to well-being, integrating evidence and expertise from a broad body of well-being research and translating this knowledge to the lives and work of pediatricians. Further, while other texts focus on negative consequences of a lack of well-being, such as burnout, this text is organized around defining, understanding and optimizing well-being. Each chapter will provide strategies for both individual pediatricians and healthcare organizations to consider to improve pediatrician well-being at their institution. This book integrates well-being science from disciplines outside of medicine, offering innovative strategies to addressing this important issue.

This is a book designed for pediatricians, health care leaders, and organizations looking to better understand and implement strategies for pediatrician well-being. The authors will take readers on a journey through the history of physician well-being leading to the current state of well-being in the context of modern medical practice, technology, society, policy and family life. Using an integrated model of physician well-being, readers will learn about the current state, solutions, tensions and future directions of physician well-being.

Sarah Webber, MD: Dr. Webber is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a pediatrician specializing in procedural sedation.  As Director of Well-being she leads the Department of Pediatrics' well-being efforts. Her research investigates factors that influence pediatrician well-being.

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health
Madison, WI

Jessica Babal, MD: Dr. Babal is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.  She is a primary care pediatrician. Her research explores physician and health care trainee well-being and how the medical humanities cultivates well-being and fosters clinician ability to provide calm, compassionate patient care.

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health
Madison, WI

Megan A. Moreno, MD, MSEd, MPH is a Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an adolescent medicine physician and researcher. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology and health.

Professor of Pediatrics
Academic Divison Chief, Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health
Madison, WI