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Faculty Health in Academic Medicine

Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success

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Editors:
  1. Thomas R. Cole

    1. McGovern Center for Health, Humanities, and the Human Spirit, University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston

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  2. Thelma Jean Goodrich

    1. Department of Behavioral Science, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston

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  3. Ellen R. Gritz

    1. Department of Behavioral Science, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston

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  • Ground breaking, first-of-its-kind title on the field of academic faculty health
  • Unique, illuminating perspectives and theories -- from prevention and wellness to diagnosis and treatment issues
  • Comprehensively reviews and explores the responsibilities that academic health centers have to their faculty and which faculty in the health professions have to themselves and each other
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    1. The Context of Concern for Faculty Health

      • Thelma Jean Goodrich, Thomas R. Cole, Ellen R. Gritz
      Pages 3-9

  3. Examination of Faculty Health

    1. Epidemiology

      • Daria Boccher-Lattimore
      Pages 13-28

    2. Causes and Treatment of Impairment and Burnout in Physicians: The Epidemic Within

      • Eugene V. Boisaubin
      Pages 29-38

    3. Measuring and Maintaining Faculty Health

      • Mamta Gautam
      Pages 39-52

  4. Personal and Social Dimensions

    1. The Architecture of Alignment: Leadership and the Psychological Health of Faculty

      • Susan H. McDaniel, Stephen P. Bogdewic, Richard L. Holloway, Jeri Hepworth
      Pages 55-71

    2. The Career Management Life Cycle: A Model for Supporting and Sustaining Faculty Vitality and Wellness

      • Thomas R. Viggiano, Henry W. Strobel
      Pages 73-81

    3. Faculty Resilience and Career Development: Strategies for Strengthening Academic Medicine

      • Janet Bickel
      Pages 83-92

    4. Diverse Academic Faculty: A Precious Resource for Innovative Institutions

      • Elise D. Cook, Harry R. Gibbs
      Pages 93-111

  5. Perspectives from the Humanities and Interpretive Social Science

    1. Organizational Culture and Its Consequences

      • R. Kevin Grigsby
      Pages 115-126

    2. The Ethics of Self-Care

      • Craig Irvine
      Pages 127-146

    3. Faculty Health and the Crisis of Meaning: Humanistic Diagnosis and Treatment

      • Thomas Cole, Nathan Carlin
      Pages 147-156

    4. Retaining and Reclaiming the Call of Medicine

      • Henry W. Strobel
      Pages 157-164

  6. Supports and Interventions

    1. A Model for Designing and Developing a Faculty Health Program: The M. D. Anderson Experience

      • Ellen R. Gritz, Janis Apted, Walter Baile, Kathleen Sazama, Georgia Thomas
      Pages 167-182

    2. Fostering Faculty Well-Being Through Personal, Community, and Cultural Formation at an Academic Medical Center: Indiana University School of Medicine as a Case Study

      • Debra K. Litzelman, Penelope R. Williamson, Anthony L. Suchman, Stephen P. Bogdewic, Ann H. Cottingham, Richard M. Frankel et al.
      Pages 183-204

    3. Conflict Resolution in an Academic Medical Center: The Ombuds Office

      • Anu Rao, Patricia A. Parker, Walter F. Baile
      Pages 205-222

    4. Preserving Principal: Programming for Faculty Health and Well-Being

      • Thelma Jean Goodrich
      Pages 223-231

  7. Conclusion

    1. Faculty Health: A New Field of Inquiry and Programming

      • Thelma Jean Goodrich, Thomas R. Cole, Ellen R. Gritz
      Pages 235-237

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 239-247
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About this book

In the 21st century, academic medical centers across the United States continue to make scientific breakthroughs, to make improvements in patient care, and to p- vide the most advanced information and guidance in matters affecting public health. The signs of growth are everywhere—in new research buildings, new pa- nerships with industry, new forms of molecular medicine, and new sensitivity to the role of the human spirit in healing. This growth is due in large part to the dedication and productivity of our faculty, who are providing more patient care, more research, more teaching, and more community service than ever before. Today, there are roughly 135,000 physicians, scientists, and other faculty wo- ing at approximately 125 academic medical centers around the country. Increasingly, they are asked to do more with less. Since the 1990s, academic medical centers in the United States have lost the financial margin they once enjoyed, thereby putting new pressures on research, education, and clinical care. Medical school faculty, previously given funded time for teaching and research, are increasingly drafted to bring in clinical revenues to cover their salaries. Dedicated to the missions of research, teaching, and care, our faculty have responded well to these challenges and perform at a very high level. However, we are beginning to see the results of ongoing stress.

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"Faculty Health in Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success begins by documenting startling levels of burnout in academic medical centers. … psychologists figure prominently in this volume should make it interesting for other psychologists in academic medical centers. … it also suggests the prominent role that psychology can play in helping to improve the quality of care, and the quality of life, for both patients and faculty in America’s academic medical centers." (Scott Temple, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 54 (33), August, 2009)

“Provides useful and instructive clarification of the often bewildering array of variables and factors that impinges on the wellness of faculty. … Readers will find a variety of stimulating ideas about interventions that can be combined and integrated into more comprehensive well programs. …Faculty Health in Academic Medicine provides a useful foundation for a new field of study into faculty wellness.” (Larry D. Gruppen, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 302 (12), September, 2009)

Editors and Affiliations

  • McGovern Center for Health, Humanities, and the Human Spirit, University of Texas-Houston Medical School, Houston

    Thomas R. Cole

  • Department of Behavioral Science, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston

    Thelma Jean Goodrich, Ellen R. Gritz

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