Episode 84 - Dr. Mark Martinez - How to Negotiate Your Wellbeing - Part 3

In this episode, Dr. Rui Ariyapala welcomes back with Dr.  Mark Martinez, who is a native New Yorker practicing Emergency Medicine at Baptist Health South Florida in Miami. He attended medical school at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn before completing his residency in Emergency Medicine at Albert Einstein/Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. Dr. Martinez recently graduated with a Masters in Industrial Organizational Psychology at Florida International University, and he shares how he developed his approach to preventing and mitigating physician burnout and discusses the utility of ‘Participative Management’. Dr. Martinez had practiced physician coaching for several years focusing on wellness and personal development. The motivation for all of that was a difficult and protracted personal battle with burnout and mental illness. Aside from practicing emergency medicine Dr. Martinez is currently working as a consultant for the FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, developing a more evidence-based and specific approach to medical student selection. 

In this episode we discuss all the non-clinical aspects of attending life, including knowing your professional and financial self-worth, when negotiating contracts. Dr. Martinez articulates the difference between monetary wealth and abundance. He further explains the highs and lows of being an attending physician, and how we must empower ourselves with knowledge to prepare for scenarios that you cannot learn in a medical textbook.

Feel free to check out part 1 (Episode 62) which introduces Dr. Martinez’s background in Emergency Medicine and pragmatic residency wellness tools for burnout and part 2 (Episode 83) focusing on the clinical and administrative responsibility of an attending physician.