Prescribing Balance: Time Management Strategies for 2024 (for Ethics Credit)!

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Prescribing Balance: Time Management Strategies for 2024

FACULTY:

Dina Tom, MD, is a pediatric hospitalist at University Hospital.  She’s passionate about finding balance and time management strategies and teaches a course on this at the University of Texas Health Science Center.

 

OVERVIEW:

Pediatrics Now Host and Executive Producer Holly Wayment talks with Dina Tom, MD, on how to manage our time effectively while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. Reflecting on concepts from James Clear's highly acclaimed book "Atomic Habits", the conversation underscores the importance of developing habits.

 

Challenging aspects of the medical profession, such as demanding schedules, the expectations of constant availability, and burnout are candidly discussed. Simultaneously, we explore methods to address these challenges by seizing control of your time to accomplish tasks that you truly find meaningful.

 

The episode further chronicles the personal journey of Dr. Tom, a Lozano-Long Presidential Scholar, in juggling her roles as a medical student then, and now, a teaching physician, hospitalist, wife, daughter and mother. We delve into her struggle and success with time management, making this episode a beacon of hope for harmonious personal and professional life.

 

DISCLOSURES:

Dina Tom, MD has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

 

The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat, MD, PhD, Steven Seidner, MD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. 

 

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio and Deepak Kamat, MD course director and content reviewer for the activity, have reviewed all financial disclosure information for all speakers, facilitators, and planning committee members; and determined and resolved all conflicts of interests.

 

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION STATEMENTS:

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

 

The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 0.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

CREDITS: AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (0.75) Non-Physician Participation Credit (0.75)

Texas Medical Board of Ethics (0.75)