Positive Medicine with Jordyn Feingold, MD

What is positive psychology and more importantly, how can it be applied to work and life? In this week's episode, Sonya sat down with Jordyn Feingold, an MD, Master's in Applied Positive Psychology, and psychiatry resident at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. They talked about positive psychology and how she's applying it to medicine, her REVAMP framework, the importance of positive relationships, and more. REVAMP is defined as a 6-pillar framework consisting of Relationships, Engagement, Vitality, Accomplishment, Meaning, and Positive emotions.

Jordyn developed and teaches an elective course called Positive Medicine at Mount Sinai and co-founded a trainee well-being curriculum called PEERS: Practice Enhancement, Engagement, Resilience, and Support. She also co-founded Positive Psychology for Physicians and an online well-being course for clinicians. She co-authored the book “Choose Growth: A Workbook for Transcending Trauma, Fear and Self-Doubt” with Scott Barry Kaufman (you can listen to the recent podcast with Jordyn and Scott here). She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with her BA and Master of Applied Positive Psychology. Her goal is to shift the focus of medicine from treatment to well-being.

Key Takeaways:

• What is positive psychology
• How positive psych and medicine can be related 
• REVAMP framework - a six-ingredient framework consisting of relationships, engagement, vitality, accomplishment, meaning, and positive emotions
• Importance of positive relationships
• Focusing on what I’m doing vs how I’m doing
• Reciprocity ring
• Where to start when you're starting from a place of burnout

Links:

• Learn more about Jordyn
• Listen to my recent podcast with Jordyn and Scott Barry Kaufman
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