#075 Why Physicians Are Leaving Their Practices An Interview With Dr. Jen Barna

In today’s episode of Hello Hot Flash, I introduce us to CEO and founder of Doc Working, Dr. Jen Barna. We discuss the importance of normalizing coaching for healthcare professionals with a focus on preventing burnout and improving self-care. Dr. Barna shares her experience with coaching to find work-life balance and growth in her career and emphasizes the need for continuity in support and resources throughout one's career. 

The conversation highlights the disconnect in healthcare between professionals and patients, and how both parties need to work together to combat the pressure of meeting schedules and deadlines that has created a stressful environment in the industry. Dr. Barna emphasizes the need for values-based decision-making and resilience in the healthcare profession, and how coaching can help build these skills to improve everyday life.

With a focus on health and wellness, Dr. Barna offers valuable advice on taking action toward success and focusing on one's values to make decisions during times of overwhelm. Listeners can get in touch with Dr. Barna at the contact information shared in the podcast to learn more about Doc Working's evidence-based coaching programs that help alleviate stress and accelerate success for physicians.

 

Timestamps

[00:00:02] Preventing Burnout Among Healthcare Professionals

[00:04:11] Coaching for physician burnout and work-life balance

[00:08:27] Building Resilience in Healthcare Workers

[00:12:34] Importance of Normalizing Coaching for Physicians

[00:16:38] Overcoming Self-Care Guilt

[00:20:24] Finding fulfillment through coaching

[00:24:06] Support for physicians and patients

[00:31:46] Prioritizing Values & Taking Action for Success

 

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Jen Barna MD is a board-certified practicing radiologist, and founder and CEO of DocWorking, a company that helps physicians and other healthcare professionals maximize meaning and purpose in life both in and out of work, by combining expert coaching, peer support communities, and highly interactive courses that have maximum impact using a minimum amount of time. By providing ongoing support to physicians, advanced practitioners and healthcare teams via DocWorking programs, healthcare organizations improve recruitment and retention, thereby improving patient care while decreasing the high costs of employee turnover. 

 

Dr. Barna is also the co-host of DocWorking: The Whole Physician Podcast, now ranked on multiple lists as a top physician podcast. She earned her MD and completed her Diagnostic Radiology residency at the University of Tennessee School of Medicine. She earned a masters degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology from Washington University in St. Louis, and her undergraduate degree from Stony

 Brook University in New York. She is the mom of two successful young adults, both born while she was a medical student. Prior to medical school, she worked as a physician recruiter, and later owned a boutique physician recruiting firm. She started DocWorking to help physicians stay in the driver’s seat of their own lives.

 

https://docworking.com/

https://www.instagram.com/docworking1/

http://facebook.com/DocWorkingThrive

http://linkedin.com/company/docworking/

 

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Balanced to Burnout Continuum
• Seven Things To Do When You Feel Stressed