AMA STEPS Forward® podcast American Medical Assn

Dr. Michael Ivy, trauma surgeon and Chief Medical Officer at Gaylord Specialty Healthcare, shares his personal experience with burnout and depression that ultimately led him to contemplate taking his own life. He also shares insights for combatting the lingering stigma around asking for help in the culture of medicine.

The 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, across the United States.

More Resources:
Explore the Preventing Physician Suicide toolkit: https://bit.ly/4bYQpBP
Explore the After a Physician Suicide toolkit: https://bit.ly/3yEstFz
Explore the Collective Trauma toolkit: https://bit.ly/4c3e9Ff

Dr. Linda Brubaker, Director of Physician Wellness at University of California San Diego, and Dr. Nicole Goldhaber, Surgical Resident at University of California San Diego, share how they’ve worked to reduce unnecessary mandatory training burden at their organization.

Read Mountains of Modules: Assessment and Redesign of Online Mandatory Training to Promote Physician Wellness and Reduce Burnout: https://bit.ly/3WOfxXV

Dr. Stephen Grubbs, oncologist and Vice President of the American Society of Clinical Oncology’s (ASCO) Clinical Affairs Department, joins guest host Dr. Sea Chen to discuss what the ASCO hopes to achieve through joining the Behavioral Health Integration Collaborative, a group dedicated to catalyzing effective and sustainable integration of behavioral and mental health care into physician practices.

Explore the BHI Collaborative’s Compendium here: https://bit.ly/3rmQCgP
Explore the BHI webinars here: https://bit.ly/3SExup3
Explore ASCO guidelines about advanced cancer patient behavior health: https://bit.ly/3WEl5nL
Explore ASCO guidelines for anxiety and depression: https://bit.ly/4bEe0I1

Dr. Jeannine Engel, internal medicine physician and Associate Professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, describes the most recent billing and coding documentation guidelines and offers solutions to reduce note bloat and other documentation inefficiencies.

Explore the Simplified Outpatient Documentation and Coding toolkit: https://bit.ly/3P3cczn

AMA Member Dr. Jennifer Thomas, family medicine physician and Medical Director of Morris Hospital's Integrated Behavioral Health Program, shares her success story integrating behavioral health into her practice using a collaborative care model.

Explore the BHI Collaborative’s Compendium here: https://bit.ly/3rmQCgP
Explore the BHI webinars here: https://bit.ly/3SExup3
Register for the upcoming webinar How Integrated Behavioral Health Can Strengthen Value-Based Care: https://bit.ly/3QytIfu
Learn more about the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA): https://bit.ly/3wA2vlY
Learn more about Morris Hospital's Integrated Behavioral Health: https://bit.ly/4dFrC7C

Dr. Mark Bauer, Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. JoAnn Kirchner, past Director of the Veterans Healthcare Administration Behavioral Health Quality Enhancement Research Initiative and staff at Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System and Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, discuss how physicians and other health care leaders can better translate research into practice using implementation science frameworks.

Explore the De-Implementation Checklist here: https://bit.ly/3CLoTIR
Explore the Change Management and Organizational Development Toolkit: https://bit.ly/49UXG4t
Explore the AMA's practice transformation research: https://bit.ly/49YFRRV