Sunday Feb 25, 2024

Ep. 8 - How Doctors can Harness Stress and Avoid Burnout

Learn invaluable skills to help you take control of your stress in this insightful discussion with Stress Coach Bernadette Dancy.

Topics we discuss:

Bernie’s personal experience with burnout and how it led her to becoming a stress coach.
Bernie’s invaluable experience working with athletes and how it relates to helping medics manage stress.
Defining stress, burnout and overwhelm and the science of how these experiences affect us.
The science of stress and behaviour change and how we can apply it to managing our daily challenges.
How do we know when to seek help to prevent becoming unwell from chronic stress
Doctors as patients. How medicine cultivates the belief that doctors should be at lower risk than their patients for susceptibility to disease.
The balance of personal responsibility and workplace duties of care.
Practical ways medics can prevent burnout and manage their stress right away - using a visual tool.