Career Development: Deciding and Moving Forward

Career Development: Deciding and Moving Forward FREE GUIDE: 10 TIPS TO DEAL WITH STRESS Medical PostHelping Hand Column, 2011 #3 FREE GUIDE: 10 TIPS TO DEAL WITH STRESS Mamta Gautam is an Ottawa psychiatrist who specializes in treating physician patients. If you have...

Career Development: Assessment and Exploration

Career Development: Assessment and Exploration FREE GUIDE: 10 TIPS TO DEAL WITH STRESS Medical PostHelping Hand Column, 2011 #2 Medicine has been a rich and rewarding career.  Yet, lately, you have started to feel restless, recognizing that work seems to be less...

Successfully Managing Your Career in Medicine

Successfully Managing Your Career in Medicine FREE GUIDE: 10 TIPS TO DEAL WITH STRESS Medical PostHelping Hand Column, 2011 #1 We have all taken a distinct path to becoming a physician. Some of us knew from the very start that this is what we wanted to be when we grew...

Resilient Physicians Deserve Resilient Medical Systems

Resilient Physicians Deserve Resilient Medical Systems FREE GUIDE: 10 TIPS TO DEAL WITH STRESS Medical PostHelping Hand Column, November, 2010 Attempting to define the dimensions of resilience in physicians in past columns has been an enriching experience.  Instead of...

A Resilient Physician Cares for Self

A Resilient Physician Cares for Self FREE GUIDE: 10 TIPS TO DEAL WITH STRESS Medical PostHelping Hand Column, October, 2010 Caring for others is inherent in being a physician.  This is what we do best – it is intuitive for us, we are trained to do this, and it is our...

A Resilient Doctor is a Calm Doctor

A Resilient Doctor is a Calm Doctor FREE GUIDE: 10 TIPS TO DEAL WITH STRESS Medical PostHelping Hand Column, September, 2010 We all know them – the doctors who can be in the midst of turbulence and chaos, and manage to stay calm. These are the colleagues at work whom...

A Resilient Doctor is a Committed Doctor

A Resilient Doctor is a Committed Doctor FREE GUIDE: 10 TIPS TO DEAL WITH STRESS Medical PostHelping Hand Column, July, 2010 As doctors, we choose to enter the medical profession because we want to make a difference.  We can easily recall that dream we had as a...

Resilient Doctors are Connected Doctors

Resilient Doctors are Connected Doctors FREE GUIDE: 10 TIPS TO DEAL WITH STRESS Medical PostHelping Hand Column, May, 2010 In my training as a child psychiatrist, I recall reading with great interest about Donald Winnicott’s conceptualization of the psychic space...

Do I Need an MBA?

Do I Need an MBA? FREE GUIDE: 10 TIPS TO DEAL WITH STRESS Coach’s CornerCSPE Newsletter, May 2010 I am just returning from the Canadian Conference on Physician Leadership, held in Toronto in April.  It was an excellent conference – highly practical,...