Culture & Inclusion Faculty Development Sessions 2024-25: Motherhood, Medicine, Burnout
Dept of Medicine, Culture & Inclusion: Faculty Development Sessions 2024-25
Title: Motherhood, Medicine, Burnout
Date: October 1st, 2024 @ 12pm
Location: Zoom
Session Overview:
*Mothers who are also physicians face unique challenges to thriving. When societal expectations of motherhood success overlap with medical career expectations of success, comparison, perfectionism, and loss of self-compassion can result.
This experiential workshop aims to reframe the way mother-doctors view success by sharing 3 hard won lessons from a former burnt out mother-doctor-now life coach.
This event is open to all faculty and medical trainees.
*can refer to anyone who identifies with a primary caregiving role.
Objectives:
- Explore societal expectations for "the good mother" vs. "the good doctor"
- Identify 3 key lessons that can help mother-doctors stuck in a cycle of burnout
Facilitator Bio:
Dr. Dawn Lim (she/her) is a staff emergency physician and assistant professor at the University Health Network. She is a photo essayist and life coach particularly interested in changing the culture of shame in motherhood and medicine. She uses the power of stories to work with doctors and teams facing burnout. You can click here to sign up for her weekly blog on helping fellow mother-doctors thrive.
You can connect with Dawn to further the conversations!
Please click here to register for this event. A Zoom link and calendar invite will be sent to registrants.