Faculty Health in Academic Medicine

• The Context of Concern for Faculty Health.- Examination of Faculty Health.- Epidemiology.- Causes and Treatment of Impairment and Burnout in Physicians: The Epidemic Within.- Measuring and Maintaining Faculty Health.- Personal and Social Dimensions.- The Architecture of Alignment: Leadership and the Psychological Health of Faculty.- The Career Management Life Cycle: A Model for Supporting and Sustaining Faculty Vitality and Wellness.- Faculty Resilience and Career Development: Strategies for Strengthening Academic Medicine.- Diverse Academic Faculty: A Precious Resource for Innovative Institutions.- Perspectives from the Humanities and Interpretive Social Science.- Organizational Culture and Its Consequences.- The Ethics of Self-Care.- Faculty Health and the Crisis of Meaning: Humanistic Diagnosis and Treatment.- Retaining and Reclaiming the Call of Medicine.- Supports and Interventions.- A Model for Designing and Developing a Faculty Health Program: The M. D. Anderson Experience.- Fostering Faculty Well-Being Through Personal, Community, and Cultural Formation at an Academic Medical Center: Indiana University School of Medicine as a Case Study.- Conflict Resolution in an Academic Medical Center: The Ombuds Office.- Preserving Principal: Programming for Faculty Health and Well-Being.- Conclusion.- Faculty Health: A New Field of Inquiry and Programming.

From the reviews: "Faculty Health in Academic Medicine: Physicians, Scientists, and the Pressures of Success begins by documenting startling levels of burnout in academic medical centers. ... psychologists figure prominently in this volume should make it interesting for other psychologists in academic medical centers. ... it also suggests the prominent role that psychology can play in helping to improve the quality of care, and the quality of life, for both patients and faculty in America's academic medical centers." (Scott Temple, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 54 (33), August, 2009) "Provides useful and instructive clarification of the often bewildering array of variables and factors that impinges on the wellness of faculty. ... Readers will find a variety of stimulating ideas about interventions that can be combined and integrated into more comprehensive well programs. ...Faculty Health in Academic Medicine provides a useful foundation for a new field of study into faculty wellness." (Larry D. Gruppen, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 302 (12), September, 2009)