Operate with Zen
While incredibly rewarding and honored vocations, careers in medicine and surgery are fraught with stress, burnout and challenges in work-life balance. OWZ is intended to open dialogue about a mindful approach to surgery - to create a space where physicians and surgeons can enhance their life's work and life experience with a focus on presence, purpose and practical skills. OWZ combines didactic-like monologues to provide baseline information and available scientific data on practical topics like time management, sleep hygiene and burnout; as well as interviews with surgeons and experts to share what works and doesn't work in their daily routines.
Operate with Zen
33. Promoting a Surgical Community through Mentorship with Dr. Kirsten Greene
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Phil Pierorazio
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Season 3
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Episode 11
Many of us can remember mentors who shaped our careers and are responsible for the situations in which we currently work or reside. Kirsten Greene, MD (Twitter: KGUROmd) discusses many of the wonderful mentors she experienced through her evolution from a general surgery intern at UCSF to the Chair of Urology at the University of Virginia. Strong examples of female and male mentors are offered, concepts of mentoring up as well as down are discussed, and creating a community of surgeons interested in each other and our collective well-being is brought forth. (Music Credit: Sunshine, Simon Jomphe Lepine.)