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Feb 27th, 2024 19m

This is “Finding Joy: The Health Care Professional’s Journey to Wellness and Resiliency.” It’s a podcast resource developed by a team of interprofessional education researchers from Washington State University Health Sciences Spokane. They’re p

Recreating Community within the Healthcare Workforce to Address Organizational Burnout

Feb 20th, 2024 12m 20s

Andrea Durst is a Medical Social Worker at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center. While focused on helping patients and families address their needs during the pandemic, many healthcare professionals are navigating ways to reestablish connecti

The Health Worker Crisis Is Real and How We Can Act Now to Avoid a Health Care Catastrophe

Jan 10th, 2024 18m 45s

Shauna Hill, LICSW, Cofounder and CEO of mental health media and education company, StateChange, is a Vermont-based neuroscience educator and trauma psychotherapist with decades of experience in family, community, and behavioral health. Shauna

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Nov 29th, 2023 16m 55s

Peggy Odegard, PharmD, honed a simple technique for overcoming workplace burnout in the healthcare field as a practicing pharmacist and Vice Dean at the UW School of Pharmacy. Dr. Odegard focuses on being aware of both her personal values and p

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Oct 24th, 2023 18m 45s

What Happened When One Doctor Reimagined the Hippocratic Oath by Focusing on the Well-being of Health Care Professionals

Sep 12th, 2023 19m 48s

Mukta Panda, MD, MACP, FRCP-London, award-winning physician, speaker, and facilitator as well as Professor of Medicine and the Assistant Dean for Well-being and Student Education at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, brought the wisdom

Leaning Into Difficult Conversations, Increasing Representation, and Reducing Inequities In Medicine

Aug 29th, 2023 19m 38s

Practicing doctor, Jabraan Pasha, MD, FACP, talks with Finding Joy about the work he is doing around inequities in the American medical system. Dr. Pasha’s proximity to healthcare as a child led to his becoming a doctor as an adult. Among many

“Finding Joy Practicing Rural Town Family Medicine”

Aug 15th, 2023 15m 4s

Dr. Tessa Reinke joined the Finding Joy podcast to share what it is like to be a “country doctor.” She met her husband while in medical school on the east coast. They settled down in a small town in Washington, partially because the rural aspec

What One Doctor Did When He Was Called Upon to Build a Thriving Health Care Community From Scratch

Aug 1st, 2023 17m 58s

How would you go about designing a medical school if given the opportunity? Dr. George Novan is one of the founders of and continues to teach at Washington State University’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. Dr. Novan finds that the presence

Finding Joy and Purpose Through Connection

Jul 18th, 2023 15m 21s

Dr. Nanci Murphy, a pharmacist and retired Associate Dean at the University of Washington, and Dr. Tricia Cheung, a Pharmacist at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, WA, discuss the concept of ikigai, which translates to “reason for being.” They

Examining How One Clinical Professor Finds Balance in the Emergency Room

Jul 5th, 2023 16m 44s

Working two emergency room shifts a month helps this professor keep his clinical skills sharp. Carl Heine is the Associate Dean for Clinical Education at Washington State University’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and an emergency room phy

Evidence-based Wellness – A Physician’s Journey

Jun 13th, 2023 16m 50s

Is compassion-focused mindfulness the antidote to the stress experienced by health professionals? Dr. Dawn DeWitt is a Professor and Senior Associate Dean for the Washington State University College of Medicine’s Collaboration for Interprofessi

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May 31st, 2022 12m 20s

Fostering Connection Through Diversity Unites Nursing Students During the Global Pandemic

May 17th, 2022 19m

Sue McFadden is a Nurse Practitioner and Associate Professor in the Washington State University (WSU) College of Nursing in Spokane. During the pandemic, she was matched with a new group of nine students whose class time was facilitated via Zoo

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Cultivating Connection: Peer Coaching Among Physicians and Clinicians

Apr 15th, 2022 17m 6s

Dr. Sara Tamarin, a pediatrician at the Everett Clinic, shares her impetus for pioneering a peer coaching program among physicians and other clinicians to address internalized self-concepts such as imposter syndrome, self-judgement, comparison,

CHAS Health: An Exemplar of Innovating Fun in the Workplace to Support Wellbeing

Mar 31st, 2022 15m 12s

Kelley Charvet, Chief Administrative Officer, and Alyssa Egland, Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, both from Community Health Association of Spokane (CHAS) Health, reflect on the organization’s growth since its inception in 1994 as a two exam

Student Perspectives on Health Sciences Education During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Mar 15th, 2022 19m 18s

Health Science students Andriene Sterlington (MSW), Eastern Washington University School of Social Work and Diana Kang (PharmD), Washington State University’s College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences share their academic backgrounds, lea

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Feb 28th, 2022 17m 28s

Linda Eddy and Vicki Denson, WSU-Vancouver College of Nursing Administrators, share their journey to becoming faculty members, connecting with mentors involved in university leadership, and transitioning into leadership positions and becoming m

The Evolution of Medical Education During a Global Pandemic

Feb 15th, 2022 18m 19s

Students Adithya Vegeraju (Class of 2024) and Ravneet Waraich (Class of 2022) share their experiences to, and in, medical school at Washington State University’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and how they adapted during the COVID-19 global

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Jan 31st, 2022 17m 19s

Dr. Luis Manriquez, MD, Community Health Equity Director at Washington State University, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, describes his experiences serving patients and teaching learners across the health sciences. Dr. Manriquez shares his p

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Jan 15th, 2022 16m 28s

Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) and Women’s Health Nurse Practitioner, Deanna Diulio, discusses the joys and difficulties of delivering infants during the COVID-19 pandemic. She shares her experiences acclimating to changing restrictions on birth

Destressing and the Value of Team Members

Nov 16th, 2021 11m 56s

In the final episode of Season 1, Dr. Katie Schmidt grew up in the Detroit area, but her studies as a medical student brought her to Providence Medical Group in Mukilteo, Washington, where she learned under Dr. Katherine Bumstead. Katie has lea

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Nov 10th, 2021 14m 6s

Dr. Janet Walker, current president of the National Balint Society, is a retired family physician who spent 20 years in the Air Force, before facilitating and teaching Balint groups for healthcare professionals and medical students like Morgan