Academic and Research Skills
Career Development
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Health Services Research
Leadership and Business Training
Medical Education
Mental Health
Wellness and Well-being
Trainee
Sylvia Lim, MD (she/her/hers)
Associate Professor of Pediatrics/Associate Fellowship Director of AGP
The Children's Hospital at Montefiore
Bronx, New York, United States
Samudragupta Bora, PhD
Founding Director, Health Services Research Center & Associate Professor, Pediatrics
University Hospitals Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Ariella Slovin, MD (she/her/hers)
Instructor of Pediatrics
Mass General for Children- Harvard Medical School
Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Workshop Description: A growing body of high-quality scientific evidence recognizes the challenges of improving the professional well-being of faculty and trainees in pediatrics. The Effort-Reward Imbalance model, an influential theoretical framework in organizational behavior, helps to explain this in part. This model states that our level of work engagement (an important predictor of professional well-being) is determined by the balance between the effort we put into our jobs and the rewards we receive. Engaging meaningfully with what we do and why we do it leads to a sense of accomplishment and fulfillment, which improves effort-reward balance. These concepts collectively refer to the construct of joy at work, a phrase that has quickly gained traction in the workplace, including academic medicine. Improving professional well-being in academic medicine by increasing joy at work is important because it can lead to increased career satisfaction, a safer work environment, higher patient satisfaction, and a decrease in faculty turnover. This workshop uses a structured approach that incorporates evidence-based resources to improve joy at work while pursuing a fulfilling academic career in pediatrics, regardless of career stage.
