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Advice on Achieving Work-Life Balance
Successfully maintaining a balance between your personal and professional lives is a difficult concept to grasp and practice to enforce. Is this thing called “work-life balance” within reach or just some elusive circumstance people talk about? The AGA Community Early Career Group was the hub for discussions on ways early-career gastroenterologists can modify their day-to-day approach to help prevent burnout.
We consolidated the advice and tips shared into a series of articles and resources to help students, trainees, and early career members get a little closer to balancing their work and professional lives. Here are some highlights:
Choose work-life “integration”
If your career and your personal life were a successful relationship, remember that it’s not always 50/50, and be sure to allow forgiveness and reparation when needed.
Maternity leave
When it comes to starting a family, think about your current training or career climate and how you can make it work. Be transparent with your supervisor so there aren’t any surprises, and plans can be made in advance to cover for your time away. Prepare to be flexible from the beginning.
Learn when to say “no”
Saying “yes” to too many things not only leads to overextending yourself beyond your capabilities, but you could also be losing time on what is important to you. Choose one night a week when you can work late – pack a snack, and give yourself a hard stop the rest of the week. Keep patient documentation as a daytime/work task.
Communication is key
When your partner or spouse is just as busy, it’s important to keep a joint calendar up to date and make plans far in advance. Also, create a routine: Try making time once a month to discuss calendars and anticipated events, face-to-face. When life throws a divot in your path, don’t lose sight of your priorities.
Make time for family and friends
Your career can take over as much of your life as you will allow. Making time for family and friends is rewarding and vacations, staycations, long weekends or even day trips can be great “resets.”
View the tip sheet and other work-life balance resources in the AGA Community Early Career Group library at http://community.gastro.org/WorkLife.
New Clinical Guidelines and Practice Updates
The latest AGA Clinical Practice Guideline, published in Gastroenterology, is on the role of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) in the management of IBD. It focuses on the application of TDM for biologic therapy, specifically anti-tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF) agents, and for thiopurines, and addresses questions on the risks and benefits of reactive TDM, routine proactive TDM, or no TDM in guiding treatment changes.
View the full guideline, technical review, and patient guide at www.gastro.org/guidelines.
In addition to guidelines, please check out the most recent Clinical Practice Updates (CPU) in Gastroenterology and Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (CGH), which are often accompanied by a practice quiz from one of the authors, via the AGA Community. Visit http://community.gastro.org/guidelinecpu to test your knowledge. The most recent CPU, published in the September issue of CGH, focuses on GI side effects related to opioid medications.
Be Part of the Meeting to Transform IBD
If you treat patients with inflammatory bowel disease, conduct IBD research, or plan to pursue a career in IBD, join us for the inaugural Crohn’s & Colitis Congress™, taking place Jan. 18-20, 2018, in Las Vegas, NV. The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation (formerly CCFA) and AGA have joined together to develop a must-attend program for the entire IBD care team. Expand your knowledge, network with your peers as well as IBD leaders across multiple disciplines, and get inspired to improve care for patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
You may also be interested in the free precongress workshop – The Lloyd Mayer, MD, Young IBD Investigators Clinical, Basic, and Translational Research Workshop. This half-day precongress workshop is targeted to early-career clinical, basic, and translational researchers as well as senior researchers and will feature a mix of research presentations by young investigator colleagues, keynote presentations, and panel discussion, featuring established IBD researchers. The theme this year is focused around grant proposals and will include two mock grant review sessions.
Learn more about the Crohn’s & Colitis Congress and register: http://crohnscolitiscongress.org.
Advice on Achieving Work-Life Balance
Successfully maintaining a balance between your personal and professional lives is a difficult concept to grasp and practice to enforce. Is this thing called “work-life balance” within reach or just some elusive circumstance people talk about? The AGA Community Early Career Group was the hub for discussions on ways early-career gastroenterologists can modify their day-to-day approach to help prevent burnout.
We consolidated the advice and tips shared into a series of articles and resources to help students, trainees, and early career members get a little closer to balancing their work and professional lives. Here are some highlights:
Choose work-life “integration”
If your career and your personal life were a successful relationship, remember that it’s not always 50/50, and be sure to allow forgiveness and reparation when needed.
Maternity leave
When it comes to starting a family, think about your current training or career climate and how you can make it work. Be transparent with your supervisor so there aren’t any surprises, and plans can be made in advance to cover for your time away. Prepare to be flexible from the beginning.
Learn when to say “no”
Saying “yes” to too many things not only leads to overextending yourself beyond your capabilities, but you could also be losing time on what is important to you. Choose one night a week when you can work late – pack a snack, and give yourself a hard stop the rest of the week. Keep patient documentation as a daytime/work task.
Communication is key
When your partner or spouse is just as busy, it’s important to keep a joint calendar up to date and make plans far in advance. Also, create a routine: Try making time once a month to discuss calendars and anticipated events, face-to-face. When life throws a divot in your path, don’t lose sight of your priorities.
Make time for family and friends
Your career can take over as much of your life as you will allow. Making time for family and friends is rewarding and vacations, staycations, long weekends or even day trips can be great “resets.”
View the tip sheet and other work-life balance resources in the AGA Community Early Career Group library at http://community.gastro.org/WorkLife.
New Clinical Guidelines and Practice Updates
The latest AGA Clinical Practice Guideline, published in Gastroenterology, is on the role of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) in the management of IBD. It focuses on the application of TDM for biologic therapy, specifically anti-tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF) agents, and for thiopurines, and addresses questions on the risks and benefits of reactive TDM, routine proactive TDM, or no TDM in guiding treatment changes.
View the full guideline, technical review, and patient guide at www.gastro.org/guidelines.
In addition to guidelines, please check out the most recent Clinical Practice Updates (CPU) in Gastroenterology and Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (CGH), which are often accompanied by a practice quiz from one of the authors, via the AGA Community. Visit http://community.gastro.org/guidelinecpu to test your knowledge. The most recent CPU, published in the September issue of CGH, focuses on GI side effects related to opioid medications.
Be Part of the Meeting to Transform IBD
If you treat patients with inflammatory bowel disease, conduct IBD research, or plan to pursue a career in IBD, join us for the inaugural Crohn’s & Colitis Congress™, taking place Jan. 18-20, 2018, in Las Vegas, NV. The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation (formerly CCFA) and AGA have joined together to develop a must-attend program for the entire IBD care team. Expand your knowledge, network with your peers as well as IBD leaders across multiple disciplines, and get inspired to improve care for patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
You may also be interested in the free precongress workshop – The Lloyd Mayer, MD, Young IBD Investigators Clinical, Basic, and Translational Research Workshop. This half-day precongress workshop is targeted to early-career clinical, basic, and translational researchers as well as senior researchers and will feature a mix of research presentations by young investigator colleagues, keynote presentations, and panel discussion, featuring established IBD researchers. The theme this year is focused around grant proposals and will include two mock grant review sessions.
Learn more about the Crohn’s & Colitis Congress and register: http://crohnscolitiscongress.org.
Advice on Achieving Work-Life Balance
Successfully maintaining a balance between your personal and professional lives is a difficult concept to grasp and practice to enforce. Is this thing called “work-life balance” within reach or just some elusive circumstance people talk about? The AGA Community Early Career Group was the hub for discussions on ways early-career gastroenterologists can modify their day-to-day approach to help prevent burnout.
We consolidated the advice and tips shared into a series of articles and resources to help students, trainees, and early career members get a little closer to balancing their work and professional lives. Here are some highlights:
Choose work-life “integration”
If your career and your personal life were a successful relationship, remember that it’s not always 50/50, and be sure to allow forgiveness and reparation when needed.
Maternity leave
When it comes to starting a family, think about your current training or career climate and how you can make it work. Be transparent with your supervisor so there aren’t any surprises, and plans can be made in advance to cover for your time away. Prepare to be flexible from the beginning.
Learn when to say “no”
Saying “yes” to too many things not only leads to overextending yourself beyond your capabilities, but you could also be losing time on what is important to you. Choose one night a week when you can work late – pack a snack, and give yourself a hard stop the rest of the week. Keep patient documentation as a daytime/work task.
Communication is key
When your partner or spouse is just as busy, it’s important to keep a joint calendar up to date and make plans far in advance. Also, create a routine: Try making time once a month to discuss calendars and anticipated events, face-to-face. When life throws a divot in your path, don’t lose sight of your priorities.
Make time for family and friends
Your career can take over as much of your life as you will allow. Making time for family and friends is rewarding and vacations, staycations, long weekends or even day trips can be great “resets.”
View the tip sheet and other work-life balance resources in the AGA Community Early Career Group library at http://community.gastro.org/WorkLife.
New Clinical Guidelines and Practice Updates
The latest AGA Clinical Practice Guideline, published in Gastroenterology, is on the role of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) in the management of IBD. It focuses on the application of TDM for biologic therapy, specifically anti-tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF) agents, and for thiopurines, and addresses questions on the risks and benefits of reactive TDM, routine proactive TDM, or no TDM in guiding treatment changes.
View the full guideline, technical review, and patient guide at www.gastro.org/guidelines.
In addition to guidelines, please check out the most recent Clinical Practice Updates (CPU) in Gastroenterology and Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology (CGH), which are often accompanied by a practice quiz from one of the authors, via the AGA Community. Visit http://community.gastro.org/guidelinecpu to test your knowledge. The most recent CPU, published in the September issue of CGH, focuses on GI side effects related to opioid medications.
Be Part of the Meeting to Transform IBD
If you treat patients with inflammatory bowel disease, conduct IBD research, or plan to pursue a career in IBD, join us for the inaugural Crohn’s & Colitis Congress™, taking place Jan. 18-20, 2018, in Las Vegas, NV. The Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation (formerly CCFA) and AGA have joined together to develop a must-attend program for the entire IBD care team. Expand your knowledge, network with your peers as well as IBD leaders across multiple disciplines, and get inspired to improve care for patients with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.
You may also be interested in the free precongress workshop – The Lloyd Mayer, MD, Young IBD Investigators Clinical, Basic, and Translational Research Workshop. This half-day precongress workshop is targeted to early-career clinical, basic, and translational researchers as well as senior researchers and will feature a mix of research presentations by young investigator colleagues, keynote presentations, and panel discussion, featuring established IBD researchers. The theme this year is focused around grant proposals and will include two mock grant review sessions.
Learn more about the Crohn’s & Colitis Congress and register: http://crohnscolitiscongress.org.