Career Fit 2.0: Exploring Meaning in Work to Develop a Career Fit Action Plan to Promote Professional Well-Being

Sunday, May 5, 2024

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM ET

Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre: 703

CE: Live CME: 1.5

Leader(s)

AS

Ariella Slovin, MD (she/her/hers)

Primary Care Attending, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, GW SMHS, Associate Director Pediatrics Clerkship, GW SMHS
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Washington DC, District of Columbia, United States

Slides

Co-Leader(s)

Samudragupta Bora, PhD

Founding Director, Health Services Research Center; Associate Professor, Pediatrics
UH Rainbow Babies & Children's Hospital
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Janet Serwint, MD (she/her/hers)

Professor Emerita of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Johns Hopkins Children's Center
Glen Arm, Maryland, United States
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Sylvia Lim, MD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Pediatrics/Associate Director of Academic General Pediatrics Fellowship
The Children's Hospital at Montefiore
Bronx, New York, United States

Disclosure(s):

Ariella T. Slovin, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Samudragupta Bora, PhD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Janet R. Serwint, MD: HRSA (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Consultant); Kravitt Foundation (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Consultant); NICHD (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Consultant); Pediatrics in Review, AAP, Assoc Editor (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Board Member or Executive Role)

Sylvia W. Lim, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Workshop

Description: “Career Fit,” a term highlighted by Shanafelt et al. as the alignment of assigned time for professional activities with meaningful work, has been identified as a determinant of physician well-being. Based on data from APA membership, facilitators of this workshop have expanded on this to conceptualize Global Career Fit and Activity-Specific Career Fit as part of an innovative career development framework through which academic pediatric faculty can evaluate the make-up of their career composition to achieve improved professional well-being.

Just as a thorough clinical assessment of a patient is required before developing a management plan, we must also take time to assess our current career components before developing a plan for career improvement. To this end, this workshop will build on last year’s “Optimizing Career-Fit to Promote Professional Well-Being” workshop by further exploring the concept of meaningful work.

Part one of the workshop will examine the current state of participants’ Career Fit by identifying the meaningfulness of various components of their professional responsibilities while considering the time spent on those components. Part two will utilize the Organizational Psychology framework of “job crafting” to help participants create an action plan for improving Global and Activity-Specific Career Fit. Job crafting is defined as tailoring one’s professional responsibilities to better align with their interests, strengths, and meaningful work. Participants will utilize job crafting strategies to identify steps to increase time spent on previously identified meaningful work components, leaving the workshop with a Career Fit action plan they can act upon within three months.

Learning Objectives:

Describe the most meaningful components of their professional responsibilities through reflective exercise utilizing the Global and Activity-Specific Career Fit tool.
Identify actionable strategies to improve Career Fit through job crafting techniques.
Develop a Career Fit action plan to improve the alignment of meaningful work with assigned time for professional responsibilities.