Understanding Fern EPC’s Coaching Method
A variety of coaching modalities provide support and empowerment to individuals and teams seeking transformation. Our method stands head and shoulders above the others for its effectiveness in assisting doctors and healthcare executives., especially when dealing with physician burnout. And it’s all because we use the Fern EPC coaching modality as the foundation of our coaching.
Rising Complexity in Healthcare
The healthcare industry has become increasingly complex, placing unprecedented demands on physicians. Doctors devote much of their time to fulfilling EMR duties, leaving them with less time for patient care and personal well-being. Payers are exercising increasing influence over how physicians practice medicine. The impending shortage of doctors in some specialties and the rising rates of physician depression, stress, and burnout further compound the challenges faced by healthcare organizations and medical practitioners.
Unraveling the Causes of Physician Burnout
Physician burnout is caused by a variety of factors, and they are all interconnected. Hospital consolidation, governmental constraints on healthcare, payer mandates and control. These are all contributors that lead to excessive administrative workloads, work-life imbalance, cognitive dissonance, and moral hazard. The end result: excessive physician stress, discontent, and eventually burnout.
The Socialized Mind: A Common Trait Among Physicians
A plurality of college-educated adults (including physicians) make sense of the world using a cognitive filter called “The Socialized Mind,” a worldview that prioritizes meeting expectations, excelling in your role, and fulfilling your responsibilities with distinction and minimal disruption. The Socialized Mind becomes problematic for physicians and executives when it leads to unrealistic self-expectations, the inability to set limits and boundaries, and an intolerance of seeking support. When a physician makes sense of his or her world through the Socialized Mind in today’s healthcare environment, it often leads to silence and isolation. And worse in some cases.
Grow Thinking Complexity and End Isolation
Two things need to happen. First, we need to develop our physicians to higher levels of sense making that internalize standards for success, set limits and boundaries, and increase one’s ability to face complexity. Second, we need to help physicians break silence and Isolation. Mental health services are a good choice, but many physicians and executives are reluctant to use them. Fern EPC coaching is an excellent way to break silence and isolation without pathologizing our physicians and healthcare executives, and it’s an excellent way to trend them toward higher levels of adaptive development.
Embracing Fern EPC Coaching
Healthcare organizations are investing in physician support programs such as refining EMR systems, offering mental health services, and integrating wellness programs. Fern EPC coaching can supplement these initiatives by empowering physicians and leaders with the cognitive and emotional agility required to master the complexities they face.
Empowering Healthcare Leaders for the Future
Fern EPCs coaching does not simply provide different things to know. It prepares doctors and healthcare leaders by facilitating different ways to know. We help physicians and executives flourish by providing caring support and empowering individuals and teams to objectify and grow the way they filter perception and make meaning. A physician’s technical abilities will only take them as far as their adaptive abilities allow, and then it will be like they are bashing their heads against an effectiveness glass ceiling. Grow your adaptive abilities.
