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September 17, 2025
The Art of the Internal Transfer
Sometimes the right career move is an internal transfer. How to change departments in academic medicine without burning bridges.
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September 17, 2025
Growth Mindset Is More Than a Buzzword
What Carol Dweck's research actually says and how to apply it beyond the poster on the wall.
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September 16, 2025
The Values Card Sort for Career Clarity
How the values card sort exercise helps physicians cut through expectations and prestige to find genuine career clarity.
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September 15, 2025
The Power of Pausing Before You React
The brief moment between stimulus and response is the most powerful tool a physician leader has. Here's how to expand it.
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September 14, 2025
Coaching vs. Therapy for Physicians — What's the Difference?
A clear explanation of how coaching and therapy differ for physicians — and why many benefit from both at different career stages.
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September 13, 2025
What Invictus Teaches About Leading Through Symbolism
Mandela used a rugby jersey to unite a nation. What Invictus teaches physician leaders about the power of symbolic action.
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September 13, 2025
Apollo 13 — Leadership Under Pressure
What Apollo 13's Gene Kranz teaches physician leaders about staying calm, prioritizing ruthlessly, and leading teams through crisis.
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September 13, 2025
Building a Research Team from Scratch
Practical advice for early-career faculty assembling their first research team in academic medicine — hiring, funding, and building lab culture.
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September 11, 2025
The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Review for Academic Medicine
Ben Horowitz's startup survival guide reviewed for physician leaders navigating crises and hard decisions in academic medicine.
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September 10, 2025
The Growing Role of Mid-Level Providers in Academic Medicine
How the expansion of NPs and PAs is reshaping team structures, faculty roles, and supervision in academic medicine.
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September 10, 2025
The Strategic Value of Side Projects in Academic Medicine
Why the project your chair doesn't understand might be the smartest career move you make.
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September 9, 2025
Why Physicians Struggle to Ask for Help
Medical training conditions physicians to go it alone. Here's why asking for help is a career strength, not a weakness.
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