#0: Introduction to Medical Mentor Coaching

May 13, 2024

"I want to help you be efficient in what you're doing, whether that's improving your charting or focusing your practice. I'm here to be your academic medicine career coach."

Episode Title: Welcome to the Medical Mentor Coaching Podcast!

Introduction:

Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Medical Mentor Podcast, where Dr. Stacey Ishman, a seasoned otolaryngologist and sleep medicine specialist, introduces herself and shares her journey and goals for this podcast series.

About Dr. Stacey Ishman:

Dr. Stacey Ishman is a triple-boarded, fellowship-trained otolaryngologist specializing in sleep medicine. She has a distinguished career in both clinical practice and research, with over 220 peer-reviewed publications and involvement in significant NIH, industry, and DOD grants. Dr. Ishman has also contributed extensively to medical education and mentorship, impacting the careers of many in the field of medicine.

Episode Highlights:

Personal and Professional Journey: Dr. Ishman discusses her extensive experience in sleep medicine, research, and population health. She also reflects on her roles on editorial boards and committees, emphasizing the importance of aligning professional roles with personal passion.
Impact of COVID-19: The pandemic brought significant personal and professional changes for Dr. Ishman, leading her to reevaluate her career and focus more on what she truly values—mentoring and coaching in academic medicine.
Podcast Goals: Dr. Ishman aims to assist physicians, especially those in the early stages of their careers, to efficiently manage their academic productivity, navigate organizational involvement, and achieve leadership roles without feeling overwhelmed.

What To Expect From The Podcast:

Focused on helping doctors optimize their academic productivity (papers, presentations, organizational involvement)
Tips for finding your niche, getting published, getting on programs, and moving into leadership roles
Strategies for efficiency and avoiding burnout in academic medicine
Quick 10-15 minute episodes

"I'm talking to you if you're a physician in your first 10 years of practice or you're beyond that but struggling with how to make all this work together."

Upcoming Topics: Detailed discussion on finding one's niche in medicine, handling panel submissions, and strategies for national meetings to enhance one's reputation.

Call to Action:

Subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
Follow Dr. Ishman on Instagram (@SIshmanCoach), Facebook, Pinterest, and LinkedIn for more insights and updates.
PLEASE Reach out with feedback or questions through social media platforms!

Next Episode Preview:

Episode 1: "Crafting Your Career Plan" – Dr. Ishman will discuss how to effectively create a career plan that reflects your professional goals and personal values.

Episode 2: “The Insider’s Guide to Owning National Meetings” - We will discuss how to maximize your impact at conferences and meetings to build your national reputation.

Thank You Message:

Thank you for listening (and reading this)!

I appreciate your joining me on this journey of academic and personal growth in medicine.

Episode Transcript

Ep 0 Podcast Introduction - Transcript

Today I would like to introduce myself to you and hope you'll be joining me in future episodes. My name is Stacey Ishman and I'm an otolaryngologist - head and neck surgeon, or ENT doctor, with a specialty in sleep medicine. I'm triple boarded, fellowship trained, with a clinical career focused on the treatment of adults and children with sleep apnea. I've had a successful research career that I loved, with over 200 peer-reviewed publications, work on several NIH, industry, and a DOD grant, with a focus on clinical trials and outcomes research.

I've also had the opportunity to work in population health and helped build a utilization management program. I've been on the board of multiple national and international organizations, as well as involved locally in my physician hospital organization and our clinically integrated network. I've also been a member of a ridiculous number of committees.

I've spent a lot of time doing things that I enjoy, but I've also found things I really didn't. I sat on four editorial boards and was the assistant editor for a journal a few years ago. While I appreciated the opportunity and the purpose… I know this is something that helps advance the specialty and it looks great for promotion, I really didn't love the work.

It wasn't for me. And the best thing I ever did was to realize that this is not where my passion lies and to say no to those roles. It was like a weight was lifted off me.

Now, how did I get to this spot where I'm sitting with a computer in an empty room talking to myself? And what makes me think I can provide some useful information to my medical colleagues?

Well, like for many of you, COVID was a game changer. I was getting divorced, not feeling appreciated at work, and disconnected from what I truly thought or felt. The part of my career that I loved the most was mentoring and coaching, both trainees and young faculty.

And I loved helping people figure out what they loved and how to create a life or career that reflected that. Sometimes I helped people focus on their efforts to be most successful, to be most efficient, but other times it was really useful to help people see that academic medicine was not for them. Before COVID, I was an internationally invited speaker who leaned into every invitation and really loved the opportunity to learn from others on the program.

But in retrospect, I was also running away from my personal life and unhappy deep down. When the world shut down in 2020, I was happy that I had to cancel all my upcoming travel. Now, I didn't want to sit in my house by myself. I didn't want to feel isolated, but I couldn't have been happier to stop the wheel, to stop the running around. I had not sat still for years, and I was so disconnected from my thoughts and feelings. I had no idea what I liked or what I wanted or even what I needed.

And that time and space, and honestly, some of that loneliness, helped me find my passion again and got me to this place. This is one where I get to listen and help people figure out who they want to be and how to get there.
Now, my goal is to help doctors focus their academic productivity.

This includes papers and presentations and organizational involvement… to more quickly succeed in medicine, get promoted, and move into leadership roles without feeling overworked or stressed out.

I'm starting this podcast to go more in depth. I'd like to talk about some topics that really plagued me as I started my career, including how to pick a niche or niche, my 18-year-old tells me it's niche, and help other people understand their niche.

I want to talk about how to approach panel submissions and how to get involved at the organizational level, either nationally or locally, but in the right place, how to get on the right committees and the ones that are relevant to you that you want to use to have a voice and make an impact.

I'll talk to you about organizational involvement, including activities and committees that make sense for you, and the things that help you get appointed.
We'll also figure out how to get your papers published, how to get on the program, and how to move into leadership if you want to.

But no matter what your path looks like, I want to help you be efficient in what you're doing, whether that's improving your charting or focusing your practice. I'm here to be your academic medicine career coach.

The format of this podcast will be solo episodes with some interviews in a quick 10-to-15-minute format. [It's about the right length for my attention span.]

I'm talking to you if you're a physician in your first 10 years of practice or you're beyond that but struggling with how to make all this work together. I'm planning to talk to you on a weekly basis. You can currently find me on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

I encourage you to subscribe or follow for future episodes, and please get in touch with me to share feedback or questions. I'm on Instagram @SIshmanCoach, as well as Facebook, Pinterest, and LinkedIn.

For the podcast's first episode, I'm focusing on how to get a career plan in place. For episode two, we'll be talking about how to strategize and take best advantage of your time at national meetings in order to optimize building your national reputation.

If you've made it this far, I sincerely thank you for listening, and I hope you subscribe and join me on this journey.

Thanks.

#0: Introduction to Medical Mentor Coaching

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