CONTACT: Whitney Harmon 307-635-2424 Whitney@wyomed.org FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: May 3, 2019 Wyoming Doctors Name Statewide Physician of the Year Casper Psychiatrist to be honored with 2019 WMS Physician of the Year Award CHEYENNE – Stephen Brown, MD, of Casper was recently named, and will be honored by the Wyoming Medical Society […]
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GAGME Launches New Residency Program
****For Immediate Release*** GAGME Launches New Residency Program Dedicated to Putting Paperwork First. –New Residency Program Elevates Paperwork to Its Rightful Status– Clark, WY – (April 1, 2018)- The Group Association for Graduate Medical Education (GAGME) recently launched a new residency program dedicated to exclusive focus on the primacy of paperwork in […]
WMS Develops Physician Leadership Program
The Wyoming Medical Society has received a $150,000 grant from The Physician Foundation to fund a leadership program for Wyoming physicians. The program will allow a cohort of between 15-and-20 Wyoming physicians to take part in the program each year. The inaugural program will get started in October of 2017. The program will be broken […]
Medicaid to Pay Telehealth Visits Originating from Home
By Tom Lacock Wyoming Medical Society Wyoming Medicaid Medical Director James Bush, MD says he hopes by the end of summer all the pieces will be put in place to allow the state to pay for telehealth visits by Wyoming Medicaid patients which originate from the patient’s home. Currently, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid […]
Wyoming Residencies Attempt to Address Burnout Early
By Tom Lacock Wyoming Medical Society Research suggests physician burnout begins in medical school and seems to really impact future physicians as residents. The University of Wyoming’s Family Medicine Residency Program in Casper is doing something about it. “Our national Family Medicine Residency Association’s annual meeting had a keynote speaker discuss physician and resident wellness,” […]
From Doc To Coach
By Tom Lacock Wyoming Medical Society The journey through medical education and into practice is one that Betsy Spomer, MD of Powell suggests is very prescribed and linear. However, the route to job satisfaction and maintaining work-life balance is not. Spomer’s own experience as a physician experiencing burnout has led her in a new […]
Physician Burnout Now the Norm
By Tom Lacock Wyoming Medical Society Betsy Spomer, MD still thinks about the day a deal for her new physician office fell through. She had been practicing in Powell for about 12 years before modifying her practice plan into something that would allow for what she thought was more balance in her life. The new […]
Bush Column: Physician Leadership Program Coming to Wyoming
A quick google search of Physician Leadership programs nets over 26,000,000 results in just .48 of a second. It takes just a few moments longer to find mountains of whitepapers making the case why physician leadership programs are valuable to doctors and their patients. Thanks to a grant award by the Physician Foundation, the Wyoming […]
Monger Column: When Did Burnout Become a Thing?
By Rob Monger, MD A colleague of mine recently told me that he wouldn’t mind being a few years younger except that it would mean that he would have to practice medicine a few years longer which he couldn’t stand. Lots of physicians these days are burned out. A Medscape survey of U.S. physicians done in […]