Career and Life Planning Guidebook for Medical Residents

Physician Wellness to directions on the box. While pasta cooks….”you get the drift. While your staff is rooming patients, take that time and sort through your desktop. If there are “easy” tasks to address, do them! Clear that visual clutter and watch the number of items on your desktop drop. Delegate what you can to trusted staff members instead of letting requests pile up. Organize your rounds in the hospital bywhich patients are going to be off the floor for procedures and get them seen, instead of having to double back and find them at the end of the day. Bycreating little “pockets of time” for yourself, you’ll feel less overwhelmed when you come back to it and have more mental energy (and time) to address the clinical conundrums we all run into every day. Reflection + Activity Eisenhower Matrix. Prioritize your tasks by placing each task into one of the four categories: 1. Urgent / Important 3. Urgent / Less Important 2. Less Urgent / Important 4. Less Urgent / Less Important Sorting out less urgent and important tasks which you should either delegate or not do at all. To learn more about how to use the Eisenhower Matrix as a tool for time management, click https://www.eisenhower.me/eisenhower-matrix/. Create “pockets of time” for yourself. 55 WWW.PHYSICIANCAREERPLANNING.COM