Ep12: Dr. Michi Shinohara, MD on burnout

About 50% of doctors have burnout, and burnout is increasing among dermatologists. Pathologists have been reported to have the least amount of burnout. In this episode, Dr. Michi Shinohara shares how you can recognize burnout, some steps to take to combat it, and the importance of letting go. Dr. Michi Shinohara is Associate Professor, Associate Chief of Dermatology, and Director of Dermatopathology in the Division of Dermatology at the University of Washington. She attended Reed College in Oregon, starting as an art major before majoring in chemistry. She got her medical degree from the University of Washington School of Medicine. She has completed both an internal medicine and dermatology residency, and her dermatopathology fellowship was completed at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Shinohara runs the Cutaneous Lymphoma Clinic at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. Her research interests are quality of life for patients with cutaneous lymphoma, and mentorship and sponsorship of women and those who are historically excluded in medicine. She has written on burnout, an important topic for us all to be familiar with: links https://www.jaad.org/article/S0190-9622(20)30165-1/fulltext and https://journals.lww.com/ijwd/Fulltext/2020/06000/The_emotional_toll___Burnout_impacts_men_and_women.60.aspx. Link to an implicit association test. https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html. You can find Dr. Shinohara on Twitter @michi_shinohara.