Health Care Professional Well-Being: Shifting Focus to Optimizing Performance
Expires January 23, 2022
Presentation
Video length: 55 minutes
In this month’s “Virtual Lecture,” Colin West, M.D., Ph.D., speaks broadly about health care professionals' well-being, and discusses various principles for you to use in your own career to prevent burnout symptoms and dissatisfaction.
Objectives
Upon completion of this program, participants should be able to:
- Recognize human performance theory as it relates to physicians.
- Describe the benefits of focusing on optimizing performance.
- Outline a well-being model of medicine built on optimizing performance.
Intended Audience
This program is appropriate for clinicians, pathologists, medical technologists, nurses, pharmacists, and other allied health staff.
Faculty

Professor of Biostatistics and Medical Education
Department of General Internal Medicine
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Credit
The following types of credit are offered for this program:
ASCLS P.A.C.E.®
State of California
State of Florida
To obtain credit:
- Watch the video.
- Complete the posttest and evaluation that launches immediately following the video.
- Generate and print your certificate(s).
Level of instruction for this program is basic.
ASCLS P.A.C.E.®
Mayo Clinic Laboratories is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the Clinical Laboratory Sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® program. This program has been approved for a maximum of 1.0 P.A.C.E.® contact hour.
State of California
Mayo Clinic Laboratories is approved as a Continuing Education Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences for the State of California. This program has been approved for 1.0 contact hour.
State of Florida
Mayo Clinic Laboratories is approved as a Continuing Education Accrediting Agency for the Clinical Laboratory Sciences for the State of Florida. Florida Board of Clinical Laboratory Personnel has designated this program for General credit. This program has been approved for 1.0 contact hour.
Faculty Disclosure
Course director(s), planning committee, faculty, and all others who are in a position to control the content of this educational activity are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest related to the subject matter of the educational activity. Safeguards against commercial bias have been put in place. Faculty members also will disclose any off-label and/or investigational use of pharmaceuticals or instruments discussed in their presentations. Disclosure of this information will be published in course materials so those participants in the activity may formulate their own judgments regarding the presentations.
Questions?
Contact us: mcleducation@mayo.edu