Episode 83 - Dr. Mark Martinez - From Resident to Attending - Part 2

In this episode, Dr Rui Ariyapala welcomes back with Dr Mark Martinez, who is a native New Yorker practicing Emergency Medicine at Baptist Health South Florida in Miami. He attended medical school at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn before completing his residency in Emergency Medicine at Albert Einstein/Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx. Dr. Martinez recently graduated with a Masters in Industrial Organizational Psychology at Florida International University, and he shares how he developed his approach to preventing and mitigating physician burnout and discusses the utility of ‘Participative Management’. Dr. Martinez had practiced physician coaching for several years focusing on wellness and personal development. The motivation for all of that was a difficult and protracted personal battle with burnout and mental illness. Aside from practicing emergency medicine Dr. Martinez is currently working as a consultant for the FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, developing a more evidence-based and specific approach to medical student selection. 
We discuss his penultimate years as a resident, specifically making medical decisions and managing people as he prepares for attending life.  For personal and professional growth, he emphasizes that physicians should never stop reading, especially as an attending. Dr. Martinez gives advice on how to regulate emotions when taking on the burden of the ultimate clinical and administrative responsibility.

Feel free to check out part 1 (Episode 62) which introduces Dr. Martinez’s background in Emergency Medicine and pragmatic residency wellness tools for burnout.