The field of wellbeing has significantly expanded the study of the spectrum of human experience. Instead of having only two polarizing options—wellbeing and illness—there are intermediate states where neither true wellbeing nor illness are present.
Read MoreApproximately 29% of healthcare organizations have an engagement program (MGMA 2018), which sounds like good news. The problem is that typically these programs are disjointed and separate from other programs that have direct bearing on physician engagement. For example, hospitals will have a burnout of wellbeing program that is completely separate from an engagement program, which ignores the important truths that, one, burnout is the opposite of engagement and, two, engagement is a fundamental element of wellbeing. Since we know that burnout and engagement are the opposite ends of the same spectrum (Maslach et al, 2014), we must keep in mind both burnout and engagement when designing a program to engage physicians.
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