Working two emergency room shifts a month helps this professor keep his clinical skills sharp. Carl Heine is the Associate Dean for Clinical Education at Washington State University’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine and an emergency room physician at Spokane’s Deaconess Hospital. A sense of moral injury, burnout, overwhelm, and lack of enthusiasm is felt across the community of healthcare professionals. Listen to learn how Dr. Heine achieves work balance by blending the rewards reaped in helping patients when they need it most as an E.R. doctor with the sense of optimism experienced while instructing students of medicine as a university professor. Dr. Heine also emphasizes the need to treat whole communities alongside treating the individual members of those communities.

“Finding Joy: The Health Care Professional’s Journey to Well-being" is a podcast resource developed by a team of interprofessional education researchers from Washington State University Health Sciences Spokane. They’re promoting well-being among students, faculty, and healthcare professionals during challenging times. Funding is provided by the Health Resources and Services Administration.

The Interprofessional Education Research team wishes to thank the following individuals for their invaluable contributions to this project:

• Dr. Barb Richardson, nurse, educator, and interprofessional champion;

• Cameron Cupp, creator of the “Finding Joy” musical score and current enrollee at WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine;

• Washington State University staff from Marketing and Communications, Financial Services, and the Collaboration for Interprofessional Health Education Research and Scholarship; and

• Claire Martin-Tellis, Executive Producer, and Solen Aref, student intern, who developed the first five episodes of the “Finding Joy” podcast.

This episode of “Finding Joy” was produced by Doug Nadvornick, Program Director, Spokane Public Radio.

If you would like to reach out, please contact our team by sending an email to: medicine.ipoc@wsu.edu We also encourage you to visit our podcast blog as well as our team's website at: https://opioideducation.wsu.edu/about/.