THRIVE-Rx: Practical Guide to Flourishing for Physicians, By Practicing Physicians

OUR GUIDE'S PARTS

Part 1: Healing the Healers 

Here, we diagnose the medical model and introduce a new paradigm of Positive Medicine, grounded in positive psychology, the science of human flourishing. We delve into a framework of clinician well-being called REVAMP, emphasizing 6 core pillars of well-being: relationships, engagement, vitality, accomplishment, meaning, and positive emotions.

Part 2: Reclaiming Joy in Medicine

Here, we optimize engagement in our lives and work through flow, mindfulness, strength-development, and energy management. We focus on the mind/body connection and how we can better understand and leverage the powerful interplay between our minds and our physiology.

Part 3: Getting What You Want 

Here, we unpack the notion of achievement from both theoretical and practical perspectives. We’ll talk about what professional success really means, how to become indispensable at work, and what skills you need to develop to confidently ask for what you deserve.

Part 4: Work on Your Own Terms

Here, we hone in on why, regardless of mindset, you must understand and master your finances to achieve your ultimate goals. We provide basic, but powerfully vital, information for understanding and mastering your money game. This is a mini finance MBA designed for physicians.

Part 5: Transcend and Integrate 

Here, we synthesize material from our first four sessions and reflect on how we can live more intentionally by our values on a daily basis. We’ll talk about extracting more positivity from our daily lives with only micro-shifts in our habits and perspectives.  

How Well-Being Committees can Thrive!

Thrive-Rx is a collaboration with 4 physician experts to bring you “the course that we wish we had taken in medical school”. It condenses decades of research, training, wisdom and experience into just a few weeks. Five 90 minute modules covers key components of flourishing: personal well-being (heal the healer), professional fulfillment (reclaim joy in medicine), success (get what you want), and financial independence (work on your own terms). The final module (putting it all together) integrates all of the lessons into a personalized daily action plan that can be done in less than 10 minutes each day. 

The Thrive-Rx course can be seamlessly integrated into busy physician schedules. The video modules are pre-recorded into short 10-15 minute lessons that can be consumed anytime. This online learning is supported by weekly live office hours, personalized 1-on-1 sessions, pre and post proprietary Thrive-Rx well-being surveys, and evidence-based exercises to ensure that physicians get the most out of the course.   

Thrive-Rx is the only comprehensive course that is proven to positively impact personal well-being, professional fulfillment and financial literacy. Happy and engaged physicians provide better care with fewer conflicts and lower costs (improved retention). These physicians are also more likely to continue to practice medicine, decreasing the loss of good people from our profession. 

The Thrive-Rx team created this course for two main reasons. The first goal is to equip physicians with new tools, training and practical strategies that allow them to reclaim more joy and meaning from medicine. The other goal is to help physicians teach these principles to their patients and families. Given the youth mental health crisis, this may be the most important benefit of Thrive-Rx. 

The Thrive-Rx faculty are practicing physicians who have no plans to leave medicine or teach the course as a profitable side gig. We developed this course in service to our colleagues and profession. In order to accomplish our mission, Thrive-Rx is priced to simply cover our costs and CME that is offered for each physician. 

We are so confident in the value and effectiveness of Thrive-Rx that we offer 7.5 hours of CME.