Points
- The study’s main aim was to explore how parenting responsibilities and full-time cardiologist jobs affect professional growth and mental well-being in the initial years of a person’s career.
- The result of the study indicated that parenting pressure and job pressure could develop burnout, anxiety, reduced organizational commitments, deferment of leadership, as well as delay in research opportunities.
- They suggested that health care organizations can help early year professionals by integrating flexible work hours and call schedules, allowing them to work remotely when it’s clinically feasible, cooperative parental leave plans, avoiding weekend as well as evening meetings, etc.
Summary
During the initial 7 years of their career, cardiologists present a distinctive group of professionals. During these years, they undergo many challenges during their practices at the professional end and family raising at the personal end. Defining a clinical niche as a professional, entering into independent practice, meeting clinical production targets, initiating a research project, winning funding grants for research, and possible deficiency of mentorship are a few professional challenges early-year cardiologists face. Maintaining a successful married life, supporting a family socially and financially, raising kids, remunerating student debt, successfully planning for a solid financial future, etc., are various challenges related to personal life. These challenges intensified during COVID-19 and enhanced the parental anxiety in early-year physicians.
The result of the study indicated that parenting pressure and job pressure could develop burnout, anxiety, reduced organizational commitments, deferment of leadership, as well as delay in research opportunities. Supportive associations can alleviate these challenges at the domestic, communal, and managerial level” that can “help early year cardiologists traverse these challenges and help to flourish them both on professional and personal fronts. Bharadwaj and his colleagues suggested that health care organizations can help early year professionals by integrating flexible work hours and call schedules, allowing them to work remotely when it’s clinically feasible, cooperative parental leave plans, avoiding weekend as well as evening meetings, etc.
Link to the article: https://www.acc.org/Latest-in-Cardiology/Articles/2022/08/30/15/05/JACC-Paper-Explores-the-Challenge-of-Balancing-Career-and-Parenting-Responsibilities
References American College of Cardiology. (2022, August 30). JACC Paper Explores the Challenge of Balancing Career and Parenting Responsibilities. American College of Cardiology; American College of Cardiology. https://www.acc.org/Latest-in-Cardiology/Articles/2022/08/30/15/05/JACC-Paper-Explores-the-Challenge-of-Balancing-Career-and-Parenting-Responsibilities
