Essential Time Management skills for Physicians

Learn the essential time management skills for improving your ability to manage your work time more efficiently by applying general validated techniques based on the practical experiences of other physicians. With this introductory course for physicians, you learn to put into practice time management skills to make your work easier and therefore more productive.

The course covers primarily four modules:

• Get to know the two crucial steps in time management
• Learn how to reduce unproductive working habits
• Find techniques for reducing administration, phone calls, and procrastination
• Build methods for rearrangement of clinical work

Time management is the foundation that helps you in organizing your workday! Successful work time management brings you higher personal productivity and helps you reduce your stress level. Consequently, your work safety—for both you and your patients—will increase. You will be more satisfied with your work because you will feel you have control over your work time.

Content and Overview
In this course of 7 lectures, you will learn all the essential tools for organizing your work in a more efficient way. The modules present a toolkit of possibilities you have for making your work easier, but you have to adapt them to your own work style and personality.

The course is suitable for physicians who are already familiar with personal productivity. I will take you through a step-by-step process in which we will first learn about the two crucial steps in time management and why they are so important in your work. Then we will get to know the most common habits that do not make your work more efficient—and methods for reducing them.

The middle part of the course will speak about strategies for handling paperwork, phone calls, and procrastination. By the end of the course, we will come up with methods for organizing your clinical work. The course closes with exercises covering the essential parts of the course, enabling you to put your newly learned time management skills into practical use immediately.

By completing the course, the accumulated experience will help you put the theoretical methods into your daily practice. Others have succeeded; you can do this too!