Interview with Dr. Shelly Bhowmik

In today’s podcast, Dr. Shelly Bhowmik describes how her training in preventive medicine and lifestyle medicine enhances patient care.

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Dr. Bhowmik is the founder of Platform Wellness, a business devoted to assisting patients in recovering from burnout. She founded her business on the principle that “mindset is medicine,” which she discovered via her personal journey, which started at the edge of a subway platform.

Dr. Bhowmik is a Preventive Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine expert with dual board certification. She completed her medical degree at the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences, and her preventive medicine residency at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Her prior positions include medical director of digital health for an executive health firm in New York City and design thinking strategist at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Her goal as the founder of Platform Wellness is to support people in achieving personal and professional success without compromising their health and wellness, especially women of color.

During our conversation, Dr. Bhowmick explains why she believes that preventive medicine is an ideal residency option for those medical students who are not sure about pursuing traditional patient care. Preventive Medicine offers more training in administration and systems approaches. And jobs with minimal or no direct patient care are common for those trained in the discipline.

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Preventive Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine

Dr. Bhowmik explains that stress is the foundation of burnout. However, she also views depression and suicidal thoughts as part of this process. It’s crucial to identify these signs and symptoms quickly so appropriate action can be taken.

And she believes that her training in preventive medicine and lifestyle medicine together enable her to approach the problem more effectively.

On her site, she offers both private and group coaching. She developed a three-step framework for her platform that she calls ReST: Revive, Strive, and Thrive. And this framework supports managing stress, overcoming burnout, and regaining resilience and vitality.

A free masterclass offered by Dr. Bhwomik delves deeply into the entire framework. Here are the nine steps:

  1. Detect distress
  2. Secure space
  3. Seek support
  4. Restore routine
  5. Tackle triggers
  6. Master mindset
  7. Ease efforts
  8. Hone habits
  9. Cultivate connections

Corporate Workplace Solutions

Organizational burnout management requires a more methodical, systems-level approach, combined with individualized coaching.

Dr. Bhowmik identifies organizational culture as the key factor at play Being able to work with businesses and assist them in developing psychologically safe settings is important because it will make employees feel more at ease seeking assistance when they do. 

Dr. Bhowmik’s Advice on Burnout

…mindset is medicine. The beliefs that we have, what we tell ourselves, it is so powerful. And if we have dysfunctional thoughts, dysfunctional beliefs that are fueling the burnout, that’s where a lot of this work is. You have to be able to identify what those limiting beliefs are and then be able to replace them with more empowering ones that can help you and lift you out of the burnout.

Summary

You can access a free Masterclass that teaches the 9-step coaching method to help you detect distress, restore routine, ease efforts, and more by going to www.shellybhowmik.com/masterclass

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