Interview with Dr. Shelly Bhowmik – 440

In today’s podcast replay from 2022, Dr. Shelly Bhowmik describes how her training in preventive and lifestyle medicine enhances patient care, and how she built a consulting business serving employers.

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Dr. Bhowmik is the founder of Platform Wellness, a business devoted to assisting employers build a resilient workforce. She founded her business on the principle that “mindset is medicine,” which she discovered at the edge of a subway platform during her personal journey.

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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 explained 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.

Preventive 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. This framework supports managing stress, overcoming burnout, and regaining resilience and vitality.

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 learn more about Dr. Bhomik and her workplace consulting services by going to her website.

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