BURNOUT PROOF MD ECOSYSTEM
3-Layers of Physician Support 

My name is Dike Drummond. I am a family doctor.

Med School at Mayo and residency in the U.C. Davis system in Redding California - first board certified in 1987. Ten years in full service private practice in Mount Vernon, Washington - delivered over 500 babies and was Chairperson of the Executive Committee of our 40 doctor multispecialty group.

I burned out of my practice in 2000, developed a successful training company with my now ex-wife teaching meeting facilitation skills to executives including those in the armed services. 

I was certified as an Executive Coach in 2001 and have coached entrepreneurs and physicians ever since.

In 2010, I launched a physician burnout coaching website called TheHappyMD.com.

Since that date, the single focus of my professional life has been the recognition and prevention of physician burnout.  I have accumulated over 3000 hours of physician coaching experience, written over 300 blog posts, trained over 40,000 physicians to recognize and prevent burnout in live settings. To date, I have worked with over 175 organizations and societies on four continents.

• I am the author of "Stop Physician Burnout - what to do when working harder isn't working - over 40,000 copies sold
• The creator of two retreats - Heart of the Healer Physician Wellness Retreat and the Quadruple Aim Physician Leadership Retreat
• The creator of the research proven One Minute Mindfulness Program for Physicians
• Creator of the Pandemic Survival Guide and Practice Reset Online Workshop 

We launched our first physician support community in 2014, to continue to support our retreat graduates as they practiced their new wellness and leadership skills in the real world. 

We launched the Burnout Proof MD 3-layer support ECOSYSTEM in 2021 to provide full spectrum support to all physicians. 

We launched our first physician support community in 2014, to support our retreat graduates as they practiced their new wellness and leadership skills in the real world.

We deliver two retreats:

• Heart of the Healer Physician Wellness Retreat - to help you build your personal burnout prevention strategy
• Quadruple Aim Physician Leadership Retreat - gives you the tools and support to be an effective wellness champion for your people

In 2021, we upgraded our original support community to contain the three layers of the current ECOSYSTEM you see now: Training, Weekly Coaching and the Support Website. 

Becoming Burnout Proof is usually Phase Two of a doctor's career.

PHASE ONE:
Autopilot on someone else's Job Description.

Understand that we were all powerfully conditioned in your 7 - 16 year tour of duty in the medical education system.

Recall that Medical School, Residency and Fellowship was a survival contest and a prolonged exercise in following orders. All you had to do is what you were told and make it to the finish line. After all, what do they call the person who graduates last in their medical school class?

With your board certification in hand, you step into the "real world", having forgotten you have free will. You are just looking for someone else to tell you what to do. Your first employer is happy to play that role. They show you THEIR JOB DESCRIPTION. It is called "the way we do things around here". 

You do the best to follow their rules, work hard, pull your weight, color inside the lines - just like you did as a resident.

It gets painful. You reach a point where you "can't take it any more". After all, was this Job Description designed to match your personal Ideal Practice??

PHASE TWO:
Wake up to take back your practice and your life. 

Note that this process will often begin with an episode of burnout:

• Remember what you were thinking/dreaming of when you made the decision to be a doctor.
• Take some time to build your own Ideal Practice Description.
• Start moving in that direction.
• Make your practice YOUR PRACTICE
• Step into your life as a Physician ... ON PURPOSE, with your head up, shoulders back and eyes bright. 
• On your terms and consistent with your values
  
  

We have found this process of waking up is much easier to complete and maintain, if you have unfettered access to two things:

• Proven tools to prevent burnout and build a more Ideal Practice
• A supportive community of like-minded physicians working together so all of us are building a more Ideal Practice

There was and is no such physician support community we are aware of anywhere in the world or on the internet.
That is why we created our original physician support community way back in 2014 and why we have upgraded it to the three layer ECOSYSTEM you see here to meet the stresses of the COVID and A.I. eras.

The Burnout Proof MD resources contain 12 years, well over 10,000 hours, 40,000 doctors and 175 organizations worth of burnout prevention experience from our coaching, training and consulting practice at TheHappyMD.com. Real tools, real support, proven effective in the real world of practicing physicians. We will not teach you anything that has not worked for hundreds of doctors already. These are hard-won lessons that have saved hundreds of doctor's careers.

You are our first priority. The Burnout Proof MD forums are the first place I stop in my morning routine to answer questions and respond to comments. As a BPMD Member, you are on the top of my daily priority list.

Having a community of support from like-minded physicians is an experience like no other. WE HAVE YOUR BACK.

We screen members and maintain the integrity of our community. You won't see a bunch of whiney burned out doctors, complaining about "the system" in our forums. We are all pulling in the same direction, helping each other, on the same team. You have probably not received that kind of support from your peers in the past. You can get a heaping helping of it in the Forums and on the ZOOM Mastermind calls any time you log on. 

There is no similar support community on the internet with such a depth of tools and field tested support options.

And BPMD is less expensive than a one-on-one coach and includes unique support components like our private support portal.

Let's talk ROI:

If you think about the remaining lifetime earnings of your career as a physician - between now and when you would normally retire - and compare that total with your investment in BPMD. You will quickly see the ROI on preventing burnout and the premature end of your practice of medicine is massive. 

The short answer is NO.

BPMD is a Physician Support Community.
If there was a time in your life when you stood at the Lightworker's Fork in the Road and made the decision to become a doctor --- the decision that you have the heart and the gumption to go to medical school and do what it takes to become a physician.

If that is you, you are welcome in Physicians On Purpose.

• You might be a medical student
• A resident or fellow
• You might be a full-time clinician - in any specialty or practice setting
• You might be part-time clinical and part-time something else - administration, academics, research, coach
• You might have a side gig - or two
• You might have exited clinical practice completely - retirement or a completely different career

You  never stop being a physician - a helper, a healer and a Lightworker

We are here to help you make that use of your Lightworker's skills conscious and on purpose

Burnout Proof MD is RISK FREE with our try-before-you-subscribe system.

We want you to be sure you will benefit from the support of the Burnout Proof MD ECOSYSTEM before you put your hard-earned money down on a subscription.

• When you register for BPMD, you will be asked to choose a monthly or annual subscription. Your investment is $300/month or $3000/year (a $600 savings)
• You will also be asked for your credit card information
• And you WILL NOT BE CHARGED for 30 Days

If you wish to stop your subscription within those 30 Days, just let us know and we will cancel your payment and your access to the ECOSYSTEM resources.

Yes and Yes

• Your subscription is a legitimate use of your CME or Professional Development funds from your employer. Each training provides CME as does each of our weekly coaching calls. You can earn up to 100 credits per year inside BPMD.
• If you own your own business, your subscription is a legitimate business expense.

If you need a certificate or need us to talk with your HR Benefits manager, we would be happy to do so.

You have full access to every call even if you can't be on ZOOM with us live.

• Every Coaching Call is recorded. Video and Audio files are mounted inside our shared website. 
• We also create a Table of Contents and two CME Credit links for each weekly ZOOM session.
• Once the files are processed and uploaded all members receive an email with the link to that lesson's resource library.