Module 1 · Worksheet 1.2
Plot the four drivers of your current depletion against cost and personal leverage. The top-right quadrant is where the work starts.
Approved for 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
Mastery and Wellness · A self-paced course for practicing physicians
Practice medicine on your own terms. Within the limits of what’s actually possible.
Learn to separate what you can change from what you can’t, and choose what to act on. Communicate with and lead your team. Recognize what you’re feeling before it turns into a blowup or goes numb. Explore the career paths that fit you. Short lessons, three professional assessments, and a written plan you keep using.
14-day full refund · Lifetime access · May be eligible for CME-fund reimbursement
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Modules across four phases: Identify, Align, Develop, Sustain
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Short video lessons, most under ten minutes
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Professional assessments included: VIA, DISC, EIQ
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Lifetime access & return visits
Inside the course
The argument you've already had in your head.
A moment from the emotional intelligence module, on why difficult conversations so often go wrong before anyone says a word.
The Reality
Most physicians can't point to a single moment.
They simply want something better.
You stayed late on a Tuesday and missed dinner again. You answered an inbox message during your kid's recital. You sat through a meeting where someone called you a high performer and cut your pay in the same sentence — and walked out unsure which part was the lie.
The story has different shapes. You were just promoted, and the promotion looks a lot like a third job. Or you asked to move two patients so you could pick up your kids one night a month, and people who have never met you said no. Or you got paged about a scheduling question during a real emergency, snapped, and sent the message you swore you'd never send.
None of it is a personal failure. You keep saying yes because you mean it — and that is not the part that needs fixing. You are still the doctor people are lucky to get. What is missing is the structure that lets you stay that way on terms you choose, without shrinking the rest of your life to do it.
You don't have a productivity problem. You have a life that has been measured by RVUs and gotten smaller.
Medicine is still worth doing. The trick is doing it without disappearing.
Who this is for
Built for physicians making a decision they don't want to get wrong.
This is for you if…
- You are being asked to produce more, take more call, lead more, publish more — and you suspect another decade of pure grind isn't going to land you somewhere you want to be.
- You want to be the physician who says yes to one more patient — and the parent who is home for bedtime. You believe both are part of being a good doctor, and you are tired of being told they are in conflict.
- You snapped at a colleague, sent a message you regret, said something out loud the version of you who started medical school wouldn't recognize. You'd like to understand it and not repeat it.
- You are weighing a real change — a job, a leadership role, a step back, a step out — and you know it's the kind of decision that deserves more than a tired Tuesday night to make.
- You want to do this work quietly. Privately. Without explaining yourself to a group, a chair, or the badge.
This is probably not for you if…
- You want a productivity hack, a time-blocking system, or a way to feel better about your schedule without changing anything underneath it.
- You want someone to tell you whether to leave medicine. This course will not. It will help you see clearly enough to make that decision — or any other — on purpose.
- You're looking for a live group program with peer accountability. This course is deliberately solo and self-paced — if real-time feedback is essential for you, one-on-one coaching is the better fit.
- You're not ready to put anything in writing about your own life. The work here is concrete and reflective. It asks for honest words, not slogans.
By the end of the course, you'll have a blueprint for the next chapter of your career. You'll write it section by section as you move through the modules. You'll come back to it quarterly. You'll keep it for the rest of your career.
- The moment or pattern that brought you here, written clearly enough that you can come back to it
- An honest audit of what your training over-developed and what it under-developed
- Your top five values, ranked, with one decision you're currently making that conflicts with them
- Your VIA signature strengths and the work that energizes versus drains you, even when you do it well
- Your DISC communication style and two specific conversations you're going to handle differently in the next thirty days
- The career direction you're choosing — forward, backward, lateral, or outside — and why
- Three SMART goals and three intentions for the next twelve months
- A one-sentence commitment, signed and dated, that you carry forward
Inside the workbook
What the work looks like.
The work isn't a list of journaling prompts. It's a sequence of structured instruments — one per lesson — each designed to be printed, completed in pen, and carried into the next one. A few pages, from across the modules.
Module 2 · Worksheet 2.2
Your VIA strengths in two columns. The first you can fill in your sleep. The second is the column most physicians have never been asked to write.
Module 3 · Worksheet 3.1
Five to ten values, defined in your own words. The word is the easy part. Your definition is the part that has to hold up.
Module 4 · Worksheet 4.3
Four to six colleagues, mapped on the same axes as you. The asymmetry is where most of your communication friction comes from.
Module 6 · Worksheet 6.2
One question, asked four times through four different lenses. The retirement speech is the first.
After the course · The Sustainable Practice
One value out of alignment. One strength to lean into. One conversation to have. Forty-five minutes every three months for the rest of your career.
The Curriculum
Four phases. Eight modules. One coherent arc.
The eight modules are grouped into the four phases of the career architecture method. You move through them in order. Each lesson is under ten minutes. Each module ends with a section of the workbook you'll have written by the time you're done.
Phase I
Identify
See what is true about where you are.
Module 0 · The Problem
Stop blaming yourself for thinking like a doctor.
Name the four specific reflexes your training built into you on purpose — perfectionism, working through anything, hiding flaws, suppressing emotion — and learn three concrete techniques for interrupting the inner voice that's been running you since med school. The aim: to stop reading your own exhaustion as a personal failure.
Module 1 · Burnout vs. Job Satisfaction
Tell the difference between a hard week and the slow leak you've been ignoring.
Pinpoint which specific drivers of physician burnout are operating in your life right now — not generally, specifically. Walk away with concrete practices for refilling the physical, emotional, and spiritual reserves the work has been quietly draining, plus a thirty-second between-patient reset you can start using tomorrow.
Phase II
Align
Connect what is true to how you are uniquely built.
Module 2 · Work to Your Strengths
Find the part of your work that energizes you — and lean into it on purpose.
Identify your top five character strengths and see exactly how they show up in your practice today. Figure out which signature strength you've been underusing — the one that goes flat under stress — and walk away with one specific way to use it differently this month.
Module 3 · Values
Stop making decisions that feel wrong even when they look right on paper.
Name the five values that guide your best decisions — including the ones nobody told you to value. Identify the one decision you're making right now that conflicts with them. Write a mission statement you'll come back to the next time something hard needs deciding.
Module 4 · Communication Skills
Walk into the conversation you've been dreading without rehearsing it for a week first.
Understand why certain colleagues feel impossible to talk to — not because they're difficult, but because they're wired differently — and learn how to flex without giving up your spine. Pick two specific relationships in your life that need handling differently. Leave with a concrete plan for both.
Module 5 · Building Community
Lead the team through the hardest day instead of being the person they manage around.
Build the four capacities that separate physicians people follow in a code from physicians people work around: self-awareness, self-regulation, social awareness, relationship management. Includes a self-debrief framework you'll use after the next high-pressure case to learn from it instead of replaying it at 2am.
Phase III
Develop
Build the plan that turns clarity into action.
Module 6 · Doing Work That Matters
Name what you want — not what you've been told to want — and put it in writing.
Define the one word you want people to remember you for. Turn it into a five-year intention statement — short enough to say out loud when someone asks what you're working toward. Translate it into three goals you'll keep — specific enough to measure, small enough to start tomorrow. End with the practice that lets you stay on the path when a hard week tries to pull you off it.
Bonus Module · Career Paths
Stop letting your career happen to you.
Walk through every direction a physician career can move — clinical on your terms, hybrid, non-clinical, or fully outside medicine — without anyone telling you which one to pick. Leave with a clear sense of which direction is calling, and what the real trade-offs of that choice would look like in practice.
Phase IV
Sustain
Build the practices that keep this alive.
After the course · The Sustainable Practice
The companion you keep using long after the last lesson.
The course leaves you with thirty-six completed worksheets. The Sustainable Practice is what keeps you returning to them. Three quick-reference cards for the clinic drawer — DISC at a glance, the four EIQ pillars and their repair moves, your top five strengths. Five "When X Happens" situation sheets for the conversations medicine produces on schedule: the difficult one, the team meeting gone sideways, the case you can't stop replaying, work coming home, the snap moment. A two-page quarterly review you'll actually finish. And a twenty-four-prompt self-coaching deck, organized around the same four phases as the course, for the quarter when you're stuck.
Eight modules, one written plan, done on your schedule.
Enroll now — $475 Not ready? Start with the free Energy AuditHow the course works
Designed for the schedule you have. Not the one you wish you had.
01 · Format
Video lessons under ten minutes each
Thirty-six recorded lessons, deliberately short. Watch one between patients, on a commute, or in the half-hour after the kids go to bed. Every lesson finishes a thought.
02 · Written Work
Lesson-Specific Worksheets
Every lesson ends with a worksheet or a piece of self-work that continues after the video. All printable, fillable PDFs. Together they build into your career blueprint.
03 · Pace and Privacy
Self-paced, private, no enrollment windows
No cohort dates, no group threads, no shared screens. Start the day you enroll. Finish in a weekend or stretch it across six months. Lifetime access means you come back when something changes.
04 · CME
12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, included with enrollment
Approved for 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, jointly provided with the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine. Often eligible for reimbursement from CME funds; check your institution’s policy.
I'm Dr. Ben Reinking. I built this course because I needed it.
I'm a board-certified pediatrician and pediatric cardiologist. I run a clinical division inside an academic medical center. I sit on faculty at the University of Iowa. I trained the way you trained.
And the message I got from day one of medical school was the one you got too — that being a good doctor and being a whole person were two things you had to choose between. The first time I called in sick during residency, covered in hives, the chief resident asked if I knew how busy clinic was. That sentence shaped me. I suspect a version of it shaped you.
I tried meditation, medication, therapy, time blocking, taking weekends off. None of it touched the underlying problem. What finally did was coaching — a method, a framework, and the written work of putting my own values, strengths, and next moves on paper, with someone else's help. That's the same work you'll do here, one lesson at a time. I rebuilt the method into a course for physicians who want to do this work quietly, in the hours they can find, before deciding whether to do anything else with it.
I'm still in clinic. I still lead a division. I do this work because it's the work I needed and couldn't find.
— Ben
Credentials
MCPDC · Master Certified Physician Development CoachBoard-certified pediatrician and pediatric cardiologist · Active practice
Division Director, academic medical center · Clinical Professor, University of Iowa
DISC Certified · EIQ Certified · ICF Member
Enrollment
One enrollment. Lifetime access.
No subscriptions. No upsells inside the course. You buy it once, you have it for as long as the platform exists, and you come back to it whenever the document needs revising.
Self-Paced Course
$475
One payment of $475, or three monthly payments of $175 ($525 total) · Lifetime access
- All eight modules — thirty-six short video lessons, most under ten minutes
- Your VIA Character Strengths, DISC, and EIQ assessments — included with enrollment, no separate purchase required
- 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ included at no additional cost — often eligible for reimbursement from CME funds; check your institution’s policy
- NewThe Sustainable Practice — Field Tools — the durable companion you keep after the last lesson, including three quick-reference cards, five situation sheets, a quarterly review, and a twenty-four-prompt self-coaching deck
- A worksheet with every lesson, building into your personal career plan as you move through the course
- Lifetime access, including any future updates or added lessons
- A 14-day refund window — if the work isn't for you, write us, full refund, no questions
For comparison, one-on-one coaching on the same framework starts at $2,100 for six sessions.
Bought once. Yours to come back to.
Not ready to enroll?
Start with the free Energy Audit. Fifteen minutes and a pen tell you which account is actually overdrawn. Then two weeks of short emails from me.
Send me the auditWhen you want the work built around you
One-on-one coaching exists for the same work, built around your situation.
Some physicians do the course and want to take what they found further — with the work tailored to what they're navigating right now rather than a curriculum. Coaching with Ben is built for exactly that. Two packages, both virtual, both anchored in the same assessments and the same Identify, Align, Develop, Sustain framework as the course.
For departments and institutions
Bring the course to your division, department or program.
The same accredited course, offered to a group. It doesn't ask physicians to absorb a broken system. It helps each of them separate what they can change from what they can't, and act on the part that's theirs.
- Group enrollment for divisions, departments and training programs, priced by group size
- A live session with Dr. Reinking can be added for your group
- Each physician works privately and claims their own 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
- Worksheets are completed on each physician's own copy and are never shared with an employer
Questions
Things physicians ask before enrolling.
How much time does the course take?
Plan on about twelve hours of work, total — combining the video lessons and the workbook reflection. Lessons are deliberately short, most under ten minutes, so you can finish one between patients or after the kids are down. The workbook is where the real work happens — written reflection, the assessments, the document you'll keep. Most physicians spread the twelve hours across four to eight weeks. Some compress it into a long weekend. The work doesn't expire, so the speed is yours to set.
What's included when I enroll?
Thirty-six short video lessons across eight modules. Three professional assessments — the VIA Inventory of Strengths, DISC, and EIQ — included in your enrollment with no separate purchase. A worksheet with every lesson, which together form the career plan you'll write as you move through the course. 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. And The Sustainable Practice — Field Tools, the durable companion you keep using long after the last lesson. Lifetime access to all of it.
Is there a refund policy?
Fourteen days. If you've started the course and decided it isn't the right fit for you, write to us within fourteen days of enrollment for a full refund. No questions, no friction. We'd rather you do work that helps you than feel stuck in something that doesn't.
What about CME credit?
The course is approved for 12 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, jointly provided by the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine (PIM) and The Developing Doctor. The credit is included with enrollment — no separate fee — and it is often eligible for reimbursement from CME funds, so check your institution’s policy. When you finish the lessons and the activity evaluation, you claim your credit and download your certificate through PIM's portal.
What happens after I finish the course?
You're handed The Sustainable Practice — Field Tools, a separate companion designed to be used for years, not weeks. Three quick-reference cards for the clinic drawer. Five "When X Happens" situation sheets for the conversations medicine produces on schedule — the difficult one, the team meeting gone sideways, the case you can't stop replaying, work coming home, the snap moment. A two-page quarterly review you'll actually finish. And a twenty-four-prompt self-coaching deck for the quarter when you're stuck. The Sustainable Practice is built to make a quarterly return to your worksheets easy.
What's the difference between this and coaching?
The course is self-paced, structured around a set curriculum, and $475. One-on-one coaching is built around whatever you're navigating right now, with live sessions and personal feedback from Dr. Reinking, and starts at $2,100 for six sessions. Both use the same framework and the same assessments. Many physicians do the course first and bring their completed plan into coaching later.
Can I really do this work without a coach or a group?
Yes — most of it. The reflective work, the assessments, the workbook, the goal-setting, the framework: all of it is designed to be done alone. What a coach adds is real-time pushback, the experience of saying things out loud to someone who understands the practice, and the accountability of a calendar. If those are essential for you, choose one-on-one coaching. If you want to do the work first and decide later, this is the right starting point.
What if I'm not currently burned out?
Good. The course is most useful done preventively — before the accumulation gets to a point where leaving feels like the only option. Physicians who do this work early treat it as career maintenance: a quarterly return to the document, the way you'd return to your retirement plan or your physical exam. The earlier you start, the more useful it is.
What if I'm thinking about leaving medicine?
The course doesn't tell you whether to leave. It helps you see clearly enough that whatever you decide is a decision you made on purpose, not a decision that medicine made for you. The bonus module covers the four directions a physician career can move — including outside — without prescribing any one of them.
Will I have access to Dr. Reinking?
Not directly within the self-paced course. Personal feedback and live access to Ben are part of what one-on-one coaching provides. If you want that access, coaching is the right place. The course provides Ben's voice through the lessons and the workbook design, but not real-time interaction.
Who built this?
Dr. Ben Reinking — a practicing pediatric cardiologist, division director, and Master Certified Physician Development Coach. The course is built from the same coaching method Ben uses with private coaching clients. His story and credentials are in the founder section above.
How is this different from the wellness modules my institution already offers?
Most institutional modules explain burnout. This course has you do something about the part that's yours: three professional assessments, a worksheet with every lesson, and a written plan for your next twelve months. It doesn't ask you to absorb a broken system. It helps you separate what you can change from what you can't, and act on the part you can.
Can my department or institution enroll a group?
Yes. Group enrollment is available for divisions, departments and training programs, and a live session with Dr. Reinking can be added for your group. Each physician works privately and claims their own CME credit. Worksheets are completed on each physician's own copy and are never shared with an employer. Ask about group enrollment.
Is this therapy?
No. This is an accredited educational course built on a coaching method. It isn't therapy or medical care, and it isn't a substitute for either. If you are struggling with depression or having thoughts of harming yourself, please reach out now: call or text 988, or contact the Physician Support Line.
You don't have to choose between being a great doctor and being a whole person.
But you do have to make the choice. This course is what you do before the next big decision — the job, the leadership role, the step back, the step out, the conversation you've been rehearsing for a month.
Enroll now — $475Some decisions are too big to make tired.
This course is education, not therapy or medical care. If you are struggling with depression or thoughts of harming yourself, call or text 988, or contact the Physician Support Line.