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Three accounts.
One of yours is overdrawn.

A 15-minute self-audit for physicians who have been told to take care of themselves and have run out of patience for the advice. Find the account that's actually empty — and the one practice that refills it.

A companion to The Career Architecture Document, the workbook physicians complete inside The Developing Doctor's online course.
15 min Time to complete
8 pages Editorial workbook
3 Accounts assessed
$0 No upsell on the page
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What you'll have, fifteen minutes from now

Not a quiz.
A reality check.

Most physician self-assessments confirm what you already suspected and stop there. This one names which of three accounts is actually overdrawn — because the practice that refills your physical reserves cannot, will not, fix the relational ones. The accounts are different. The interventions are different. The audit shows you which.

  • 01

    The three-account framework

    Physical, Emotional, Spiritual. Adapted from the Schwartz energy management literature and grounded in physician burnout research from the Mayo Clinic.

  • 02

    18 self-assessment questions

    Six per account. Five-point scale. Specific enough to be honest with, not so granular you give up halfway.

  • 03

    A score interpretation that names where you are

    Funded. Running low. Overdrawn. In deficit. The labels are honest because the work requires it.

  • 04

    The 30-second between-patient reset

    One technique. Repeatable on the busiest day of the week. Borrows from the "doorknob moment" mindfulness literature validated in medical education.

  • 05

    Six replenishment practices that actually fit a clinical week

    Two per account. Not aspirational. The kind you can do this Tuesday between patients, not next sabbatical.

Honest about fit

Who this is for.
And who it isn't.

A free audit shouldn't waste fifteen minutes of a physician's life. Here is the honest version of who this works for.

This audit is for you if

  • You have explained your exhaustion to yourself five different ways and the explanations have stopped working.
  • You have tried "self-care" and found that it touched something, but not the thing.
  • You sit through a kid's soccer game and check your phone three times without meaning to.
  • You suspect the issue is not what you are doing, but what doing it has been costing you.
  • You want a tool, not a sermon.

This audit is not for you if

  • You are looking for permission to leave medicine. (This isn't that. There is honest writing about leaving — this isn't that piece.)
  • You want a one-week burnout fix. The audit will name the deficit; refilling it will take longer than a week.
  • You want generic wellness advice. There are entire industries for that. This is not one of them.
  • You are not yet willing to write down what is true. The audit only works if you do.
About the author

"I built this audit because the version of it I needed in residency didn't exist. The advice I was given was true and useless. I wanted something honest enough to read on a Saturday morning without resenting it."

Dr. Ben Reinking, MD

Master Certified Physician Development Coach  ·  ICF Member
Board Certified Pediatrician & Pediatric Cardiologist
Division Director · Faculty, University of Iowa
DISC & EIQ Certified

Last call

Fifteen minutes,
more honest than the last six months.

The audit will not change your life. It will name what's overdrawn — which is the only place a real practice begins. That is more than most wellness brochures will give you in an afternoon.