Santina Wheat MD, MPH

Academic Family Physician | Career and Life Coach | Wife and mother

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Category(ies): Family Medicine | Physician | Public Health | Student-Focus/Training

Dr. Wheat is an academic family physician who finds great joy in helping others find their inner potential. She is a program director for the McGaw Northwestern Family Medicine Residency at Delnor Hospital. She is also VC of Health Equity and Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Wheat is active in professional organizations for physicians, family physicians, and educators. Her focus is on belonging, community, and improving access and education.

As a dedicated career and life coach, Dr. Wheat specializes in helping physicians and other healthcare workers overcome burnout and reignite their passion for their profession. She offers the guidance and support needed to thrive in the demanding world of healthcare.

Dr. Wheat enjoys speaking on many topics and am happy to craft conversations on clinical topics, leadership, inclusion, and community.

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Passionate about empowering everyone to rediscover their purpose to increase balance and joy.

Santina Wheat MD, MPH

Passionate about empowering everyone to rediscover their purpose to increase balance and joy.

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Lecture(s)

From Chaos to Calm: Time Management Through Boundaries for Women in Healthcare

Santina Wheat, MD, MPH reframes time management as a boundaries issue, providing practical strategies to protect time, reduce overwhelm, and lead with clarity, confidence, and balance.

Mastering Delegation: Empowering Female Physician Leaders for Success

Santina Wheat MD, MPH teaches female physician leaders effective delegation strategies to enhance leadership, reduce burnout, empower teams, and create actionable plans for successful task delegation.

Ace Your Residency Interview: Stand Out, Shine, and Secure Your Spot

Santina Wheat MD, MPH teaches key strategies to ace your residency interview, from preparation to answering tough questions, and leave a lasting impression that secures your spot.

Course

Dr. Wheat Teaches You to Build Strong Boundaries Without Burnout Out

This course will teach you how to set up boundaries that protect your time, energy, and passion for healthcare WITHOUT feeling guilty.

Speaking

Speaker: Santina Wheat MD, MPH

Inspire, empower, and transform your healthcare team. I help professionals overcome burnout, rediscover purpose, and reclaim joy through engaging, actionable talks on wellness, leadership, and career fulfillment.

PODCAST OR YOUTUBE

Podcast: The Hidden Load

The Hidden Load podcast reveals the unseen weight healthcare professionals carry, and the real strategies, reflections, and stories that help us find balance, purpose, and connection again.

Coaching or Consulting

Coach: Santina Wheat, LLC

Rediscovering purpose to increase balance and joy!

Can Physicians Take Up Space?

Dr. Santina Wheat’s reflection on visibility, professionalism, and the evolving boundaries of physician presence in public spaces.

Can I Respond with Kindness?

Dr. Santina Wheat explains how, when everything feels rushed, kindness begins with a pause.

When Are You Allowed to Take Care of Yourself?

Somewhere along the way, Dr. Santina Wheat writes, we started believing that professional growth only counts when it comes with a certificate, though investment in ourselves can be more personal.

The Hidden We Carry: Redefining Ourselves Beyond Others’ Opinions

Santina Wheat MD, MPH writes that, in the competitive world of medicine, true stability comes from defining your worth by your own values and purpose, and not by others’ opinions or judgments.

Wellness and Excellence Are Not Enemies: A Reconsideration from a Former Skeptic

A former skeptic of burnout prevention explains how she learned that true well-being doesn’t demand sacrificing excellence. It helps sustain it.

The Lesson I Had to Unlearn

Dr. Santina Wheat offers a personal reflection on unlearning blind loyalty to organizations and redefining true professional support through relationships, reassessment, and purposeful growth in healthcare.

Navigating Professional Identity in Medicine with Dr. Wheat [EPISODE]

Dr. Wheat discusses the complexities of professional identity in medicine, exploring how it evolves over time, the challenges faced by physicians, and the impact of social media.

No One Knows What’s Right for You: A Doctor Mom’s Take on the Mommy Wars

Santina Wheat MD, MPH shares an honest reflection on motherhood and medicine, reminding women that true balance comes from personal alignment, not from pleasing others or winning the Mommy Wars.

What Is Happening to Our Professional Identity?

According to Dr. Santina Wheat MD, MPH physician identity is more than just a job title—it’s a deeply ingrained part of who we are, and embracing it while setting healthy boundaries can create a more fulfilling, sustainable career.

No One Feels Heard: The Shared Struggle of Patients and Physicians

Santina Wheat MD, MPH writes about how patients and physicians often feel unheard in the healthcare system, creating frustration and mistrust, and how bridging this gap requires empathy, clear communication, and a shift in how we listen and respond.

Navigating Uncertainty in Healthcare: A Marathon, Not a Sprint

Santina Wheat MD, MPH writes about how, when the ground shifts beneath you in medicine, your purpose becomes your strongest anchor.

Dr. Santina Wheat: Leading with Purpose

Inspired by her mother, Santina Wheat MD, MPH, embraces resilience, empathy, and mentorship to create lasting impact in a rapidly evolving industry.

Humanity in Healthcare: Rediscovering Purpose in a Challenging System

Santina Wheat MD, MPH explores how systemic changes can restore humanity in healthcare, rekindling purpose for providers and trust for patients in an increasingly strained system.

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Latest

What Happens When Medicine Stops Being the Most Important Thing in Your Life?

For physicians, allowing medicine to move down the list can feel strangely like failure. Perhaps that says something about the profession we were trained to enter.

I Don’t Want to Be a Resilient Physician

Healthcare tells physicians to become more resilient. But what if bouncing back is the wrong goal? One physician argues for empathy, mastery, humility, and growth instead.

You Were a Person Before You Became a Physician

Medicine can become so intertwined with identity that physicians forget who they are outside it. What parts of your life belong entirely to you?

The Most Highly Trained Person in the Room May No Longer Be the One in Charge

Physicians remain medicine’s clinical experts, yet many have lost authority over how care is delivered. What happened to physician autonomy, agency, and leverage?