Backlog Success Template Live
Get back in control of your clinical day with a physician-led experience designed to help you approach your backlog in a more manageable way.
We’ve been given too much. Structure is how we protect ourselves.
It is 7:30 PM.
The last patient left two hours ago. You are still at the clinic. You texted your family: "Running a bit late." Again.
You leave with charts still open. Dinner is rushed. At 9:45 PM, you open the laptop "just for 20 minutes." It turns into 90. You close it feeling behind, frustrated, and quietly ashamed.
On Saturday, you "just pop into the office." On vacation, you log in "quickly." The backlog follows you everywhere.
Sound familiar? You're not alone.
Most clinicians are not struggling because they are not working hard enough. The problem is not you. The problem is that you have never been given a structured approach to work through it.
Inadequate allocated time within the clinical day for in-basket tasks
No clear structure for approaching the backlog
Decision fatigue that makes every incomplete item feel heavier
The guilt and shame that builds around delayed completion
Difficulty knowing where to even start
Mental exhaustion that turns avoidance into procrastination
It doesn't have to be this way.Â
Most clinicians have never been shown how to approach backlog in a way that actually works.
That’s what this challenge is designed to change.
A different way to think about backlog
The Backlog Success Template Live is a free, structured experience designed to help you approach your backlog in a way that actually reduces overwhelm, builds structure, and creates forward momentum.
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You are not expected to finish everything. You are expected to leave feeling more in control, and capable of having more success with every backlog session going forward.
Event Details
Thursday, May 7th, 2026
6:30pm MT / 8:30pm ET
Session 1:
Why Backlog Feels So Heavy and What Actually Works
Learn the executive function tools that help you optimize backlog completion. Understand why avoidance is normal, and exactly what to do about it.
Saturday, May 9th, 2026
8:00 am MT / 10:00 am ET
Backlog PartyÂ
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A structured working session designed to help you start, reduce resistance, and move through your backlog in real time.
Friday, May 15th, 2026
6:30pm MT / 8:30pm ET
Session 2:
How to Keep Momentum: Common pitfalls that slow us down and tools to overcome these
Learn strategies to use when you feel stuck or weighed down by the backlog.
Saturday, May 16th, 2026
8:00 am MT / 10:00 am ET
Backlog Party
A second structured working session to continue building momentum, reduce hesitation, and strengthen your approach.
Backlog Parties are 3-hour quiet working sessions with our physician host, Dr. Rebecca Saunders.
Teaching Sessions are 30 to 60 minutes with clinical day advisor and Charting Coach, Dr. Sarah Smith.Â
This challenge exists because the problem is not just you.
 The volume is high.
The time isn’t allocated.
The system wasn’t built with your in-basket in mind.
There are strategies that can help, and this is where you learn them.
Meet Your Facilitators
Dr. Sarah Smith
Dr. Sarah Smith in her clinical role is a Rural Family Doctor, General Practitioner and Rural Emergency Department Physician. Dr Smith is more widely known in medical spaces as a Clinical Day Advisor and the Charting Coach for Doctors, Residents, Registrars and Clinicians.
Dr Smith has a passion for helping reduce healthcare burnout and administrative burnout with specific strategies to help Doctors and Clinicians create a sustainable clinical practice within the clinical environments that they work in.
Dr. Rebecca Saunders
Dr. Rebecca Saunders is the Physician Lead at Thought Architects, a medical doctor, mentor, and a leader in healthcare. She is dedicated to building resilience in physicians to help them manage stress and excel both personally and professionally. Using coaching skills, she makes resilience-building concrete, shaped by her own journey through burnout. Dr. Saunders graduated from the University of Alberta, completed her residency at the University of Calgary, and practiced in Alberta, BC, and Seattle, where she was named one of Seattle’s top doctors. She returned to Alberta in 2009, starting her own practice in Beaumont, and is a PCN Board Member, mother of two, dog mom, and outdoor enthusiast.
