Rethinking the Practice of Medicine: How to Thrive in Today's Healthcare World
hosted byContinuing Education IncRethinking the Practice of Medicine: How to Thrive in Today's Healthcare World is organized by Continuing Education, Inc. and will be held from Aug 16 - 23, 2024 at Celebrity Edge, Seattle, Washington, United States of America.
Program Purpose:
This highly interactive two-part course is taught by two psychologists with a combined career focus on working with healthcare professionals that exceeds 50 years. It offers strategies that allow healthcare professionals to not only survive, but to thrive in the new health care environment. And it goes beyond helping to prevent burnout, to show how to create an organizational foundation for joy in medicine, improve?practice efficiency, and build trust with patients in a way that makes any professional a better healer.
Dr. Paolini's Sessions:
• 3 Keys to Overcoming Burnout
• Designing your Practice for Maximum Success and Fulfillment
• Tools for Enlisting Patients into Needed Lifestyle Changes
• The Art of Listening and Creating Safe Spaces
• Dealing with Conflict and Facilitating Crucial Conversations (Differentiation & Attunement)
• Cultivating Personal & Organizational Health
• Overcoming Personal and Organizational Immunity to Change
• Physician Leadership for Transformative Change in Health Care
Dr. Spruill's Sessions:
Assessment of Suicidal Risk in Primary Care
• Discuss risk factors and warning signs and will be better able to identify those at imminent risk (including physician peers) and refer them to specialists trained in treating suicidal individuals
Integrating Behavioral Health Services in Primary Care Offices
• Be aware of the prevalence and co-morbidity of mental health concerns in traditional medical practices
• Be aware of the need for both co-training of medical and mental health professionals as well as the value of integrating mental health providers as members of the care team in mainstream medical practices
• Utilize the "warm hand-offs" approach as a means of readily connecting those in need of mental health services with integrated mental health providers
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and their Effects on Patient Wellness
• Appreciate the value of identifying those patients whose medical and psychological problems can be attributed to the long-term effects of ACEs<.li>
Screen for ACEs in pediatric populations to prevent chronic negative medical or psychological outcomes
• Better understand the underlying pathophysiology related to the sustained activation of the body's stress response on general health and psychological well-being
• Identify patients whose ACEs have not been addressed, and refer to mental health professionals for treatment
What is the Role that "Choice" Plays in Fostering Happiness and Well-being
• Develop an enhanced understanding of the role that personal choice plays in the degree of happiness and self-determination they experience
• Identify the value of intrinsic vs. extrinsic rewards and their role in the practice of mindfulness
• Be aware of "stimulus control" as an effective method for reversing "mindless" behaviors
• Understand how too many options can cause paralysis and distress
• List five evidence-based choices that lead to greater happiness
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. ?How to Improve your Press Ganey (or HCAHPS) Scores
• Identify the specific behaviors that convey respect to their patients
How to Cut the Number of "Heartsink" Patients in your Practice in Half
• Discuss the factors that researchers have found contribute to what healthcare providers describe as "difficult" patient encounters
• Be aware of what patient, clinic and physician characteristics contribute to such encounters and in doing so they will be able to reduce the frequency of these encounters in their medical practice
What Physician Behaviors Set Them Apart as Exemplary (as Perceived by their Peers)
• Identify which behaviors and competencies are most important in being viewed as exemplary by their peers
• Develop a strategy to incorporate these factors into interactions with peers
• As an educator emphasize those factors in the training of new providers
Thinking Errors: Don't Believe Everything You Think
• List the specific types of thinking errors, and give examples of how they can lead to poor outcomes
• Be prepared to avoid such errors and to regularly evaluate and reflect on their thinking processes rather than taking them at face value.