COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™14 ACPE Credits
14.0 Contact Hours
COURSE FEES
TARGET AUDIENCE
PROGRAM PURPOSE
- 3 Keys to Overcoming Burnout
- Develop and practice strategies for sustaining personal well-being and professional satisfaction
- Designing Your Practice for Maximum Success and Fulfillment
- Conduct a practical assessment of their current medical practice
- Develop a plan to design it for improved fulfillment and success
- Tools for Enlisting Patients into Needed Lifestyle Changes
- Acquire and practice practical skills to enlist patients into needed lifestyle changes
- The Art of Listening and Creating Safe Spaces
- Increased ability to communicate and enlist others into a collaborative space
- Dealing with Conflict and Facilitating Crucial Conversations
- Improved communication with patients and clinical team
- Cultivating Personal and Organizational Health
- Conduct a personal assessment and plan of care to sustain one's own health and to nurture the health of one's organization
- Overcoming Personal and Organizational Immunity to Change
- Develop an understanding of change management and how to promote and manage personal and organizational change
- 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
- Introduction to Motivational Interviewing
- Be aware of the specific stages in the process of change
- Discuss the principles underlying M.I.
- Utilize specific M.I. techniques that can be easily integrated into their interaction with patients without significantly lengthening the duration of the exam
- 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 mindfulnessBe 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
- 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