Event Dates:

• April 11 - Resilience

• May 9 - Professionalism

• June 13 - Grief and Loss

• July 27 - Noticing

Presenter: Colleen Camenisch, MBA

Location: Attend from your desktop or phone via Zoom

There is no charge to participate in the sessions, but pre-registration is required.

This program is targeted toward all clinicians who would like to look more deeply into the topics about how to better care for one's self as a clinician and the impact of that on patients, learners, and the practice of medicine.

This one-time per month series offers a variety of topics over the course of one year, which will be delivered in an experiential way. All of the topics will include a research component along with a way to practice what is being learned in the session.

Click here to register for this cohort.

• Learning Objectives

  Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:

  • Session 1 | Resilience | April 11 from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.

    • Cultivate a mindful clinical practice by building awareness and self-compassion

    • Examine the personal and financial toll of clinician distress

    • Provide safe, effective, and ethical care to patients by prioritizing self-care and wellness

  • Session 2 | Professionalism | May 9 from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.

    • Adopt personal strategies for improving responsiveness to challenging situations in the real world

    • Distinguish how by being attentive and mindful, one can practice more ethically and with a higher degree of professionalism.

    • Develop greater awareness of how bringing attentiveness in moment-to-moment challenges of professionalism during clinical practice can have a positive impact on patient care

  • Session 3 | Grief and Loss | June 13 from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.

  • Investigate the impact grief has on the professional and personal lives of the clinician

  • Explore healthy and ethical approaches to working with grief and loss

  • Recognize health care professionals’ experiences of grief and loss and its impact on patient care

  • Session 4 | Noticing | July 27 from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.

    • Explore meaningful experiences in clinical practice and how our attention, intentions and attitudes affect our experiences at work

    • Recognize the tendency of the mind to seek premature closure and how this might impact ethics in patient care

    • Explain how purposeful attentiveness to one’s own mental processes during everyday work is supportive in practicing medicine with clarity and compassion

• Disclosures

  As an accredited provider of continuing medical education through the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine must ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all its educational activities. In order to assure that information is presented in a scientific and objective manner, The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine requires that anyone in a position to control or influence the content of an accredited activity disclose all financial relationships within the prior 24 months with any commercial or proprietary entity producing health care goods or services relevant to the content being planned or presented. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated. Following are those disclosures.

  All presenters, planners or anyone in a position to control the content of this continuing medical education activity have indicated that neither they nor their spouse/legally recognized domestic partner has any financial relationships with commercial interests related to the content of this activity.

• Continuing Education Credit

  Each webinar is 1.00 hour. A maximum of 4.00 hours is available over the course of the 4 sessions.

  Physicians: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint providership of the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine and the Nevada Physician Wellness Coalition (NWPC). The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education to physicians.

  The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  Nurses: The University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine approves this program for 1.00 hour of nursing continuing education credit.

  Ethics: This program provides 1 CME credit towards the Nevada State Board of Medical Examiners' requirement for 2 hours of training related to ethics, pain management, or addiction care during each licensure period.

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