Introductory Workshops
Facilitator Training
NEW!
Online Self-Study Course
A 7-hour skills-building course built for enhancing your well-being and addressing clinician burnout
Prevent burnout, experience greater well-being, energize your clinical work, and find joy, resilience, and community.
Learn the Tools to Help You Enjoy Your Practice Again
Hone self-awareness, deep listening skills, compassion, and community, to help you to flourish at work
Sessions focusing on stressful and demanding situations and helping you thrive in challenging times – teamwork, encountering suffering, managing conflict, responding to errors, and grief and loss.
Improve your relationships with patients and colleagues, and transform health systems, to advance the quality of the medical care you provide.
Learn proven techniques to reduce stress, anxiety, burnout, and compassion fatigue.
Online CME Accreditation
The Center for Emergency Medical Education (CEME) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Center for Emergency Medical Education (CEME) designates this self-study activity for a maximum of 7.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The AOA automatically recognizes AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ as AOA Category 2 credit.
Both PA and NP organizations recognize AMA PRA Category 1 credit™ as approved CME.
Target Audience
This online course is intended for physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, medical educators and other health professionals, in all settings and specialties, who wish to experience greater joy in practice, address work-related stress and demanding situations, and reduce burnout and moral distress.
Learning Objectives
After completing the Flourishing in Medicine online course, participants will be able to:
Describe organizational and individual factors in burnout and moral distress in medicine.
Discuss individual and structural/systemic changes that can help health professionals and medical organizations flourish.
Incorporate key skills into clinical practice and teaching to reduce burnout and stress, and enhance joy and meaning.
Increase clinician self-awareness and self-monitoring during clinical work and teaching.
Increase clinicians’ ability to attend to patient’s needs, reduce and respond to errors, practice with greater effectiveness and compassion, and attend to their own well-being.
An Introduction to Mindful Practice in Medicine: Flourishing in Clinical Care
Online Workshop
Our Introductory Workshop (3.5 hr.) is a live on-line interactive workshop, developed by physicians for medical practitioners and educators to bring greater joy and connection to their work and enhance quality of care, while re-energizing clinical practice in this challenging time in medicine.
By participating, you will work towards:
enhancing joy and well-being
effectively managing challenges
becoming more self-aware
feeling more engaged
reducing stress
becoming part of our community
This workshop is facilitated by the founders of the evidence-based Mindful Practice in Medicine Program at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, training health professionals worldwide to enhance flourishing in their work for over 15 years.
Workshop Details
Online Workshop Dates:
March 24, 2024 | 11:00am-2:30pm EST
Cost: $175
Accreditation and Certification
ACCREDITATION
The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
CERTIFICATION
The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.25 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Find joy and resilience, and enhance quality of care
A retreat-like workshop
Please join us for our online, retreat-like workshop designed to energize your clinical work while helping you find joy and resilience, through honing your self-awareness and deep listening skills that are keys to navigating stressful and demanding situations you face daily.
Enrollment is limited to 40 participants. No prior experience is required.
Developed by physicians
This online workshop, developed by physicians to help medical practitioners and educators respond to the erosion of joy in their work, provides a creative, online experiential and interactive learning environment. Our approach is evidence based–as it lessens the effects of burnout and improves well-being, engagement with work, and patient-centered compassionate care.
Despite the “virtual” nature of this online program, the actual experience is far from virtual. Rather, the program is dynamic and interactive and participants’ engagement is very tangible and present. We create a learning community using asynchronous multimedia presentations and reflective activities and live (synchronous) interactive large group presentations, paired dialogues, contemplative practices, and small group discussions to provide a fully embodied experience. The online format offers new possibilities for engagement educational and practice settings, time zones and continents, including opportunities for connections with one another beyond the confines of the course.
Learn how to:
find meaning in your work
be more resilient
effectively manage challenges in clinical work
listen more deeply
improve communication
cultivate compassion and gratitude
experience clarity and focus
become more self-aware
be a part of a larger community
Clarify and focus on your own learning needs
Contemplative practices, dialogues with colleagues and inquiry-oriented group discussions will enhance your ability to focus, connect and communicate with patients and colleagues.
World-wide community
Join physicians, PAs, NPs, and other health professionals from over 20 countries worldwide.
At the conclusion of this activity, you will be able to:
apply self–awareness and self-monitoring during clinical work and teaching
demonstrate skills in attending to patient’s needs, effective clinical practice and compassionate care
effectively manage challenges at work and practice ways to attend to your own well-being
Conference Details
When and Where
February 21-24, 2024: Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Alberta, Canada
May 1 – 4, 2024: Chapin Mill Retreat Center, Batavia, NY
Faculty
Ron Epstein, MD
Mick Krasner, MD
Fred Marshall, MD
Paula Gardiner, MD
Accreditation and Certification
ACCREDITATION
The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
CERTIFICATION
The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry designates this live activity for a maximum of 23.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
SOCIAL WORK
University of Rochester Medical Center, Center for Experiential Learning is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0005.
This course has been approved for 23.00 hours.
Chapin Mill Retreat Center
Batavia, NY
By application only. Prior attendance at a Mindful Practice in Medicine® workshop is required.
For more information please contact us at: mindfulpractice@urmc.rochester.edu
Deepen your skills
Participating in this 5-day retreat-like workshop will enable you to advance your teaching skills and energize your clinical work through greater attentiveness, self-awareness, teamwork, and self-monitoring in stressful and demanding clinical situations.
Energize your clinical work and teaching
You will develop greater expertise, self-awareness, deep listening and resilience in your role as clinician and teacher. You will help yourself and your future students find joy, provide compassionate care and navigate stressful and demanding situations that clinicians face daily.
Clarify and focus on your own learning needs
We create a learner-centered environment that helps you define and realize you own learning goals, and we promote a learning community in which you will learn from facilitators and colleagues.
Limited to 24 participants.
A participatory, "virtual," online program, where the actual experience is far from virtual. Rather, the program is dynamic and interactive and participants’ engagement is very tangible and present. We create a learning community using asynchronous multimedia presentations and reflective activities and live (synchronous) interactive large group presentations that combine didactic presentations and practical training in conducting experiential exercises using narratives, appreciative interviews, inquiry-oriented discussions, and contemplative practices such as mindfulness meditation. The online format offers new possibilities for engagement in educational and practice settings and time zones and continents, including opportunities for connections with one another beyond the confines of the course. You will receive guidance in teaching and facilitation skills in large- and small-group settings.
Designed by physicians for medical practitioners (physicians, NPs, PAs) and others involved in medical practice and medical education.
Implement Mindful Practice in Medicine® programs
You will learn how to implement programs in medical education and healthcare institutions.
A world-wide reach
Connect with Mindful Practice facilitators from over 20 countries.
At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
Articulate principles of and evidence supporting mindful practice programs.
Demonstrate skills in introducing, guiding, and embodying individual contemplative practices.
Demonstrate skills in introducing and conducting key interpersonal elements of mindful practice programs, including salon, narrative exercises, appreciative interviews, and inquiry.
Demonstrate teaching and facilitation skills in large-group and small-group settings.
Demonstrate how to anticipate and respond to commonly encountered learner difficulties during mindful practice programs.
Describe ways of incorporating mindful practice into healthcare institutions.
Facilitator Training Workshop Eligibility Requirements
Prior attendance at a Mindful Practice in Medicine® Workshop of 20 hours or more. This requirement can only be fulfilled by having attended a 4-day Mindful Practice in Medicine® workshop in person or online.
Active meditation practice
Experience teaching health profession students, residents and/or practitioners
Conference Details
When and Where
Upcoming Dates TBA
Accreditation and Certification
ACCREDITATION
The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
CERTIFICATION
The University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry designates this live activity for a maximum of 31.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
