Yale Medicine—U Penn Resilience and Well-being Program for Yale Medicine Physicians

FRIDAY - SUNDAY, OCT 20-22, 2017: 8:00AM-4:30PM

SATURDAY - SUNDAY, NOV 11-12, 2017: 8:00AM-4:30PM

Approved for a maximum of 30.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits(TM).

In collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center, Yale Medicine will be offering a five-day Resilience and Well-being course tailored for physicians. The program will take place over two separate weekends: October 20-22, 2017 (Friday-Sunday) and November 11-12, 2017 (Saturday-Sunday). The goal of this program is to teach resilience skills to Yale Medicine physicians for application in their personal and professional lives, and to study the effectiveness of the program as measured by well-being.

We will be listing more information, as the program develops.

Please note, although there is no fee associated with this CME-sponsored education program, participation in this program will include a pre, post, and three additional quarterly surveys to assess effects. It is also necessary that participants commit to attending all five, full days of instruction.

QUESTIONS? Please contact the Yale Office of CME: [email protected] or (203) 785-4578.

1. Gain an understanding of the factors that contribute to physician burnout
2. Identify how your patterns undermine resilience and wellbeing
3. Discuss the benefits and hallmarks of optimism, ways to regulate emotion and energy levels to enable focus and optimal performance, and techniques to increase experiences of positive emotion in everyday life to buffer against stress
4. Define your top character strengths and the character strengths of those around you, and subsequently leverage your top character strengths to enhance your resilience and well-being and to create a life deep in meaning
5. Recognize key variables that enable relationships to thrive and the relationship building skills that facilitate the creation of robust support networks.

Please note, although there is no fee associated with this CME-sponsored education program, participation in this program will include a pre, post, and three additional quarterly surveys to assess effects. It is also necessary that participants commit to attending all five, full days of instruction.

*Online registration will close the morning of Thursday, October 5th, at 9am. Onsite registrants will not be accepted. Please call in to be put on a wait list. (203-785-4578)

Accreditation Statement

The Yale School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. 

Designation Statement

The Yale School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 30.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits(TM). Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Disclosure Policy

It is the policy of Yale School of Medicine, Continuing Medical Education, to ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor in all its educational programs.  All faculty participating as speakers in these programs are required to disclose any relevant financial relationship(s) they (or spouse or partner) have with a commercial interest that benefits the individual in any financial amount that has occurred within the past 12 months; and the opportunity to affect the content of CME about the products or services of the commercial interests.  The Center for Continuing Medical Education will ensure that any conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity occurs.

Program Overview: We are excited to offer you this five-day resilience and well-being course designed specifically for Yale Medicine physicians. This course will be split across two weekends and will equip you with actionable skills to enhance your ability to overcome adversity and challenges, manage stress, and thrive in your professional and personal life. In this highly experiential workshop, you will collaborate with your colleagues, engage in practical exercises, get personalized coaching and feedback from the instructors, and discuss strategies for maintaining the skills after the course concludes.     

The Penn Resilience and Well-Being Program is being delivered by the University of Pennsylvania’s Positive Psychology Center. Empirical studies show that this program increases well-being and optimism, and reduces depression and anxiety. More than 500,000 people around the world have benefitted from the Center’s programs, including educators and their students, U.S. Army soldiers, a professional sports organization, corporate audiences, and more.

Program Outline: Following are the core blocks of content that will be covered during the 5-day program. For each block, we will review supporting research, engage in experiential exercises, and discuss the applications of the skills to your life as a Yale Medicine physician.

Introduction/Program Framework: We will first focus on understanding the factors that contribute to physician burnout, and discuss the science of what enables people to bounce back from adversity and thrive, and what increases overall well-being.

Enhancing Cognitive and Emotional Well-being: In this block, we will help you to identify and overcome counterproductive patterns in thinking that undercut well-being. You will learn about the benefits and hallmarks of optimism, including how to accurately identify where you have control. These skills will also help you regulate emotion and energy levels to enable focus and optimal performance, and increase your experiences of positive emotion in everyday life to buffer against stress.

Building Character Strengths: In this block, we will help you identify your top character strengths and the character strengths of those around you. We will delve into how you can leverage your top character strengths to enhance your resilience and well-being and to create a life deep in meaning.

Building Strong Relationships: This block is an exploration of key variables that enable relationships to thrive and the relationship building skills that facilitate the creation of robust support networks.

Program Wrap-up: At the end of the course, we will summarize the content covered during the 5-days and discuss your “next steps” for using resilience and well-being skills in your life as a physician.

Schedule:

Breakfast will be served from 8:00am – 9:00am daily.

The program will run from 9:00am to approximately 4:30pm each day. There will be morning and afternoon breaks, and lunch served daily.

There will be a total of 30 hours of instruction across the 5 days. 

This educational activity will be held at the Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale, located at 155 Temple Street, New Haven, CT.

Phone: (203) 772-6664

FROM I-95 NORTH AND I-95 SOUTH: Take Exit #47 and proceed onto Route 34. Take Exit #1 on Route 34 and follow to the first traffic light. Turn right at light (Church Street) and follow to the third traffic light. Turn left at the third traffic light (Chapel Street) and follow to the first traffic light – turn left (Temple Street) and the hotel is on your left (155 Temple Street). Directional city signage (Large yellow signs) is also available to assist from the I-95 exits.

FROM I-91 SOUTH:Take Exit # 3 (Trumbull Street) – go to the third traffic light and take a left onto Temple Street. Follow Temple Street and proceed through three traffic lights. After the third traffic light, the Omni is located on the left (155 Temple Street).

Parking

On-site valet ($28.75 per night) and covered self-parking ($23 fee includes in/out privileges) Prices subject to change. *Parking will be validated at the registration table. Please bring your parking receipt to the meeting each morning.*

Course Co-Directors:

Ronald J. Vender MD

Professor of Medicine

Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Yale School of Medicine

Chief Medical Officer, Yale Medicine

Medical Director, Yale CME

Kristine Olson, MD, MS

Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine

Medical Doctor at Yale-New Haven Hospital

Training Team:

Karen Reivich, Ph.D. Dr. Reivich is the Director of Training Programs at the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center. She is the lead curriculum developer and instructor, and trains and supervises all training instructors. She earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and is an instructor in the Penn Master of Applied Positive Psychology program (MAPP).

Dr. Karen Reivich is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of resilience, depression prevention, and Positive Psychology. She has more than 30 years of experience developing and delivering resilience and Positive Psychology programs for educators and their students, U.S. Army soldiers, a professional sports organization, corporate audiences, and more. As lead instructor of the Penn Resilience Program, she has worked with more than 10,000 participants.

Dr. Reivich’s scholarly work focuses on helping parents, educators, and leaders to promote resilience and well-being in adolescents and adults. For 20 years, she was a Co-Principal Investigator of several research studies of the Penn Resilience Programs funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the U.S. Department of Education. Dr. Reivich has published extensively in academic journals and edited books in the areas of Positive Psychology and resilience. Her scholarly publications have appeared in academic journals including Psychological Science, Journal of Early Adolescence, School Psychology Quarterly, Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, and Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. She is a co-author of two books: The Optimistic Child and The Resilience Factor.

Dr. Reivich and her work have been featured in a variety of news and media outlets including Oprah, Prime Time Live, The Early Show, ABC Nightly News, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, Parenting Magazine, The New York Times, US News and World Report, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, US Today, and The Orlando Sentinel.

Judy Saltzberg, Ph.D. Dr. Saltzberg is a curriculum developer and training program instructor at the University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her graduate work explored cognitive strategies women use to cope with breast cancer. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive therapy under the direction of Aaron T. Beck. 

She has worked on the Penn Resilience Programs for the past 25 years, teaching resilience skills to a wide range of populations. She is also an instructor in the Penn Master of Applied Positive Psychology program (MAPP). A Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, she maintains a private clinical psychology practice in the Philadelphia area.

Jordyn Feingold, M.A.P.P. Ms. Feingold is a medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where she is working toward her combined MD/Masters in Clinical and Translational Research. Ms. Feingold earned a Master of Applied Positive Psychology degree at the University of Pennsylvania where she received honors distinction for her capstone "Toward a Positive Medicine: Healing our Healers from Burnout to Flourishing." She also earned her undergraduate degree in Health and Societies from the University of Pennsylvania.

Ms. Feingold is a founding member of the student-trainee division of CHARM (the Collaborative for Healing and Renewal in Medicine), a national network of medical students and residents working together with physicians to identify best practices around physician well-being in order to promote the resilience of medical practitioners.

Presented by University of Pennsylvania Positive Psychology Center, Yale Medicine and Yale School of Medicine.