Mindful Medical Practitioners by Patricia Lynn Dobkin & Craig Stephen Hassed

Author:Patricia Lynn Dobkin & Craig Stephen Hassed
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Responding to suffering

Compassionate action

When things go wrong

Grief and loss

Resilience

The present moment

Uncertainty

Conflict

Professionalism

How doctors think

Time

Self-care and burnout

Interpersonal mindfulness: awareness in action

Finding balance at work and home

Death and dying

Teamwork and partnership

4.3.3 Faculty Development

It was recognised early in the developmental process that if this curriculum was to become a permanent and dynamic part of the medical student (and resident) experience, faculty from each of the clinical services in which the students are rotating should be facilitators. The reasoning may seem obvious, but it is worth mentioning. The qualities and skills promoted in the Mindful Practice curriculum for students to acquire should be important enough for faculty to acknowledge the same for themselves. Therefore, facilitators who embody these qualities through their own way of being as physicians and as teachers, and who represent these qualities and values as being core to their own clinical domains, can best represent this curriculum and teach it with the most relevance.

Over a year before the curriculum was rolled out into the third year clerkship experience, and given that there had already been a history of physician-focused Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programs that many academic and nonacademic physicians had attended, we identified faculty from the Departments of Medicine, Family Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry and Surgery who might be interested in participating as facilitators. Several members from each of these departments agreed to participate in a year-long faculty development training program. This program included regular gatherings where this interdisciplinary group practised mindfulness meditation (all had at least taken an MBSR course previously or concurrently), with separate seminars on narrative medicine and Appreciative Inquiry. We are indebted to the participation of a number of colleagues who assisted in our faculty development process. They include the following:Michael Baime MD, Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Founder and Director of the Penn Program for Mindfulness.

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