Events

Master Class for Senior Educators - Developing Resilience in Doctors

Overview

An academic series of expert classes mainly held at Deanery House in Bristol on topical and emerging areas of importance in medical education for Postgraduate Medical Education. They are open to HEE Southwest, Postgraduate Medical Educational Teams, Educators in Trusts and GP Trainers. Global and nationally important speakers and subject experts are sought and invited.

Aim

A programme of faculty development for senior educators in the Severn and Peninsula to assist in creating a consistent understanding about current developments and issues affecting medical education.

 

Reasons for offering this Master Class:

Psychological resilience is the ability to properly adapt to stress and adversity. These can come in many forms including family or relationship problems, health problems, or workplace and financial pressures.  Individuals demonstrate resilience when they can face difficult circumstances or experiences and rise above them with ease. Resilience is not a rare ability and it can be learned and developed by virtually anyone. As our trainees doctors work in a demanding and stressful profession with constant multiple demands it is important that they develop emotional and psychological resilience early on. This Master Class explores what resilience is and how to develop and enhance this in ourselves and others

Speaker details:

With a background in medicine, psychology, group work and coaching, Chris Johnstone is a specialist in the psychology of resilience, happiness and positive change. After working for many years as an addictions specialist in the NHS, he now focuses on coaching, writing and training, particularly through the new distance learning programme he has set up at The Centre for Resilience, Happiness and Positive Change. He is in demand as a speaker and trainer on the psychology of change, especially in relation to health-related behaviour, mood improvement and global issues. His first book, ‘Find Your Power’, is one of the few self-help books to address both personal and planetary concerns. His newest book, ’Active Hope’, co-authored with Joanna Macy, was published in March 2012. Chris is founding-director of the Centre for Resilience, Happiness and Positive Change. He is also a fine musician, known for his hammered dulcimer and harmonica playing

Aim of this master class:

To explore what resilience is, the life enhancing benefits it brings to us, and how to develop it in our postgraduate medical trainees

Objectives: by the end of the master class participants will be able to:

• Define what psychological resilience is and how it is learned
• Summarise what being resilient involves including how to recognise and manage the effects of personal pressure and difficult life and work circumstances
• List the main blocks to acquiring and maintaining resilience at work and in life and review our own capacity to be resilient
• Consider how the social and environmental context in which we live and treat patients affects them and us and can erode resilience
• Outline a range of ways to enable our trainees to become more resilient

  

To book a place please email Severn Education Team. When emailing please confirm the event title and the date you are interested in attending.