LSU Wellness Krewe's
Self Care for Health Care Lecture Series
Thursday, September 19, 2019
NEW SESSION ADDED DUE TO DEMAND
Thursday, October 17, 2019
Both Classes will be held:
LSU Student Learning Center, Lion's Building 6th Floor
12:00 - 1:00 pm
Sign up for this lecture to learn strategies
to improve your resilience and alleviate burnout in 2019.
About the Course:
The session is an introduction to a course that teaches concepts and skills to help individuals
- Cope with the stress, pain, and challenges of everyday life
- Deal with disturbing events with grace and composure
- Be present and alive in the here and now
- The one hour session includes information re: mindfulness, guided meditation, and small group interactions.
Space is limited to 30.
About the longer course: Through guided meditation and brief exercises, participants will learn to develop mindfulness that will help them experience the present moment during everyday activities. Although no specific outcome is promised, participants typically report feeling more focused, more “in-tune” with themselves and others. In addition, research suggests significant beneficial effects in dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, high blood pressure, chronic pain, and diabetes.
The goal of the LSUHSC Wellness Committee is to promote a healthy learning and working environment, building resiliency, and personal well-being among faculty, staff, residents, and students in LSUHSC School of Medicine and the Health Sciences Center. The workshop covers the importance of resilience and ways to prevent burnout.
What you’ll learn:
At the conclusion of this activity, the learner should be better able to:
- Identify strategies to decrease feelings of stress and burnout in 2019
- Maximize positive technique that will decrease feelings of stress and burnout in medical school, residency and beyond.
- Implement best practices for decreasing stress and burnout.
Faculty
Jayashree Rao, MD
Dr. Jayashree Rao is a retired pediatric endocrinologist, who spent thirty years teaching, researching, and practicing medicine at LSU Health Sciences Center and Children’s Hospital. For the past several years, Dr. Rao has practiced and led others in the art and science of mindfulness, employing techniques learned in the Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) course offered by Dr. Dave Potter.
Course Planners
Edward Trapido, ScD, F.A.C.E.
Chair of the Wellness Subcommittee Education
LSU School of Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana
Karen Eigenbrod
Lauren A. Davis, MD
LSU Wellness Krewe
The LSU Wellness Krewe's purpose is to promote a healthy learning and working environment, building resiliency, and personal well-being among faculty, staff, residents, and students in LSUHSC School of Medicine and the Health Sciences Center.
The content within the wellness committee website offers information on well-being, stress, depression, alcohol use, suicide, mindfulness, PTSD, work-life balance and other resources that are helpful for our working community. Take a look at the information, think about areas within your daily routines that may be beneficial to change, and consider implementing these strategies.
https://www.medschool.lsuhsc.edu/wellness/
Accreditation
The Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation
The Louisiana State University School of Medicine, New Orleans designates thish live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Disclosure
LSUSOMNO ensures balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all of its educational activities. Faculty, planners or anyone in a position to control content are required to disclose to participants any financial relationships they may have had with commercial interests within the last 12 months, including in-kind donations. A commercial interest is any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by or used on patients. Disclosure of financial relationships must be made during the planning stages of the activity, and all relationships thus disclosed are communicated to the audience prior to the activity.
Course presenters are required to disclose to the LSUHSC office of CME and to learners when they plan to discuss or demonstrate pharmaceuticals and/or medical devices that are not approved by the FDA and/or medical or surgical procedures that involve an unapproved or “off-label” use of an approved device or pharmaceutical. To view the FDA policy on Disclosure of Off-Label product use, please visit the following web page: http://www.fda.gov/RegulatoryInformation/Guidances/ucm125126.html.
LSU School of Medicine – New Orleans (LSUSOM-NO) is the provider of Continuing Medical Education credit for this activity. The planning and presentation of all LSUSOM-NO activities ensure balance, independence, objectivity and scientific rigor made during the planning stages of the activity, and all relationships thus disclosed are communicated to the audience prior to the activity.