SIG | Professional Wellness in Epilepsy Care: Professional Wellness in Epilepsy Care
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
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OVERVIEW:
This Special Interest Group highlights initiatives that successfully promote professional health in the workplace.
This session focuses on interventions and their implementation for individual and group wellness to increase professional health and wellness in the workplace. Evidence-based assessment of wellness suggests that only mindfulness and coaching have proven efficacy. However, reading, narrative medicine, and medical humanities are being recognized as means to gain perspective and interactions with others to increase resilience and wellbeing.
Presenters address how initiatives in the area of promoting wellness in neurology can be more successfully implemented after initating pilot projects, using experience from other organizations and societies as a model for supporting self-care and employee wellness for epilepsy professionals, which in turn helps providers deliver the best care of patients with seizure disorders.
Learning Objectives:
Following participation in this activity, participants will be able to:
- Discuss the benefit of reading and narrative medicine to enhance resilience and wellness
- Apply ideas for improving workplace wellness into their departments and group practices
- Summarize the causes and drivers of professional burnout
Program:
SIG Coordinators: Cormac O'Donovan, MD, Steven Schachter, MD, FAES, and Lauren Frey, MD, FAES
Chair: Cormac O'Donovan, MD
So You Thought You Could Read? | Daniel Marchalik, MD
Doing Wellness Well: Lessons from Well-Being Initiatives in Neurology | Jeffery Dewey, MD, MHS
Physician Wellness During the Pandemic – Lessons for Post-Pandemic | Trudy Pang, MD
Using Scientific Methods to Study Wellness Behaviors | Lauren Frey, MD, FAES