Physician Education

Build, Break, & Restore Trust

How can we create an environment that increases trust between the doctor and patient? 

• The doctor patient relationship is the main stay of clinical practice.  From the time of hippocrates, the doctor patient relationship has been held sacrosanct.
•  From the turn of the century until the early 1970’s, paternalism dominated  (physician makes decisions patient relinquishes control).
•  Through the last twenty years of the century, autonomy replaced paternalism and the patient dominated in decision making with the physician assuming an advisory role. 
• As we begin the twenty-first century, the pendulum seems to be moving to the center with the development of shared decision making.
•  With reimbursement assuming a dominating role in clinical decision making, managed care has come between the doctor and the patient. 
• This workshop will explore the barriers perceived by both the doctor and the patient to a successful relationship and offer potential solutions and tools to manage the relationship.

Balance Personal and Professional life!

How can physicians balance family demands with the professional responsibility to our patients?

• Physicians trained in the 1960’s and 1970s were exposed to the work ethic that patient responsibility is premier to any other issue.
•  However, physicians trained later developed first an ethic that their individual needs were paramount.
•  During the first part of this century, the work ethic and home responsibility are equal but frequently managed care promotes a concept of banker’s hours—0900 to 1700 hrs.
•  This work shop will explore the factors that determine a work ethic that expands the 0900 to 1700 approach.   Various barriers to professional and personal satisfaction will be indentified and strategy promoted to close the gaps. 
• Conflict, Construct, and Criticize—how do we create a collegial and non critical environment?
• Throughout the entire medical education process, “rightness” and “wrongness” are paramount.  There is no such thing as clinical judgment but only whether outcomes are right or wrong. 
• This concept is driven by legal liability with the constant threat of malpractice.
•  This workshop will promote how to create a constructive, creative and non judgmental environment.

Conform, Comply, or Confront?

Conflict, Construct, and Criticize—how do we create a collegial and non critical environment?

• Throughout the entire medical education process, “rightness” and “wrongness” are paramount.  There is no such thing as clinical judgment but only whether outcomes are right or wrong. 
• This concept is driven by legal liability with the constant threat of malpractice.
•  This workshop will promote how to create a constructive, creative and non judgmental environment.