{"id":3658,"date":"2019-02-05T10:40:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-05T20:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/?p=3658"},"modified":"2020-02-14T03:21:54","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T13:21:54","slug":"uhp-jabsom-healthcare-professionals-learn-mindfulness-at-two-day-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/uhp-jabsom-healthcare-professionals-learn-mindfulness-at-two-day-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"UHP, JABSOM healthcare professionals learn mindfulness at two-day workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3658\" class=\"elementor elementor-3658\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-531c351b elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"531c351b\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\" 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In between caring patient care, filing documentation, and teaching students and residents, it\u2019s easy for physicians to feel burnout from their work.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, a recent study from the American Medical Association shows that physician burnout is becoming a \u201cpublic health crisis\u201d that affects the quality of doctor-patient relationships and health care nationwide. A Reuters survey notes, \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Close to 44 percent of U.S. physicians are burned out, and 15 percent are depressed and thinking about suicide. . .some physicians are retiring earlier because of burnout or depression.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To prevent these situations, MindfulPractice &#8212; a wellness initiative based out of the University of Rochester Medical Center &#8212; hosted a two-day workshop at JABSOM on January 18 and 19. About 30 physicians and healthcare professionals from JABSOM and UHP were in attendance.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3660 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uhphawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/46018691025_421e8395f8_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uhphawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/46018691025_421e8395f8_z.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uhphawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/46018691025_421e8395f8_z.jpg?resize=150%2C113&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uhphawaii.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/46018691025_421e8395f8_z.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><em>Mindfulness Workshop sign-up table, with copies of Dr. Ronald Epstein&#8217;s book, &#8220;Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness and Humanity.&#8221; Photo courtesy of Crystal Costa.\u00a0<\/em><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The goal of the workshop is to provide healthcare professionals with practical steps to create work-life balance in their careers and to improve the quality of patient care in their respective specialities and practices. MindfulPractice also encourages physicians to share these practices with students and residents to prevent burnout during their educational years.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Attendees participated in interactive webinars, meditation technique training and large group discussions. These activities focused on resilience, responding to suffering and awareness of self and others. Dr. Ron Epstein, keynote speaker and co-director of the MindfulPractice program, also taught attendees to incorporate \u201cbeginner\u2019s mind\u201d into their discussions and practical application. Beginner\u2019s mind is a Zen Buddhist technique that helps people to see familiar situations from a new, broader perspective. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c[The work environment] is incredibly important just how the workday is structured and what people do during their day,\u201d Dr. Epstein said. \u201cMost doctors didn&#8217;t go to medical school to spend time in front of a computer. They get a sense of meaning and purpose from being with patients. On an individual level, it&#8217;s recognizing how to enhance your capacity of being mindful moment to moment during the day by listening more attentively to oneself and listening more attentively to one&#8217;s patients and colleagues.\u201d <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the workshop activities included a \u2018deeper dialogue\u2019 with fellow colleagues on positive and negative experiences they\u2019ve had in their practice. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis is a way of engaging in a deeper way about the impact of those experiences &#8212; how they&#8217;ve affected us personally, how they&#8217;ve affected our practice, and ways of seeing how we might be able to approach them in a more open and positive way,\u201d Dr. Epstein said. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Richard Szuster, a clinical professor of the JABSOM Department of Psychiatry, was one of the three facilitators for the event. He said he enjoyed seeing the engagement between attendees. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe highlight was seeing the community engaged, to see physicians and other healthcare professionals engaging in a search for their own meaningfulness in their work,\u201d said Dr. Szuster, who specializes in developing practices of mindfulness for healthcare professionals. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c[Mindfulness] is the foundation for almost everything I do. It\u2019s a way of . . . interacting with colleagues and patients and the ability to engage with our patients in the midst of difficulties and challenges they face. I think it\u2019s something that can almost naturally escape us. In the midst of difficulty, we disengage. This capacity allows us to respond more skillfully in what we\u2019re doing.\u201d <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Epstein and his team have found that these workshops have benefitted physicians in the way they approach their work. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPeople see [the workshops] as transformative, and we&#8217;ve also published some data showing that it helps physicians develop a sense of well-being and resilience. It helps them be more available to their patients, to listen better, and to feel a sense of community. So we were very energized by those results, and since then, have been developing other programs to try to spread the word to make it more available to more clinicians and teachers.\u201d <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. David Kurahara, a clinical faculty of the JABSOM Department of Pediatrics, said that \u201cthe mindfulness conference helped me to see that I need to try to enjoy each moment of life that is given to me . . . It helped me to talk about difficult events that have occurred in my life and to have a willing and caring person carefully listen and to provide another person\u2019s perspective that I had never thought about. It provided me a menu toward building an appreciative life and to be thankful for all that has come my way.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Diane Eckert, who works in the UHP\/JABSOM Department of Psychiatry, added that t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he seminar was \u201cwonderful.\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI could feel the calming effects from the practices we engaged in and it really piqued my interest into experiencing the more long term effects of regular practice,\u201d she said. \u201cI am now practicing regularly.\u201d She is also interested in attending another seminar in the future. <\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Szuster hopes that the workshop created an interest for participants to consistently apply these practical steps. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI really do hope that it\u2019s the beginning of something, not the end of something,\u201d he remarked. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt was great to see people engaged and I hope this keeps an interest, a momentum, a spark for those that attended.\u201d<\/span><\/p><p><em>Featured photo by\u00a0Dingzeyu Li\u00a0via\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unsplash.com\/search\/photos\/mindfulness?utm_source=unsplash&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_content=creditCopyText\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unsplash<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1924c5ba elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1924c5ba\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-529cc76b\" data-id=\"529cc76b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-418008fe elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"418008fe\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-button-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/uhphawaii.org\/index.php\/news-all\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">&lt;&lt;   &nbsp;Return To News<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 5, 2019 &#8212; To prevent burnout, MindfulPractice &#8212; a wellness initiative based out of the University of Rochester Medical Center &#8212; hosted a two-day workshop at JABSOM on January 18 and 19. 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