Understanding Disruption in Distressed Physicians & Medical Organizations

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Workshop Dates:

Check with your state medical board or provincial college in advance to inquire about receiving official credit for this 2 day (14.5 hour) workshop.

If you are attending this workshop, some concern regarding your behavior in the workplace has come to the attention of others. At this juncture, you may feel as though you have a target on your back. The way in which you have been managing workplace challenges and obstacles has likely backfired and your reputation is becoming compromised. The only way to remove this target is to learn new skills to navigate your work environment in a manner that promotes peace of mind in a variety of distressing situations.

Historically, disruptive “clashes” have been attributed solely to an individual’s difficulty with anger management. In fact, the problem is more complex and includes organizational and team/department factors, as well as individual difficulties with self-regulation, conflict resolution, risk management, reputational awareness, and diplomacy. Nevertheless, adaptive self-regulation in the face of organizational dysfunction is becoming a matter of clinical-professional competence. This responsibility rests on your shoulders. The interpersonal demands of organizational life are a challenging reality that must be faced and which require honest reflection, strategic planning, and adaptive problem solving from here on out. This workshop aims to help you acquire the psychological awareness and sophistication you need to identify unrecognized deficits in effectively managing interpersonal conflicts and tensions. Through didactic and frank collegial discussions with other physicians and faculty members, each participant will address the following goals.

Goals

  1. Identify specific challenges in interpersonal functioning and organizational awareness
  2. Identify etiological factors that contribute to emotional dysregulation
  3. Learn concepts for effectively negotiating workplace conflicts
  4. Learn to engage adaptive risk management strategies
  5. Learn new management and leadership skills
  6. Redirect one’s career toward a more intentional, non-reactive, and sophisticated mode of professional functioning

Objectives

  1. Understand the criteria that define disruptiveness and its impact on clinical care
  2. Learn that disruptive behavior is a multi-determined phenomenon based on the collision between individual factors within an interpersonal and organizational context
  3. Learn that disruptive behaviors are end-stage symptoms of underlying internal distress, not legitimate professional behaviors
  4. Understand professional self-regulation as the interface between mindful attention to one’s internal state, empathy, and social-organizational awareness
  5. Develop skills to effectively contain, conceptualize, and manage inevitable emotional arousal in self and others
  6. Develop an individualized behavioral risk-management plan to protect oneself and others within modern medical settings