Addressing the Burnout Epidemic: A Training Program for Healthcare Leaders

• Registration fee: $5,000
• Includes all course materials, an individual wellness report, leadership book, and CME Credit
• Please contact us at cph@vumc.org if you are interested in registering for this program

Day 1 

• Conceptual Models & Physician Well being 
• Professional Health and Wellness Spectrum 
• Stress and Stress Management in the COVID-19 Pandemic 
• Burnout Identification and Prevention 
• Resilience and Joy in the Job 
• Goals and Goal Setting: B A SMART ER Model 
• Review of Personal Wellness Reports* 

Day 2 

• Burnout and Distressed Behaviors 
• Addressing sources of Burnout 
• Conflict Management and Effective Communication 
• Creating Cultures of Wellness 
• Individual and Organizational Approaches to Reducing 
• Burnout: Case Discussions 

Day 3 

• Leadership Panel 
• Budgets and C suites 
• Identifying Problems and Solutions 
• Logic Models and Outcomes 
• Project Development and Action Items 
• Project Ideas and Feedback 

• Train leaders within departments and divisions on physician wellness and resilience topics such as wellness, identifying and dealing with stress and stress management, burnout, and impairment
• Identify resilience building activities for physicians within departments and designing and implementing organizational programs to address and reduce risk of burnout and impairment

After participating in this CME activity, leaders will: 

1. Identify individual risk factors, sources and consequences of stress and burnout at work and home

2. Engage in reflection to connect meaning and value as a physician 

3. Apply knowledge of managing energy to cases and current work-life situation 

4. Practice emotional regulation, conflict management, assertiveness communication and mindfulness-based stress reduction

5. Identify areas of personal change and design a personal wellness plan by writing B-A-SMART-ER™ goals to implement and complete within the next six months 

6. Analyze the current workplace environment and outline solutions that promote well-being and professionalism using a nominal group technique 

7. Create a brief summary of next steps for developing and implementing changes within his/her area for improving a culture of wellness

Healthcare leaders (program directors, division chiefs, department chairs, chief medical officers, etc.) from medicine, nursing and dentistry. 

Charlene M. Dewey, MD, MEd, MACP, Professor, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Division of General Internal Medicine & Public Health. 

William H. Swiggart, MS, Director Emeritus, Course Instructor, Center for Professional Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Wayne J. Riley, MD, MPH, MBA, MACP, President SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn, Downstate Medical Center

Reid C. Thompson, MD,  William F. Meacham Professor and Chairman, Director Neurosurgical Oncology, Director Brain Tumor Center; Professor of Otolaryngology 

Vanderbilt University Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Vanderbilt University Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 20.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s). Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

Course registration must be cancelled at least 30 days prior to the first day of the course to receive a refund. No refunds will be given if cancellation is received less than 30 days prior to the course. You may transfer to another course date. In the event VUMC must cancel or reschedule this CME activity due to unforeseen circumstances, Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) will refund the registration fee in full. Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is not responsible for non-transferable, non-refundable airline tickets or hotel accommodations purchased in connection with attendance at this CME activity. Failure to appear for the event will result in forfeiture of the entire course fee.