Wellness Retreat

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A three-day interactive, CME-approved retreat that focuses on individualized wellness for practitioners, including individualized assessments and reports for all participants.  

Learn while participating in highly engaging activities, whole and small group learning sessions, and giving/receiving real-time feedback centered around personal and professional growth and well-being.  

Learn skills and techniques to promote wellness, joy, and purpose.  

The AMA states that healthcare workers can suffer from burnout; however, there are “targeted solutions to support…wellness, including personalized learning on best practices to prevent…burnout, rediscover joy in medicine, [and] creating a culture of team-based care and improving practice efficiency.” 

1. Empower healthcare professionals to reflect, self-assess, and dive deep into priorities, values, and meaning related to wellness
2. Reflect on risk factors and strategies to prevent, reduce, or manage stress, burnout, and impairment
3. Enhance resilience, focus on self-care, practice MBSR, and build emotional intelligence
4. Empower healthcare professionals to communicate more effectively through negotiating, assertiveness, and conflict management at home and work 

In The Pursuit of Happiness: A Wellness Retreat Program, participants will engage in various teaching strategies including group discussions, case-based discussions, role plays, Q&A, and practice to develop knowledge and skills. 

The 3-day program content includes: 

• Conceptual Frameworks
• Meaning, Purpose, and Value
• The PHWS
• Four Strategies of Resilience
• Self-awareness
• Individualized Assessment Reports
• Assertiveness Communication
• Conflict Management
• Goal setting
• Goal keeping
• Evaluations & Summary

All physicians in healthcare: physicians, scientists, nurses, dentists, etc. 

• Charlene M. Dewey, MD, MEd, MACP, Professor, Division of General Internal Medicine & Public Health, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Kristine Tatosyan-Jones, MD, MBA, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine & Public Health Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Quitina J. Watson, EdD, Course Director, Center for Professional Health; Instructor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• Eppiphanie Richardson, Senior Program Manager, Center for Professional Health

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