Disruptive behavior, a style of interaction that interferes with professional relationships, patient safety, and educational outcomes, is an increasing challenge in the academic environment. Consequences include anxiety, errors in patient care, apathy, and low morale. Understanding how disruptive behaviors undermine a culture of respect and safety is critical to creating a humanistic environment infused with values that model professionalism. The themes highlighted include bullying, stereotypes, and hierarchical privilege. Participants will discuss cases through the lens of those impacted: patients, faculty, staff and students. Strategies to address the behaviors will be integrated into the presentation and applied by participants to cases.
Learning Objectives:
Describe examples of disruptive behavior in the academic and clinical setting.
List the consequences of disruptive behavior in the workplace, clinical setting and educational environment.
Utilize strategies to address negative behaviors to enhance the learning and the workplace environment.
Describe examples of disruptive behavior in the academic and clinical setting.
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