PLI Course | Foundations of Wellness: A Conceptual and Strategic Approach (VIRTUAL ONLY | ADDITIONAL FEE)

*This course has additional fees associated with its registration (visit the registration page for more information). Please also note this course is accredited by CFPC and RCPSC.*

Health and wellness is a critical issue that affects all members of a care team, patients and the overall effectiveness of the health system. Organizational factors such as challenging workloads, demanding learning and practice standards, rigid medical culture and complex practice environments all put health care professionals at a higher risk of experiencing personal and professional dissatisfaction, depression, burnout and suicide. To address these challenges, we must first understand the scope of the problem, including the individual and system drivers of burnout.

In this interactive course, we will review key concepts of wellness, explore organizational factors that drive burnout and review evidence-based findings on the interventions shown to protect against burnout and foster well-being. We will explore the role of meaning in work and examine threats to joy in medicine. Participants will work collaboratively to create a personalized plan and identify evidence-based strategies to integrate wellness into their clinical environments.

Jillian Horton, MD
Jillian is an award-winning physician, musician, writer and podcaster. She is associate professor of internal medicine and associate head of internal medicine at the University of Manitoba and directs the Alan Klass Health Humanities Program. She has completed a longitudinal internship in teaching mindful practice at the University of Rochester and chief wellness officer training at Stanford University.

Her writing about medicine appears regularly in the Los Angeles Times, The Globe and Mail, Maclean's and Medscape. She hosts the novel series “Arts, Medicine and #Life” at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa.

In April 2020 she was awarded the prestigious AFMC–Gold Humanism Award by the Gold Foundation for Humanistic Healthcare, Canada, and by the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada for her contributions to compassion in clinical care and her leadership in the field of humanities in medical education. Her first full-length book, We Are All Perfectly Fine, about mindfulness, self-compassion and bringing our whole selves to clinical practice, is a national bestseller.