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WONCA APR Conference 2019 » Workshop
[WS3-29] Resilience Skills for Early Career Primary Care Doctors
Fri. May 17, 2019 1:30 PM - 2:15 PM Room 11 (2F Room K)
Organizer: Jill Benson(WONCA Working Party on Mental Health (WWPMH), Australia)
Speaker/Chair: EMILY KIRKPATRICK(OCEANIA CHAIR & CHIEF REPRESENTATIVE AUSTRALIA FOR THE RAJAKUMAR MOVEMENT YOUNG DOCTORS, GPEx SA, Australia), Jill Benson(WONCA Working Party on Mental Health (WWPMH), Australia)
The 21st century family physician is one who is adaptable, resilient, reflective and professional. Transitioning from the hospital system to community medicine can be a very steep learning curve for junior doctors, with much uncertainty at play. Mental health concerns of junior doctors are increasingly publicized, especially in the Australian media. As a medical community we need to ensure that we are supporting junior doctors as they embark on the community medicine pathway, by teaching a skill set of the following:
• Accepting Feedback
• How to learn from things that don’t go as planned
• Resilience
• How to stay on top of all the things that need to be done
• Professionalism
• How to act like a doctor even when you don’t feel like it
• Self-care
• How to look after yourself when your job is to look after everyone else
• Studying
• And in the end you’ve just got to make sure you’re learning as much as you can……and also to pass the exams, if applicable
This workshop aims to assist junior doctors with adapting to a growth mindset and utilising workplace based learning, as well as providing educators with the tools to guide junior family physicians into community practice.