Designed for practicing physicians with basic OMT skills or those MDs and DOs who have graduated from residency programs with Osteopathic Recognition, ACOFP’s Next Level OMT is intended to help attendees further refine their OMM diagnoses and treatment and bring those skills to the “next level.” This lower extremities section will consist of case-based presentations that focus on a brief review of diagnostic procedures for specific conditions where OMT is indicated (such as ankle sprain and fractures, ankle pain, and foot pain), with most of the time devoted to hands-on instruction of specific OMT techniques. This module is approved by AOBFP to count towards the recertification requirements from AOBFP for OMT.
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The session addresses the pressing need to equip physicians with resilience-building strategies amidst rising burnout rates, ensuring they can sustain effective patient care while maintaining their own well-being. This aligns with the ongoing efforts to improve healthcare workforce sustainability and quality of care delivery. LOs: Understand current trends and research on physician burnout.
Learn practical strategies to enhance resilience and well-being.
Identify actionable take-home messages and tools for personal and professional improvement.
Are you feeling like you are on the path to burnout? This session is designed to help you see the light in the tunnel. Many physicians are stuck in miserable jobs, but in the day-to-day chaos of life, they cannot seem to dig out and find their passion. It takes a lot of energy to challenge ourselves to re-think our path. This session will emphasize how as family physicians, we are in a unique position to make change because of our wide knowledge base and skill set. We will discuss the implications of staying in a job you are dissatisfied with and open the door to a new way of thinking. We will look at how to take an inventory of what you enjoy to point you in a better direction for happiness and joy. Gain tools to help with a career pivot, whether it be a clinical or non-clinical pivot. Hear from 2 family physicians who have transitioned careers to design jobs they love, leaving burnout behind.
Participants will sharpen their dermatological diagnostic skills through dermoscopy practice and elevate your proficiency in subsequent skills such as excision and cryotherapy. Billing and coding associated with these procedures will also be reviewed.
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Explores the benefits and risks of using humor in patient communication and relationships. It also looks at the effect on self resilience and professionalism, including the topic of dark humor. It ends presenting Medical Improv as a novel learning tool for students and clinicians.
Give an introduction to Ayurveda in the form of slides, audience participate in form of filling out a DOSHA quiz to learn their specific make-up; also Q&A. Goal: learn about Ayurveda and what it has to offer in terms of healthy lifestyle, nutrition and daily practices attendees can incorporate into their daily routine. By practicing the daily routines and diet the attendees will have a lived experience of how these practices feel in their own body enhancing their understanding and ability to communicate the benefits with their patients.
Many physicians and C suite health care professionals are expected to perform at 'peak' performance, however, often face burn out and exhaustion, fighting an uphill battle with too few tools to acheve and sustain what we define as peak performance. Additionally, there is an evidenced based science to excellence that will be explored in tis interactive and informative session. Covered: a) Biological underpinnings of mind-body medicine: such as functional views of stress, the HPA axis, and the central and autonomic nervous system, immune and endocrine systems for example
b) Organizing your day with SAVERS
c) Understanding excellence as it relates to peak performance
d)Participants will experience interactive experiments in breath, meditation, and movement
Delve into a dynamic demonstration and hands-on practice covering essential aspects of wound care such as wound debridement, biopsies, and mastery of dressing and compression techniques. Billing and coding associated with these procedures will also be reviewed.
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