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Agenda

7:30-8:00 Registration and Breakfast/Coffee Posters on display

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8:00-8:15 Welcome and Introduction of the Topic (Dr. Bill Watson)

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8:15-9:00 Plenary # 1 The Skinny on Motivational Interviewing – Getting beyond “yes…but” Description/goals: Helping people get unstuck and take action with respect to health behaviours requires us to help them resolve their ambivalence. This plenary will describe how one can teach this skill and describe the results of the UofT program for clinical clerks in Family Medicine. (Dr. Peter Selby Biography)

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9:00-9:45 Plenary # 2 Mindfulness in Healthcare: Personal and Professional Resilience Description/goals: This session will address participants to mindfulness and its relevance to family medicine. Participants will learn the utility and delivery of the 3 minute breathing space. They will also be introduced to mindfulness core concepts and some simple practices for working with difficulty that arises in depressive, anxious and depressive states. (Dr. Patricia Rockman Biography)

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9:45-10:15 Question & Answer (Plenary 1 & 2)

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10:15-10:45 AM Break/Refreshments (Posters on display)

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10:45-12:00 Workshops

  1. CBT (Cognitive Behaviour Therapy) and SFT (Solution-Focused Therapy) Teaching Tips: The Basics For Teachers

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    Description/goals: This session will address pieces of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Brief Solution Focused Therapy that can be introduced into Family Practice. Goal Development, the automatic thought record, awareness and restructuring questions will be addressed. In addition we will cover homework including monitoring, scheduling and experiments. (Dr. Patricia Rockman)

  2. Teaching About Addictions – Tips for Teachers

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    Description/goals: This workshop will focus on key features of addiction in Family Practice with emphasis on teaching strategies. Participants will have an improved approach to teaching their residents on this topic (Dr. Suzanne Turner)

  3. Teaching Residents to Work with Couples and Families: Tools, Tips and Approaches

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    Description/goals: How does couple and family counseling differ from individual counseling? What are the opportunities and contraindications for couple counseling in Family Practice? This workshop will focus on teaching residents when and how to do couple and family counseling, utilizing assessment tools, goal setting and current approaches to couple and family therapy. (Lindsay Watson, Ed Bader and Dr. Stephen Holzapfel)
12:00-1:00 Lunch/Posters

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1:00-1:45

Plenary # 3, including Q & A (12 mins)

What Helps Learners Become Patient –Centred? Description/goals: Teaching learners to be patient-centered is achievable. This presentation will examine the research evidence supporting this premise, as well as the powerful parallels between being patient-centered and learner-centered. Case examples will serve as illustration. (Dr. Judith Belle Brown Biography)

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1:45-3:00 Interactive Panel Discussion with audience: What is Working in Teaching Behavioral Medicine – Best Practices from Programs (Chair – Dr. Charlie Guiang) With representatives from 5 programs and psychiatry, followed by discussion (Drs. Joyce Zazulak / Doug Oliver (McMaster); Dr. Kelly Howse (Queens); Dr. Gary Tarrant (Memorial University); Drs. Abbas Ghavam-Rassoul / Nadiya Sunderji (St. Michael’s Hospital); Schoel Shuster (St. Joseph’s Health Centre)

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3:00-3:15 PM Break/Refreshments

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3:15-4:00 Plenary # 4, including Q & A (12 mins)

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Creating Infectious Health Messaging: Lessons in Storifying Evidence, Creativity, and Behavioural Medicine. Description/goals: This workshop will review the changing landscape in healthcare and behaviour medicine; how it is changing (email clinics, apps, quantified self), how it is not changing (relationships, self-care, attitudes), and emerging tools that help the public inform their health choices. The talk will be interspersed with media developed in Dr. Evans’ lab. (Dr. Mike Evans Biography)

4:00-4:45 Interactive Panel Discussion with audience: “What’s New In Evaluation of Learners” / Triple C and Beyond (Chair – Dr. Abbas Ghavam-Rassoul), followed by discussion (Drs. Karl Iglar, Ivy Ondasan and Erin Lurie (Resident)

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4:45 Wrap up/ Evaluations

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