COURSE CREDITS & HOURS
14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™14 CE Credits for Psychologists
14 ANCC Contact Hours
COURSE FEES
$1,195.00 for Physicians, Psychiatrists
$895.00 for Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Psychologists
$695.00 for Nurses, Counselors
TARGET AUDIENCE
Physicians, Psychiatrists, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Psychologists, Nurses, Counselors
PROGRAM TOPICS
Overview
This highly interactive two-part course is taught by two psychologists with a combined career focus on working with healthcare professionals that exceeds 50 years. It offers strategies that allow healthcare professionals to not only survive, but to thrive in the new health care environment. And it goes beyond helping to prevent burnout, to show how to create an organizational foundation for joy in medicine, improve practice efficiency, and build trust with patients in a way that makes any professional a better healer. The course also provides 2 credit hours on preventing medical errors which some states require for license renewal.
Dr. Paolini's Topics
- 3 Keys to Overcoming Burnout
- Develop and practice strategies for sustaining personal well-being and professional satisfaction
- Designing Your Practice for Maximum Success and Fulfillment
- Conduct a practical assessment of current medical practice
- Develop a plan to design it for improved fulfillment and success
- Tools for Enlisting Patients into Needed Lifestyle Changes
- Acquire and practice practical skills to enlist patients into needed lifestyle changes
- The Art of Listening and Creating Safe Spaces
- Increased ability to communicate and enlist others into a collaborative space
- Dealing with Conflict and Facilitating Crucial Conversations (Differentiation & Attunement)
- Improved communication with patients and clinical team
- Cultivating Personal & Organizational Health
- Conduct a personal assessment and plan of care to sustain one's own health and to nurture the health of one's organization
- Overcoming Personal and Organizational Immunity to Change
- Develop an understanding of change management and how to promote and manage personal and organizational change
Dr. Spruill's Topics
- Best Medicine to Prevent/Reverse Burnout and Optimize Joy
- How avoiding the psycho-social aspects of patient care leads to burnout
- How "leaning in" to the psycho-social aspects of patient care can reverse burnout
- How to Cut the Number of "Heartsink" Patient Encounters in Half
- Discuss the factors that researchers have found contribute to what healthcare providers describe as "difficult" patient encounters
- Be aware of what patient, clinic and physician characteristics contribute to such encounters and in doing so be able to reduce the frequency of these encounters in medical practice
- Introduction to Motivational Interviewing
- Why simply advising patients to abandon unhealthy lifestyle habits rarely works
- Key principles and time-sensitive methods of M.I. proven to increase the odds of patients making healthy lifestyle changes
- Whole Person Care: Integrating Behavioral Health Services
- Review the prevalence and co-morbidity of mental health concerns in traditional medical practices
- Emphasize the need for both co-training of medical and mental health professionals as well as the value of integrating mental health providers as members of the care team in mainstream medical practices
- Describe the use of "warm hand-offs" as a means of increasing physician time-efficiency and readily connecting those in need of mental health services with integrated mental health providers
- Behaviors that Distinguish Emergency Health Care Providers as Exemplary
- Identify which behaviors and competencies are most important in being viewed by peers as an exemplary health care provider
- Develop a strategy to incorporate these factors into interactions with peers
- As an educator, emphasize those factors in the training of new providers
- Preventing Medical Errors: Assessment of Suicidal Risk 101
- Review the challenges such as inadequate training in suicide risk assessment as well as the provider's discomfort in talking about suicide which continue to result in errors resulting in patient suicides
- Discuss suicide risk factors and warning signs that will enable healthcare professionals to be better able to identify those at imminent risk (including physician peers) and refer them to the appropriate level of care provided by specialists trained in treating suicidal individuals
- Preventing Medical Errors Part II: Don't Believe Everything You Think
- Review of common "thinking errors" that result in misdiagnoses and medical errors
COURSE OVERVIEW BY PROFESSION
This course provides physicians with actionable strategies to enhance practice efficiency, reduce burnout, and improve diagnostic accuracy. It focuses on the crucial, non-clinical skills that foster professional fulfillment and better patient outcomes, including techniques for building trust, facilitating crucial conversations with colleagues, and effectively enlisting patients in necessary lifestyle changes. The curriculum is designed to help you redesign your practice for maximum success and personal satisfaction, addressing the systemic and personal drivers of professional dissatisfaction in modern medicine.
Key learning outcomes include mastering motivational interviewing, mitigating common thinking errors to prevent misdiagnosis, and confidently assessing for suicide risk. This program provides up to 14.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™, including 2.00 credits specifically for medical error prevention. The unique conference-at-sea format offers a restorative setting for focused learning and reflection on your practice, away from the demands of the clinic or hospital.
For psychiatrists, this program offers a unique perspective on influencing the broader healthcare system and enhancing collaboration with non-mental health colleagues. The curriculum explores the integration of behavioral health services into primary care, strategies for managing organizational change, and advanced communication skills for facilitating crucial conversations within clinical teams. It provides a framework for consulting with and improving the psycho-social health of medical practices, addressing provider burnout at its source to create a foundation for whole-person care.
Participants will gain insights into training medical peers on suicide risk assessment, managing 'heartsink' patient dynamics, and applying motivational interviewing. This activity offers up to 14.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. The cruise conference setting fosters invaluable interdisciplinary dialogue, allowing you to share your expertise and learn from other specialties, ultimately strengthening your ability to lead and contribute to integrated care models.
This program is designed to empower Nurse Practitioners by reinforcing the core tenets of holistic, patient-centered care. It provides practical tools to enhance your effectiveness in managing difficult patient encounters, creating safe communicative spaces, and successfully guiding patients toward necessary lifestyle changes. The content directly addresses the challenge of professional burnout by offering concrete strategies to sustain personal well-being, improve practice efficiency, and cultivate renewed joy and fulfillment in your vital role as a provider.
You will leave with enhanced skills in motivational interviewing, suicide risk assessment, and conflict facilitation within the healthcare team. This program offers up to 14.00 contact hours of continuing education, including content on preventing medical errors. The conference-at-sea format provides a rare opportunity to step away from clinical demands, engage in focused learning, and network with interdisciplinary colleagues in a restorative, collegial environment.
This course equips Physician Assistants with essential strategies for thriving as a collaborative and effective member of the healthcare team. It focuses on strengthening communication with patients, supervising physicians, and other colleagues to improve practice efficiency and resolve conflict. The program directly addresses key professional challenges like burnout and difficult patient encounters, providing practical tools to enhance clinical confidence, sustain professional satisfaction, and ultimately improve the quality of patient care you deliver.
Participants will learn tangible skills in motivational interviewing, recognizing cognitive biases to prevent medical errors, and performing suicide risk assessments. This program provides up to 14.00 hours of AAPA Category 1 CME credit. The distraction-free cruise setting offers an ideal environment to absorb these powerful strategies and collaborate with a diverse group of healthcare professionals, enriching your perspective and your practice.
Led by fellow psychologists, this course offers a compelling look at applying psychological principles to improve the functioning of the broader healthcare system. It provides valuable insights for consulting with medical practices, fostering organizational health, and training providers in advanced communication and motivational interviewing. The curriculum is ideal for psychologists working with or within medical settings, offering strategies to promote the integration of behavioral health and address the systemic causes of provider burnout and patient dissatisfaction.
Specific topics include models for integrating mental health providers into medical teams, managing organizational immunity to change, and teaching suicide risk assessment to non-mental health professionals. The program offers up to 14.00 CE credits for psychologists. The conference-at-sea format fosters unique interdisciplinary dialogue, enriching your perspective on whole-person care and building effective, collaborative practice models.
This program provides nurses with essential tools to navigate the complexities of frontline patient care and enhance professional resilience. It focuses on strengthening your ability to manage difficult patient encounters, create safe spaces for communication, and effectively advocate for patient lifestyle changes. The course directly confronts the challenge of burnout by offering practical, evidence-based strategies to sustain personal well-being and find renewed satisfaction and joy in the nursing profession, benefiting both you and your patients.
You will gain immediately applicable skills in motivational interviewing, conflict facilitation, and identifying patients at risk for suicide. This program provides up to 14.00 ANCC contact hours, including content specifically on preventing medical errors. The unique cruise conference format allows you to step away from the high-stress demands of your unit to focus on your professional development and share insights with a diverse group of healthcare colleagues.
This course provides counselors with a valuable framework for understanding the modern healthcare environment and collaborating effectively with medical providers. It enhances core clinical skills in motivational interviewing and suicide risk assessment, while also offering strategies for integrating behavioral health services into primary care—a significant and growing area of practice. You will gain insight into the culture of medicine, including the drivers of provider burnout and the communication challenges within clinical teams.
Learn about the 'warm hand-off' model for integrated care, principles of organizational change, and how to support medical colleagues in managing the psycho-social aspects of patient care. This program offers up to 14.00 hours of continuing education. The unique cruise setting facilitates networking with physicians, nurses, and other professionals, providing critical insights into building the effective, integrated care teams that lead to better patient outcomes.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
PLEASE NOTE: To attend the conference, participants must book their cruise accommodations through Continuing Education, Inc. This ensures we can provide full conference services and complimentary social amenities to meeting participants and guests. Participants' family and friends are welcome to book within our group allotment to take advantage of our typically excellent rates. Thanks for your cooperation. We look forward to welcoming you aboard!
BIAS FREE CME - No Commercial Support was provided for this CME activity.
