Connect with colleagues and reignite your passion for family medicine! Join our small group learning sessions to celebrate your wins, explore common challenges and discover new strategies for success. Register by March 18, 2025.
Our small group learning sessions offer a unique opportunity to learn from your peers and enhance your practice. These closed groups of up to twelve participants provide a safe space to openly discuss the challenges and successes of your practice, particularly in areas related to mental health, substance use disorders and chronic pain. Each session is co-facilitated by two Peer Guides who will help guide the discussion. Groups meet virtually every four to six weeks for 1.5 hours over the course of a year.
This program has been certified by the College of Family Physicians of Canada and the Ontario Chapter for up to 18 Mainpro+Ⓡcredits.
Program Benefits
Explore approaches that relate to the issues you experience when caring for people with mental health, substance use disorders and/or chronic pain.
Gain strategies to find joy in your work amidst the challenges you face in the healthcare system.
Consider ways to bring ease to supporting patients in the areas where you face difficulties.
Join a Small Group
The following groups have space remaining for additional participants.
By registering for one of the groups below, you commit to attending and participating in group discussions.
These groups are open to family physicians in Ontario (practicing, on leave, retirement, etc.) and family medicine residents.
Sign up by March 18 to secure your spot.
This group is open to all family physicians who struggle to set appropriate boundaries for a work-life balance. Each session is designed to help physicians learn various approaches to optimizing emotional resilience and will include mindfulness practices, managing difficult emotions, and building resilience.
Learning objectives:
Become more aware of the significance of the relationship between the health professional and the patient.
To increase their understanding of psychotherapist – patient communications.
Be able to recognize the feelings that are evoked by the interaction with the patient and be able to use these for the benefit of the patient and be able to use the group to express and process anxieties and frustrations about their work
To provide Physicians with an opportunity to explore the emotional aspects of their work in a safe collegial environment.
To provide support and to encourage health professionals to reflect more deeply on their work.
This group is open to primary care physicians at any stage of their career who are looking for an opportunity to ask questions about diagnostic and treatment issues in mental health in general terms vs. consultations on specific patient care issues.
By the end of this year-long group, participants will:
Have an opportunity to engage in dialogue with other family doctors.
Clarify one’s diagnostic and treatment skills in the mental health areas of primary care.
Gain confidence in dealing with mental health issues in primary care.
This group is for any physician experiencing chronic illness and/or disability including those currently working in or on leave from clinical roles those, and those in nonclinical roles.
