Table 1. Components of the Mindfulness in Medicine Program
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Mindfulness in Medicine Program Sessions in Chronological Order |
Description of Session |
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Sessions are 2 ½ hours in length unless otherwise indicated. MBSR sessions are weekly and subsequent sessions bi-monthly. Sessions included: meditative practice, a didactic component, and reflective sharing and listening exercises. *Indicates instructor-led sessions adapted from the Mindful Practice® in Medicine program |
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Orientation*
MBSR sessions (8-2-hour sessions and 1-Saturday 8-hour session)
Instructor-led sessions Noticing and awareness*
Working together*
Responding to suffering*
How physicians think and deal with uncertainty*
When things go wrong*
Grief and loss*
Flourishing and resilience*
Furious to curious*
Professionalism*
Belonging*
Student-led sessions |
Introduction to Mindfulness in Medicine practice, review schedule and requirements
Led by co-founder of Mindful Practice® in Medicine program
Cultivating our ability to notice, perceive, and discern
Enriching our capacity to work effectively with others
Supporting our responses to others’ suffering, being compassionate while cultivating resilience
Developing our ability to think and be aware of biases and cognitive ‘traps’, recognizing that uncertainty is unavoidable in clinical practice
Exploring how and why we make errors, how to prevent them, disclosure/apology
Raising awareness of and responding to our own losses as well as those of our patients
Growing the capacity to respond to stress in a healthy way
Cultivating compassion for others regardless of feelings of worth
Balancing boundaries and conflicts
Exploring what it means to belong and its relationship to burnout and flourishing
Each student presents a topic of their choice following the format of the instructor-led sessions. Several students presents at each session
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