Mindful Practice in Medicine
Promoting quality of care, quality of caring and clinicians’ wellbeing
Prof. Michael Krasner
Professor Emeritus of Medicine, School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Rochester
Prof. Mick Krasner has been at the forefront of developing mindfulness-based training for medical students, physicians and frontline healthcare staff for over 25 years. Since his last visit to Hong Kong in 2011, he has worked with members of our medical humanities team at HKU and offered crucial advice on the curriculum design of Mindful Practice.
In the upcoming workshops and seminars, Prof. Krasner would like to meet our students, faculty members, and frontline healthcare staff to share his experiences working with the international medical communities, and to explore future development of Mindful Practice for the Hong Kong context.
Registration Link: [For HKU Members] / [For Non-HKU Members]
Programmes:
Day 1 ~ 10 July 2023 (Monday)
Mindful Practice Workshop (For HKUMed staff and invited guests)
This Mindful Practice Workshop will engage faculty, staff and clinicians who are interested in mindful practice. Based on Mindful Practice in Medicine, an empirically validated program shown to help clinicians flourish, participants will explore the dynamics of teamwork and working with uncertainties in medical practice, two themes especially relevant to both frontline clinical work and medical education settings.
Time: 2:00 – 5:00 pm
Venue: Rm. A6-09, 6/F, William Mong Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Co-facilitators: Dr Venus Wong and Dr Pauline Luk
* No prior mindful practice experience is required. Limited quota, please register in advance.
Day 2 ~ 11 July 2023 (Tuesday)
Seminar: “Considering who a physician is” A mindful way exploring the identity of a physician (For HKU staff and Students)
Mindful Practice in Medicine for medical professionals is more than stress management. It helps practitioners improve the quality of work even within challenging health care systems and institutions, and flourish in their professional and personal life. In this seminar, Prof. Krasner will share past experiences working with thousands of healthcare practitioners from different countries and discuss how they have integrated mindful practice into their lives to nurture wellness and adopt tangible skills to cope with the evolving challenges found within the sometimes chaotic clinical and institutional environments within health care systems.
Time: 12:30 – 1:45 pm
Venue: Rm. A6-08, 6/F, William Mong Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Prof. Michael Krasner
Mindful Practice Workshop (For HKUMed students, residents, trainees, graduates and frontline healthcare professionals)
This Mindful Practice Workshop will include students, graduates, trainees, and frontline healthcare staff who are interested in mindful practice. Based on Mindful Practice in Medicine, an empirically validated program shown to help clinicians flourish, participants will explore the dynamics of how we pay attention and resilience in medical training and practice, two themes very relevant to medical education, professional identity formation, and frontline clinical work.
Time: 2:00 – 5:00 pm
Venue: Rm. A6-09, 6/F, William Mong Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Co-facilitators: Dr Patricia Luck, Dr Venus Wong and Dr Pauline Luk
* No prior mindful practice experience is required. Limited quota, please register in advance.
Lecture: “Recovery from pandemic for frontline healthcare team through mindful practice: the global experiences” (Open to Public)
While countries worldwide are recovering from the devastating impact of the pandemic, healthcare teams are still encountering many unresolved challenges. The residual effects on the wellbeing of individual team members, the teams they work within, and the entire healthcare systems, ethical concerns raised during the pandemic, and the world’s readiness to cope with the possibilities of another pandemic are ongoing concerns.
The challenges we have faced collectively over the past several years can lead us all to a critical awakening. In this seminar, Prof. Krasner will explore the potential contributions of introducing Mindful Practice to healthcare communities to address these global challenges and help clinicians, staff, patients and their communities to flourish.
Time: 6:30 – 7:30 pm
Venue: Rm. A6-08, 6/F, William Mong Block, 21 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam
Speaker: Prof. Michael Krasner
About Prof. Michael Krasner
Michael (Mick) Krasner (he/him), MD, FACP, Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, teaches Mindfulness-Based programs to patients, medical students, and health professionals for more than 23 years, involving over 4000 participants over 2000 health professionals. He was the project director of Mindful Communication: Bringing Intention, Attention, and Reflection to Clinical Practice, with results reported in JAMA in September 2009, which led to the establishment of Mindful Practice Programs at the University of Rochester which he co-directs. This program has provided continuing education to health professionals locally and internationally for the past 14 years, including a multi-year teacher training program for future facilitators. He describes his personal mission as centered on supporting the flourishing of health professionals and envisions a personalized health professional-patient relationship where healing is truly bidirectional, care goals are mutually derived, and the uniqueness of the clinical encounter reflects the central act of mutual high regard.
Registration Link: [For HKU Members] / [For Non-HKU Members]
Enquiries: please contact Ms May Fung at mehu@hku.hk.