Category Archives: Physician Wellness

Joule COVID-19 Learning Series: Mindfulness Workshops

These 60-minute interactive, online workshops introduce the core components of Mindfulness Practice, an internationally recognized program to help physicians incorporate mindfulness into their clinical work. Instructors are graduates of the University of Rochester Medical Center Mindful Practice longitudinal internship program. Webinar Details Topic: Mindfulness workshops Tuesday, June 2 – 8:00 pm (EDT) Instructor: Dr. Anita […]

Mindfulness & Resilience Self-Compassion Training for Healthcare Communities (SCHC) Building Resilience and Preventing Burnout

Mindfulness & Resilience Self-Compassion Training for Healthcare Communities (SCHC) Building Resilience and Preventing Burnout Date and time: Tuesdays 6:00pm – 7:00pm from May 26 -June 30, 2020 Fee: $120 + HST (6 week online course) Program Overview Self-Compassion Training for Healthcare Communities (SCHC) is a 6-hr evidence-based healthcare adaptation of Mindful Self-Compassion, the empirically supported […]

Physician Wellness: Offer of Support to All Canadian physicians during the COVID-19 Crisis

Dr. Mamta Gautam, is an Ottawa-based psychiatrist, known as the Doctors’ Doctor, with expertise in physician health and physician leadership.  She is hosting a free daily Zoom call to offer mutual peer support to colleagues as we deal with COVID19. -Zoom call, at 4 pm EST for 1 hour, 7 days/week -Please feel free to […]

Ensuring our Own Well-being as we Care for Others During the COVID-19 Crisis as Individual Physicians

As individual physicians, we can practice strategies to increase and maintain our personal resilience. Feeling stress does not mean we are not coping well or not able to do our job. In fact, it is a normal human response, and may be useful in allowing us to function during this difficult time. The important thing […]

Ergonomics for the Ophthalmologist Videos

The COS is pleased to provide access to the presentations on Ergonomics that took place during the 2017 COS Annual Meeting in Montreal, QC. On this page you will find a variety of resources and video presentations on the subject of ergonomics. CPD Credit Scanning resources that are relevant to your professional practice by enhancing […]

Practical Ergonomic and Mindfulness Tips for a Day in the Operating Room

The Canadian Ophthalmological Society is pleased to provide you to a recording of the webinar on practical ergonomic tips in the ophthalmology operating room, that took place on December 9, 2019. In the session George Matos, Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention Specialist and ophthalmologist Dr. Lorne Bellan review how to adapt your posture to protect yourself through […]

Practical Ergonomic Tip: Mindfulness

Turning Burnout into Joy

This accredited activity has been developed from the recording of a live webinar that was hosted in February 2020. To participate in the webinar please visit this website: https://event.on24.com/wcc/r/2179418/81C4B40E26A303468E847B8512805FD6 Activity Overview Stress is inherent in medicine and can lead to burnout. This presentation is designed to assist physicians in learning how to recognize the symptoms […]

Webinar Recordings: Ergonomics and Mindfulness in the Operating Room. Providing Care to Your Patients While Avoiding Becoming One

The Canadian Ophthalmological Society is pleased to provide you to a recording of the webinar on practical ergonomic tips in the ophthalmology operating room, that took place on December 9, 2019. In the session George Matos, Musculoskeletal Injury Prevention Specialist and ophthalmologist Dr. Lorne Bellan review how to adapt your posture to protect yourself through […]