Vision:
The vision originally developed by the Center for Professional Health faculty at Vanderbilt and adopted for this course is for physicians with disruptive behavior to have an opportunity to learn new behavioral skills to enable them to function in an increasingly complex medical environment, document specific behavioral changes and maintain their position and privileges in their practice or hospital staff.
Mission:
The approach is to provide distressed physicians with a safe, confidential environment where they can learn with their peers about the origins and consequences of their actions and develop new skill sets. The educational modality is guided small group interaction with the opportunity for exchange, feedback, and practice. The group serves as a “learning lab” providing learners the opportunity to “try-out” their newly developing skills.
Learning Objectives:
Upon the completion of the program, the participant intends to incorporate the following into their practice of medicine:
1. Utilize the core competency skills in the areas of Professionalism and Interpersonal and Communication while interacting with members of medical teams.
2. Identify and remove disruptive behavior from the medical delivery system to improve patient outcome.
3. Diagnose disruptive behavior symptoms when present in the medical delivery environment.
4. Improve patient safety by reducing the occurrence of disruptive incidents in the delivery environment.
5. Identify and mitigate personal risk factors for disruptive behavior to improve personal leadership and inter- professional functioning and patient care.
6. Utilize behaviors and communication techniques that promote professionalism and good interpersonal and communication skills facilitating delivery of patient care.
7. Utilize appropriate boundaries in communications with staff, colleagues, and patients maximizing safety and patient outcomes.
8. Identify and utilize relapse prevention strategies to minimize the reoccurrence of poor interprofessional communication.
