Death
Death Made Visible: an Interdisciplinary Exploration of Death & Dying in Literature
Location: RGN – Health Science Campus, University of Ottawa
Credits: 3 credits = 39 hours
Profs: Interdisciplinary Faculty from Medicine, Nursing & Faculty of Human Sciences Saint-Paul University
Class schedule: Evening: 17:30 – 20:30 pm
Participants:
MD – 1st or 2nd year students
BScN – 4th year students &/or Post-RN students
Saint Paul University Bachelor of Pastoral Services & Masters Programs in Spiritual Care of Human Science Health Care
Masters level students with prior program approval
Maximum number of participants: 40
Main Goal: Given the aging population and the increasing number of people suffering with chronic and terminal diseases, health care professionals can expect to have increasing contact with these individuals and must be prepared to provide appropriate and adequate care. The main goal of the course is to improve health care professionals’ ability to provide holistic care for the terminally ill and their families. This course will achieve this through:
Increasing the student’s individual awareness of the concepts, issues and theoretical constructs of death, dying and suffering.
Interdisciplinary exchanges of professional perspectives, allowing reflection on each student’s own professional practice.
The course consists of 13 sessions of 3 hours each.
Classes will consist of a seminar series with facilitated discussions in both large and small group formats. There will be at least one consistent facilitator throughout the course, and guest facilitators with expertise in the thematic area to be discuss that class.
Students will participate in class discussions, preparation of focus notes based on class readings, a student group assignment and presentation, and a final reflective exercise.
A numerical grade will be assigned to each student, as opposed to a Pass/Fail designation.
Contact:
Dr. Pipa Hall (613-562-6262 ext. 4014)
Email: phall@bruyere.org
Dept. Palliative Care, Bruyère Continuing Care
The Integrity Model in Medical Practice: A Value-Based Workshop
Objectives:
In this workshop, participants will learn to:
- Identify and rank the values which influence their decision-making personally and professionally;
- Understand and value the price tags for their value rankings;
- Identify and begin addressing value clashes towards enhancing a sense of harmony in professional and/or personal life;
- Understand and begin addressing value clashes which underlie impasses in the doctor-patient relationship.
Description:
Come and join the circle as we explore ways to identify and rank the values which influence our decision-making personally and professionally, to deal creatively with stress, and find harmony across the fabric of our lives. The Integrity Therapy model of wellness will be offered as a philosophical frame of reference which bridges the physical, spiritual and psychological dimensions of prevention and wellness. Participants will be invited to bring forward examples of impasses in daily life and/or professional practice. They will learn a new and viable framework for finding creative resolutions to ethical dilemmas, value clashes and issues of therapist boundaries and counter-transference through the frame of personal integrity. They will discover ways to trust and use their selves and their own clinical intuition and personhood as catalysts for working effectively others in resolving the conflicts of daily living and find a greater sense of harmony and wellness across the fabric of their lives.
The workshop begins with a contract of confidentiality. The Integrity model (Lander & Nahon, 2005) is a wellness-based, existential framework which views the human being as a valuing animal. Mental health and well-being are viewed as the outcome of living in accordance with one’s personal value systems, and of living each situation with integrity–defined as honesty, responsibility, and community.The Integrity model offers training physicians a philosophical and practical perspective for resolving impasses in the doctor-patient relationship, conflict resolution, working with the “difficult patient”, and creatively addressing ethical dilemmas in professional practice. This discussion will be of relevance across areas of medical specialties and interests. Participants will explore issues of meaning as they traverse the undergraduate program, the crisis of value clashes, their ever-involving identity as individuals and as health care professionals, the business of being a physician and the value of relationship in their daily lives, present and future.
The leaders have offered Integrity Model-based wellness workshops to community and academic physicians and to undergraduate learners across the undergraduate curriculum. These workshops having been rated as quite valuable in offering a value-based approach in dealing with the stresses of daily living, and resolving impasses and dilemmas in participants’ personal and professional lives. The facilitators are down-to-earth and simple folk with a warmth and synergy which welcomes group members into the circle. The Integrity Model is a philosophical organizing umbrella about oneself and one's relationship with the world, in a manner which enhances the self as an integral human being on all levels–mind, body and soul. Danielle and Nedra believe that no-one can empower another. Rather, as individuals learn how to apply the tenets of the Integrity Model in their own lives, they learn to reclaim their personal power as they find ways of honouring their values and finding a renewed sense of purpose, meaning and wellness in their professional and personal lives.
References
Lander, N.R., & Nahon, D. (2005). The Integrity Model of Existential Psychotherapy in Working with the "Difficult Patient". London: Routledge. Available at Morrisset Library.
Lander, N. R., & Nahon, D. (2009a). Reason # 10: I tried and now I have no more energy, or: How can I avoid burn-out? In J. Dollin (Ed.), The top 10 skills I need to save the world. Ottawa, ON: Federation of Medical Women of Canada.
Supervisors :
Dr. Danielle Nahon
Co-Chair, Women Faculty Mentoring Program,
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa
& Practice in Clinical, Consulting and Counselling Psychology
Dr. Nedra R. Lander
Co-Chair, Women Faculty Mentoring Program
& Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry
Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa
Location : |
The workshop will be held in an off-site retreat setting in Nepean. Car-pooling will be facilitated. Refreshments, munchies, and a hot buffet lunch will be provided. |
| Duration: | 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. |
| No. of Students: | 7 to 20 students |
| Available for: | Students from all years are welcome to attend. |
| Language: | The workshop will be offered in English. Questions will be answered in English, French and Spanish. |
Upcoming Session: To be confirmed