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Medical Resident Jeffrey

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Medical Resident Jeffrey

Give Jeffrey social and emotional support as he processes grief from the loss of one of his patients.

Your Role: In this interactive case, you are invited to play the role of a medical resident who volunteers in a peer support program in the hospital where Jeffrey is a second year resident in Emergency Medicine. You will be asked to make choices for what to say next, to help Jeffrey deal with stress arising from feeling overwhelmed by work-related emotional stress and physical exhaustion from long hours.

Scenario:

Dr. Jeffrey T. is a resident in Emergency Medicine. His work weeks are 80 hours+ these days.

2 weeks ago, a patient that he identified with died. Even though Jeffrey completed a debriefing that the Wellness Office offers, he still feels sad and thinks about it often. He decided to reach out to a peer support program sponsored by that office.

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Funding: Initial development of this activity was supported by funding from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (Grant #1 R43 AA026474-01).

Educational Objectives:

After completing this activity, physician and other clinician participants will be able to provide peer support to mitigate the acute distress of a colleague experiencing stress related to medical practice. The skills participants will be able to use in peer support include:

  • Connect with a peer in acute distress and engage them in discussing their concerns.
  • Clarify your role in providing peer support
  • Use questioning and listening skills to learn more about your peer’s concerns.
  • Assess the impact of your peer’s concerns.
  • Recognize when a peer in distress needs a recommendation for professional help.
  • Provide interventions and resources to help mitigate a peer’s acute distress.
  • Provide appropriate follow-up for peer support.

Authors

Clinical Tools, Inc. requires everyone who is in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest to the provider, which are defined as financial relationships in any amount occurring within the past 12 months that create a conflict of interest. Any conflicts of interest are resolved prior to the delivery of the educational activity to the learner. CTI does not permit individuals with financial conflicts of interest to participate in any stage of activity development.

T Bradley Tanner, MD (President, Clinical Tools, Inc.)
Disclosure: Has disclosed no relevant financial relationships. Dr. Tanner is the owner of Clinical Tools.

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T. Bradley Tanner, MD is president of Clinical Tools and responsible for the vision of the company. He has received funding via grants and contracts from NIDA, NIAAA, NIMH, NCI, AHRQ, CDC, the Dept of Defense, and NASA to develop medical and health education projects. Dr. Tanner served as principal investigator on 2 NIDA grants to develop the DATA-2000 qualifying buprenorphine training program and clinical practice tools on BupPractice.com. He also has a strong background in technology and oversees the development and delivery of all Clinical Tools websites. Dr. Tanner is also a board-certified psychiatrist with experience in inpatient, outpatient, and emergency health settings. He currently treats patients and educates medical students and residents via his role as a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Karen Rossie, DDS, PhD (Research Scientist, Clinical Tools, Inc. )
Disclosure: Has disclosed no relevant financial relationships.

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Karen Rossie, DDS, PhD, directs projects at Clinical Tools. She majored in biology at Cleveland State University and studied dentistry at Case Western Reserve University followed by completing a Masters in pathology at Ohio State University, and later, a PhD in Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She taught and practiced oral pathology and oral medicine for 15 years at the Ohio State University and the University of Pittsburgh, doing research in autoimmune disease, viral effects in bone marrow transplantation, oral cancer, salivary gland disease, candidiasis, and diabetes. She has used this diverse background to lead or contribute to CTI projects related to tobacco cessation, opioid abuse treatment, anxiety, dementia care, alcohol use disorder, screening and brief interventions for substance abuse, obesity, and pain and addiction.

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