Resources

Resilience Questionnaire

Complete a resilience questionnaire to assess your own resilience here: https://www.testyourrq.com/. It gives you an assessment of your own resilience quotient based on the following 5 areas:

17th Ottowa Conference Report

Dr Jane Mamelok, Deputy Dean for Primary Medical Care and Public Health, attended and presented at the 17th Ottawa Conference on 19th - 23rd March 2016 in Perth, Western Australia.

This report lays out the key learning from the event.

Advanced Communication Skills - Reading List

Below is our list of the most important books in the literature of the consultation. However it is a very personal list and you will not need to have read a single word of any of these to gain value form the course.

An Introduction to the Resilience Resources

We all need resilience in our clinical work. There is increasing evidence that this is something we can learn and develop. The links provided within this section provide a range of resources - books, YouTube vidoes and articles. They also include an on-line questionnaire that helps you assess your own resilience, and give you ideas on how to develop your resilience further.

We suggest you browse through the resources listed to see what appeals to you.

Associate Deans Workshop Directory

The HEE (NW) Associate Deans (ADs) are able to provide educational support in the following areas via a range of interventions i.e. workshops, presentations, lectures, etc. Some of these are available on a personal basis; others may be prepared by a Lead AD but delivered via other ADs.

Barbara Fredrickson

Barbara Fredrickson is an America Professor of Psychology at North Carolina. She has written extensively on positive emotions and links with resilience, and worked with Marcel Losado on the Losado ration. She has developed the broaden and build theory of positive emotions.

Barbara's book Positivity looks at

Why positivity is more important than happiness
How it relieves depression, broadens minds, and builds lives
How to tap into your own sources of positivity

Building Physician Resilience

Published in Canadian Family Physician. 2008 May; 54(5): 722-729

The objective of this study was to explore the dimensions of family physician resilience. The study was carried out in Ontario, Canada and four main aspects of physician resilience were identified:

Coaching Self & Others

Wiritten and shared by Dr Steve Baldes (for EPI) this document series examines the Coaching spectrum and delivers sample OSKAR and exemplar conversation techniques.

Current background and theories around resilience - Dr Rebecca Baron

Dr Rebecca Baron, Associate Postgraduate Dean for GP at Health Education England (North West Office) presented an overview of current background and theories around resilience and ideas of how to improve your own resilience. This was recorded at the North West Medical Leadership School meeting in December 2015

Doctors in Difficulty - Getting it Right

This event was held on Thursday 2nd February 2017 at the Mercure Norton Grange Hotel. The objectives of this event were to enable delegates to fully understand the contribution that HR and OH make to managing trainees with problems, gain more confidence in managing difficult conversations with trainees and fully understand the nature of doctors in difficulty during training and have a structured approach to managing them.