EmpowerHer: Mind Body Medicine Training for Women in Medicine* 

Outcome Objectives

– Practice mindfulness meditation to reduce stress.

– Incorporate aspects of feminine-power-centered practitioner learning to strengthen personal wellbeing and improve the provider-patient relationship.

– Counsel patients on how experienced stress can initiate and worsen disease processes.

– Counsel patients to employ sitting meditation techniques to help them reduce their stress.

– Counsel Patients on how childhood traumas can affect adult behavior and morbidity in powerful yet hidden ways.

– Promote individual self-care and psychological well-being practices, thereby becoming more effective healers.

– Develop effective methods to safely increase patients’ movement.

– Demonstrate simple exercises to enhance patients’ posture.

– Counsel patients on qigong as a mindful movement practice and explain its healthcare value to patients.

– Counsel patients on Tai Chi as a mindful movement practice and explain its healthcare value to patients.

– Employ nontraditional diagnostic tests that can help identify the cause of underlying gastrointestinal complaints.

– Counsel patients on why ultraprocessed foods have negative health effects.

– Counsel patients on how consciously controlling one’s respiratory pattern has powerful physical effects on the body and can be used to decrease stress and reduce anxiety.

– Identify why women tend to make shame-based explanations for when adverse events occur, and offer strategies to cultivate resilience through self-compassion practices.

– Counsel patients on the concepts of “defended weight” and its role in undermining patients’ ability to sustain weight loss.

– Take actions to establish boundaries between work and personal life to foster balance and reduce burnout risk.

– Incorporate integrative approaches to help women with polycystic ovary syndrome and the menopausal transition.

– Identify risk factors that make hormone replacement contraindicated, and acknowledge alternative strategies to support patient wellbeing after menopause.

– Identify and incorporate knowledge of a patient’s personal health mythology to address their unique health issues.

– Incorporate generative conversations to enhance trust and understanding between provider and patient.

Accreditation / Credit Designation Statement

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson and IntegrativeBeing.org. The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson designates this live activity for a maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Relevant Financial Relationships Statement

University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson Office of Continuing Medical Education adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CME activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies (commercial interests). The CME office reviewers have nothing to disclose. All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

All individuals in a position to control the content of this CME activity have disclosed that they have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies that would constitute a conflict of interest concerning this CME activity.