It is amazing how little most health professional students are taught about lifestyle management, self-care and mindfulness throughout their training. This deficit in training has a number of negative implications. Such skills are central to training the informed, competent and safe health practitioners of the future for five main reasons including:
- The wellbeing of health professionals is important for its own sake;
- The modern health practitioner tends to be massively under informed about the evidence and importance of lifestyle medicine and mindfulness
- Health professionals must be able to help their patients with non-pharmaceutical approaches like lifestyle and stress management the mindful health
- Professional tends to communicate better and be more compassionate and prosocial
- The healthy health professional is more clinically competent and safe.
This live interactive webinar will explore these issues and how we go about addressing them through the core-curricular Health Enhancement Program at Monash University.