The Oslo meeting

Inaugural annual workshop
Thon Hotel Opera Oslo, 28 - 29 October 2009

 

Objectives

• For European Physician Health Services and individuals around Europe working in the field of physicians’ health to meet, share experiences and discuss opportunities for joint working
• To consider how members of the European Association for Physician Health will work together

Attendees came from Austria, Belgium, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

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Keynote speaker: Torunn Janbu

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Speakers at the meeting were:

The Barcelona meeting

Healthy Physicians for a Healthy Society

This major international conference took place in Barcelona from 1 to 3 December 2010. 

 

Hosted by the Galatea Foundation, the conference attracted 98 delegates from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Spain, Switzerland, UK and USA

The conference conclusions were:

• Priority for promotion of health and wellbeing for health professionals
• Early detection to prevent problems before they occur
• Improvement of the caring programmes
• Diffusion of EAPH aims
• Promote involvement in the EAPH of members from all European countries
• Design of multicentric studies at European level in order to obtain funds from EU
• Involvement of policy makers, boards, institutions
• Assessment of effectiveness and efficiency of interventions and their outcomes
• Outcomes should favour human aspects, not only economic aspects
• Support human and social capital
• Hospital managers should care more for physicians’ health, but they are not the only ones
• Interventions to focus on individuals, as well as organizations
• Using the health professional information to help all healthcare staff
• Encourage peer groups support
• Early detection in medical students

 

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The Salzburg meeting

Challenges of change – how to survive and thrive in a rapidly changing workplace
26-27 September 2011, Salzburg

 

Keynote speakers were:

• Dr Julia Whiteman, London - Meeting the challenges of change: my story so far
• Peter Hofmann, Graz - Are doctors different?
• Dr Rhona Knight, London - Training doctors to treat colleagues

Plenary sessions

Session 1: Regulation across Europe and North America
Facilitated by:

• Dr Richard Brennan, Medical Council, Dublin
• Anna Rowland, General Medical Council, London
• Prof Olaf Aasland, Norwegian Medical Association, Oslo
• Wilfried Kunstmann, Berlin - Substance abuse among doctors in Germany - problem size and interventions (PPT)

Session 2 
Facilitated by:

• Tuva Kolstad Hertzberg, Oslo - Work-home interference predicts burnout in Norwegian doctors: a 15-year follow-up study
• Manel Salamero, Barcelona - Student’s health
• Dr Edgar Voltmer, Friedensau - A comparison of job satisfaction and effort-reward imbalance between German and Norwegian physicians in private practice (PPT)
• Karin Isaksson Rø, Oslo - Sick leave after a counseling intervention prevents later burnout: A three-year follow-up study of Norwegian doctors

Session 3: Doctors treating colleagues
Facilitated by:

• Dr Michael Peters, London - Doctors as patients: where we go wrong
• Dr Andree Rochfort, Dublin - The primary care approach
• Dr Pilar Lusila, Barcelona - Psychiatrists treating doctors

Session 4: Central European perspective on prevention and treatment
Facilitated by:

• Dr Michael Peltenburg, Zürich - A Swiss support network for physicians in crisis (PPT)
• Dr Edgar Voltmer, Friedensau - A comparison of job satisfaction and effort-reward imbalance between German and Norwegian physicians in private practice (PPT)
• Wilfried Kunstmann, Berlin - Substance abuse among doctors in Germany - problem size and interventions

The Dublin meeting

The Dublin meeting

EAPH conference 2013 - 11 and 12 April

 

The conference was entitled 'Keeping Doctors Healthy - A European Perspective'.

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The Barcelona meeting

The Barcelona meeting

EAPH conference 2015 - 20th and 21st April

 

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• Best Poster Award
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• Satisfaction assessment
• Conclusions

 

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Opening lecture “The health footprint of a healthy doctor” Dr. Peter Anderson

Oral Presentations topic 1:

Building health and resilience in medical school

• 1. Reality weakness trait is linked to both mental health and performance related issues among medical students: a nationwide and cross sectional study (NORDOC). Prof. Reidar Tyssen. Norway
• 2. The hidden curriculum of patient centered care: Narratives from medical students. Dr. Karolina Doulougeri. Greece
• 3. Mental health and intervention studies in Norwegian medical students and doctors: a review and update of the NORDOC studies. Prof. Reidar Tyssen. Norway
• 4. Resilience and professional identity. Recognising and responding to the challenge: Empowering medical students to support and embed change in their undergraduate curriculum: A new approach. Dr. Debbie Cohen. UK
• 5. Predisposing factors of burn out among Parisian General Practitioners Trainees. A longitudinal study. Prof. Eric Galam. France
• 6. Process training for health providers: Self-management and emotional intelligence strengthen foundation for resilience. Ms. Ane Haaland. Norway
• 7. It’s just a laboratory, it is not your life.” Stressors and starting points for health-promoting interventions in medical school from the students’ perspective: a qualitative study. Dr. Thomas Kötter. Germany
• 8. Developing a medical education website for doctors and medical students in Ireland on ‘doctors’ health & healthcare: information & services. Dr. Andrée Rochfort. Ireland
• 9. The transition of medical students to the residency training: the effects on physical activity and mental health. Dr. Alba Pardo. Catalonia. Spain

 

Oral Presentations topic 2:

Professional resilience in a changing health care system

• 10. Current and future health care needs of future hospital physicians. Mr. Martijn M. Ruitenburg. The Netherlands
• 11. Training communication skills for health professionals: Does it influence on job satisfaction, burnout and resilience? Dr. Pilar Lusilla. Catalonia. Spain
• 12. Assessing and remediating disruptive physician behaviour: The first five years of results from the Ontario Medical Association. Dr. Derek Puddester. Canada
• 13. Passionate performance in times of burnout. Prof. Dr. med. Edgar Voltmer. Germany
• 14. A story of resilience: Being a paediatrician in Spain. Ms. Anna Mitjans. Catalonia. Spain
• 15. Physicians’ perceptions in favour of or against establishing a private practice and correlations to work related behaviour and experience patterns. Prof. Dr. med. Edgar Voltmer. Germany
• 16. The role of GP’s self esteem in critical decision making. Dr. Evangelia Tsiga. Greece
• 17. The changing context of UK General Practice- the story from the Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners. Dr. Jennifer C Napier. UK
• 18. When resilience fails: dual diagnosis among physicians. Dr. María Dolores Braquehais. Catalonia. Spain

 

Oral Presentations topic 3:

Personal resilience and the health of doctors

• 19. Appropriate mental toughness training for medical students and clinicians. Dr. Mark RW Stacey. UK
• 20. Protective factors and risk factors for psychiatric morbidity among general practitioners – a crosssectional gender stratified study. Prof. Ann Fridner. Sweden
• 21. Global Physician Resilience: The Role of Social Context. Dr. Dana Hanson. Canada
• 22. The balance between discretion and incentive driven systems. A qualitative study on the importance of organisation of peer support for doctors in Norway. Dr. Karin Isaksson Rø. Norway
• 23. How therapists react to patient’s suicide – findings and consequences for health care professionals’ wellbeing. Prof. Dr. Friedrich M. Wurst. Austria
• 24. Health for Health Professionals Wales: A national intervention to support doctors in distress: outcomes and lessons learnt one year on. Dr. Debbie Cohen. UK
• 25. Long term follow-up study of a cohort of doctors who have attended the MedNet Service. Dr. Sally Davies. Dr. Tony Garelick. UK
• 26. To regret or not to regret medicine, does it matter for physicians’ later well-being? A nationwide and longitudinal study over 15 years after leaving medical school (NORDOC). Prof. emeritus Tore Gude. Norway
• 27. ‘What’s Up Doc?’ Development of an occupational health and personal resilience program for junior doctors in a UK teaching hospital. Dr. Evie Kemp. UK
• 28. Physicians sickness presenteeism: Safe or hazardous? Dr. Lise Tevik Loevseth. Norway
• 29. Health and wellbeing of physIcians as a guarantee of better quality of medical care. Dr. Anna G. Margaryan. Armenia
• 30. Toward a Belgian National Assistance for Physicians in Acute Psychological Distress. Dr. Michel Bafort. Belgium

 

WORKSHOPS

• 31. “No decisions about me, without me”: Learning communication skills in the new paradigm doctor-patient relationship. Dr. Debbie Cohen. UK / Dr. Pilar Lusilla. Catalonia. Spain
• 32. Designing your practice for quality care and career satisfaction. Dr. Henry Ukpeh. Canada
• 33. Developing Resilience through Peer Support. Dr. Vishal Agrawal. UK
• 34. Bringing the well being and patient safety research agenda together: Why healthy HPs equal safe patients. Prof. Anthony Montgomery. Greece
• 35. A Baker’s dozen of mental toughness skills- a resilience workshop. Dr. Mark RW Stacey. UK
• 36. Living or surviving at work: Learning to develop professional resilience in complex working environments. Dr. Eulàlia Masachs. Ms. Anna Mitjans. Catalonia. Spain
• 37. Mental skills training for hospital physicians: to maintain or improve workability. Mr. Martijn M. Ruitenburg. The Netherlands
• 38. What’s Up Doc?” Following a junior doctor with depression-a skills based workshop. Dr. Evie Kemp. UK
• 39. To explore key psychodynamic changes derived from therapeutic consultations that contribute towards resilience. Dr. Tony Garelick. UK

The Paris meeting

The Paris meeting

EAPH conference 2017 - 24th and 25st April

 

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• Best Poster Award

 

 

Oral presentations (authorised)
24th April

Room Bruxelles

PATIENT SAFETY

• The impact of errors and complications on surgeons – Catherine Johnson. UK

TOOLS

• Caring for caregivers. Preliminary report of a french national training program. Jean-Jacques Ormières. France
• Doctoring doctors: How a monitoring program gets addicted physicians back on track (and off track). The Royol Dutch Medical Association’s Physician Health Program shares its 5 years of experience. Hans Rode. Netherlands
• The mental health levels of medical school students during their clerkship years from the universities of Francois Rabelais in Tours and Paris 7-Diderot, en epidemiological descriptive multicentric transverse study. Alban Danset. France
• Aid to caregivers of Rhône-Alpes (ASRA). Michel Evreux. France

Room Dublin

PROFESSIONAL NEEDS

• Physicians’ Psychosocial Work Environment and Quality of Care: a Systematic Review. Kevin Teoh. UK
• Prevention of burnout in psysicians: description, progress and impact measurement of an experiment in the Centre-Val de Loire region in the form of dedicated workshops. Parvine Bardon. France

TOOLS

• Association MOTS (Médecin Organisation Travail Santé): feedback on the follow-up of doctors facing difficulties, medial support adn prevention measures. Anne-Françoise Auter. France.

MEDICAL EDUCATION

• What strategies/interventions have been described in literature aiming to prepare students for uncertainty? Baptiste Motte. France

Room Athènes

WELL-BEING

• Hospital demands and resources influence on physician wellbeing: a multilevel perspective. Kevin Teoh. UK
• Health and Self Care. Andrew Tresidder. UK
• The power of stories: Insights from a Schwartz Rounds Facilitator. Juline Smit. UK

Room Copenhague

HELPING OTHERS

• “Co-doctors” support their colleague-general practitioners and want to break the deeply ingrained taboo of the “omnipotent” doctor: a pilot project. Andy De Witte. Belgium

25th April

Room Bruxelles

TOOLS

• National Platform for Physicians with Mental Problems in Belgium: Knowledge Gathering. Awareness, Prevention and Assistance for Physicians. Koen Matton. Belgium
• Doctors facing exhaustion of psychosocial difficulties: study of 120 doctors accompanied by a dedicated french network with a global health approach. Loïc Solvignon. France

Room Dublin

MEDICAL EDUCATION

• Empowering the clinician and the patient. Rebecca Viney. UK
• Preventing Stress Becoming Distress – A survey of Paediatric Trainee Responses to Challenging Situations and Support Available. Catriona Macdougall. UK

 

Room Athènes

TOOLS

• Is there a doctor around? An exploration of the exhaustion of the will to do well in doctors. Patricia Pame. France
• Tiger Country: Using play reading to facilitate discussion about physician health and wellbeing. Evie Kemp. UK