Sunday 13 April 2014

The Summertime Series: Come Join Our New Initiative.

My colleague, Dr Harold Pupko, suggested that we continue our teaching season into the summer.  

So as I commence work on the new education blog, he is planning our new small group teaching initiative.

So here we begin.  And I do hope to see some of you at our summer workshops.  The small size of the groups promises to make for a great atmosphere for sharing.  

This is what Dr Pupko writes:

This summer, the Section on Primary Care Mental Health (SoPCMH) is inviting you to participate in a new educational initiative.  It’s a bit of an experiment.

The experiment involves providing a venue for colleagues to gather and share what is on their minds when it comes to providing mental health care. Whether you would like to discuss a case, share an interesting educational experience, are enthusiastic about a book, article or video, or are just looking to pick your colleagues brains, these evenings are envisioned to provide you with the opportunity to do so. Being the summer, the approach will be a laid back one, encouraging collegial interaction.

The evening will be led by Dr. Harold Pupko, Section vice Chair, and will be co-facilitated by colleagues from the education committee of the SoPCMH, focusing on unleashing the collective clinical experience and wisdom within the room.  We are a diverse group of clinicians on the committee, so expect to have a few approaches and perspectives shared during these events.

As this is an experiment, you are asked to confirm the date you will be attending during the week before each session. Please reply before noon of the Sunday proceeding the Monday session at drhappi@aol.com. You will be notified if there is insufficient interest to get together that week.

Our Section is dedicated to helping family physicians and physician psychotherapists provide optimal mental health care to our patients. This program is just one of the many educational opportunities our Section provides to OMA members. To keep up to date on educational opportunities, please bookmark www.wildpsychotherapyfrontier.blogppot.com
and check there regularly for updates.

Summertime, and we'll see how it goes ...

Please join us.


Dates:

June 9 & 23;

July 7 & 21;

August 11 & 25

Time: 7:30 PM

Location:  OMA Offices, 150 Bloor Street West, 9th Floor (North East corner of Bloor and Avenue Road)

Cost:  No charge, courtesy of the dues-paying members of the SoPCMH


An Introduction Under Only Slight Duress

Hi Everyone -


I've been asked to set up this blog as an adjunct to my role as an education chair.


Education chair of what?  The Section of Primary Mental Health Care & Psychotherapy of the Ontario Medical Association.


Well, that isn't perhaps the best start, but I couldn't think of a better way, syntax-wise, to get such a longwinded title on the screen.


I promise I'll be saying a lot more later.


I have many interests including neuroscience, medicine, psychotherapy, trauma, East/West integration, yoga and our contemporary world. I plan on soon knitting some of those themes together for you.


For now, though, I've been asked to get the flyer for our summer teaching project up promptly, before our annual meeting at the end of the month.


The summer series is the creation of my innovative committee member and colleague, Dr. Harold Pupko.  I promise I will be sitting next to him at some of the sessions, and you will hear some pretty different viewpoints at times from the two of us.  But hopefully, you will also sense our common humanity and curiosity and open-ness to growth and transformation as we do our best to support your either nascent or very experienced practice in medicine & psychotherapy.


Keep checking out the flyer, because there's going to be lots of interesting stuff here, as well as all the latest information on what our section is offering.  Not all of it will take you to the frontiers, and we promise not to drag you (a little nudge now and then, though, for sure) further than you want to go.  But I do promise that we will at times, take you to the wild places, and treat you to some interesting views.


Hope to see you all at some of our events, as they unfold.


Harry