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The Shapiro Institute at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is seeking applications for Performance Mindset in Medicine. This faculty development course is designed to provide participants with a deeper understanding of the psychology that underlies performance and how it can be applied in medicine, and in particular, medical training: note: “performance” is used here to designate any activity or behavior that you use in the interaction with other members of the care team as well as interaction with patients, including but not limited to procedures. The techniques described in this course are also relevant to your “performance” as an educator.
It is targeted at early career faculty as well as experienced physicians who are looking to understand the psychology that underlies decision-making and how that impacts physician performance and related outcomes in medicine, with the goal to then teach and use these skills with their learners.
James Naples, MD
Sessions information:
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When: 1st Tuesday of every month, October 2025-June 2026
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Time: 5:30-7PM
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Format: In person, interactive
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Traditionally, medical education has focused on improving technical and analytical skills. Emphasis on these skills overlooks the necessary mental skills for high-stakes performance. Through the lens of performance and positive psychology, this course aims to provide insights to the mental skills necessary to perform in medicine. Content will include meta-cognition, self-determination theory and motivation, preparation and mental rehearsal, focus and attention, stress management, and mental recovery. The course will emphasize applications of these concepts and practical ways in which educators can teach these concepts. Participants will have the opportunity to network and collaborate with educators across multiple specialties at the medical center.
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Who Should Apply
Faculty at BIDMC with rank of Clinical Instructor or higher with the ability to make the scheduled meeting times.
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Deadline
DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 2025.
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Please submit a letter of interest including a commitment to make the scheduled meetings and CV no later than July 1 to Kelly Anastasio at kanasta2@bidmc.harvard.edu. In the letter of interest, please include a brief description of how you intend to use these skills in your work as a medical educator.
Please contact course director James Naples, MD jnaples@bidmc.harvard.edu if you have any specific questions about this opportunity.