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ForwardPhysician Suicide: When It’s Close to Home
The rate of suicide among physicians is almost twice as high as for the general population. Please join us for our online course, Physician Suicide: When It’s One of Our Own, with guest speaker Elizabeth Gall and Baptist Health’s Graciela M. Jimenez, LMFT and Rachel Rohaidy, M.D.
Target Audience
Physicians, Physician Assistants, Psychologists (Instruction Level: Intermediate), Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Respiratory Therapists (Personal Growth), Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians, Social Workers, Chaplains, Medical Students and other interested healthcare professionals.
Baptist Health South Florida is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Baptist Health South Florida maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
Learning Objectives
- Define and explain the concept of disproportionate suicide rates among physicians and identify at least three contributing factors supported by current research.
- Correct at least three common myths about physician suicide by comparing them with evidence-based facts.
- List and evaluate individual and organizational strategies designed to prevent physician suicide and burnout, including at least two specific resources or programs.
- Compare perceptions of mental health and help-seeking behaviors among at least three different generational cohorts of physicians (e.g., Baby Boomers, Gen X, Millennials).
- Describe the emotional and professional impact of a physician's suicide on colleagues and identify at least two interventions or support mechanisms used by medical students and staff in response.
Faculty
Rachel Rohaidy, M.D.
Psychiatrist
Baptist Health South Florida
Graciela M. Jimenez, LMFT
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist
Baptist Health South Florida
Elizabeth Gall
Widow of oncologist Matthew Gall, M.D., who died by suicide in 2019
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Elizabeth Gall and Graciela Jimenez, LMFT, faculty for this educational activity, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose and have indicated that the presentations or discussions will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.
Rachel Rohaidy, M.D., conference director and speaker for this educational activity, has indicated that she has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose.
Jason James, M.D., Michele Benjamin, M.D., Ana Rivas-Vasquez, M.D., and Leo Huynh, D.O., panelists for this education activity, have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose and have indicated that the presentations or discussions will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.
Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships to disclose with ineligible companies*.
*Ineligible companies – Companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Baptist Health South Florida is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Baptist Health has been re-surveyed by the ACCME and awarded Commendation for 6 years as a provider of CME for physicians.
Baptist Health South Florida designates this enduring material for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Available Credit
- 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 2.00 Psychology CE
- 2.00 General certificate of attendance
- 2.00 Nurse Practitioners
- 2.00 Florida Board of Nursing
- 2.00 Florida Board of Pharmacy
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- Android mobile devices running Android 4.4 or later, with the latest release of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox
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