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ForwardHealing the Healers: Strategies to Reduce Compassion Fatigue and Burnout
In this course, Dr. Patricia Junquera and Rev. Guillermo Escalona, M.Div., BCC, CT, examine physician burnout through a comprehensive, evidence-informed framework. Participants will learn to identify the early warning signs, contributing risk factors, and systemic pressures that drive burnout across healthcare settings. The course highlights actionable prevention and intervention strategies designed to strengthen resilience, restore meaning in clinical work, and support sustainable well-being. In addition, participants will gain insight into compassion fatigue and practical tools to address it effectively—ultimately enhancing both quality of patient care and professional fulfillment.
Target Audience
Primary Care Physicians, Family Practice Physicians, Emergency Medicine Physicians, Neurologists, Psychiatrists, Psychologists (Instructional Level: Intermediate), Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners, Nurses, Social Workers and other interested clinical care providers.
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
Upon completion of this conference, participants should be better able to:
- Recognize the signs, symptoms, and risk factors of physician burnout and compassion fatigue.
- Differentiate between burnout and compassion fatigue, including their emotional, behavioral, psychological, and spiritual impacts.
- Apply evidence-based individual and systemic strategies to prevent and address burnout and compassion fatigue.
- Develop a practical plan to strengthen psychological resilience and implement sustainable self-care.
Patricia Junquera, M.D., FAPA
Chair, Associate Professor
Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Florida International University
Miami, Florida
Rev. Guillermo Escalona, M. Div., BCC, CT
Directorof Chaplaincy & Spiritual Care
Staff Support & Education/Spiritual Formation
Miami Cancer Institute | Baptist Health South Florida
Conference Director:
Rachel Rohaidy M.D.
Double Board-Certified in Adult & Addiction Psychiatry
Co-Director, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS)
Miami Neuroscience Institute | Baptist Health South Florida
Patricia Junquera, M.D., faculty of this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose, and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.
Rev. Guillermo Escalona, M .Div., BCC, CT, faculty of this educational activity, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose, and has indicated that the presentation or discussion will not include off-label or unapproved product usage.
Rachel Rohaidy, M.D., conference director for this activity, has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose.
Non-faculty contributors and others involved in the planning, development, and editing/review of the content have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies* to disclose.
*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 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Available Credit
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- 1.00 Psychology CE
- 1.00 Florida Board of Clinical Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Mental Health Counselors
- 1.00 Nurse Practitioners
- 1.00 Florida Board of Nursing
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- Apple iOS mobile devices running iOS 10 or later
- Android mobile devices running Android 4.4 or later, with the latest release of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox
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