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The Mindful Medical Learner initiative interviews physicians across the field about mindfulness and how it relates to their practice. Unique experts, course leaders, and mindfulness advocates - we’re bringing them all to our circle! We are a team of medical learners who have come together to offer meditation and mindfulness-based resources to our colleagues – created by learners, for learners. This initiative is being done in collaboration with the McGill WELL Office, which seeks to support learners throughout their training by creating, promoting and sustaining a culture of wellness and resilience. Research shows that mindfulness-based practices can be hugely beneficial for mental well-being. This is particularly pertinent for medical trainees who are consistently operating in high-stress environments. We hope to create a community around mindfulness and meditation and promote awareness about the role that it can play on both a personal and professional level.
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Monday Feb 22, 2021
Monday Feb 22, 2021
Derek is a mental health therapist based in Montreal, Quebec. He completed his undergraduate training at Concordia and went on to receive a masters degree in Counselling psychology from Yorkville University. Derek has a particular focus on integrative harm reduction approaches for substance misuse and behavioural addictions.
We discuss:
- The substance use and addiction landscape that Derek sees in his practice and treatment centre (3:00)
- Defining important terms: substance misuse and substance abuse and addiction (4:20)
- Defining behavioural addiction (6:15)
- Derek’s path to becoming a mental health therapist (8:50)
- How Derek got involved with populations who use substances (10:35)
- How Derek started incorporating mindfulness into his professional practice (13:00)
- Selecting patients for Mindfulness-based interventions (15:14)
- Specific treatments for patients being treated for substance use and how to introduce it to patients (18:05)
- Why Mindfulness based techniques work with this patient population (20:00)
- Challenges when using mindfulness-based tools with this population (22:30)
- What future clinicians should know about this population (25:10)
- The harms of labelling patients as drug seeking and how we should manage this (27:45)
- How patients access substance use counseling (31:20)
- Substance use amongst medical students (33:40)
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