CPHP provides exceptional presentations to the medical community throughout Colorado regarding the services offered at CPHP and physician health related issues. Physicians and CPHP personnel who are experts in the field of physician health conduct these presentations. Below is a listing of presentation topics that CPHP provides. In addition, CPHP can tailor our presentations to discuss the issues that are unique to your organization.

How to Schedule

If you are interested in requesting a presentation from CPHP please complete the form below. A CPHP representative will be in contact with you to discuss your request. CPHP recommends that you request a presentation with ample time prior to your requested schedule date (typically two/three or more months ahead). In addition, CPHP requests an honorarium to help supplement the cost of travel and presenter’s time. If you have additional questions regarding CPHP presentations, please contact us at (303) 860-0122.

Presentation Objectives

CPHP: Healthy Doctors Give Better Care

At the conclusion of this presentation, the participant should be able to:
  • Have an understanding of the types of illnesses that can affect physicians and for which a referral to CPHP would be helpful (or necessary)
  • Be aware of the common warning signs of illness that should prompt a referral for evaluation
  • Understand how the cultural environment in the medical community may exacerbate risk factors and increase denial that health problems exist and/or discourage physicians to seek help
  • Be aware of the scope and type of CPHP services available
  • Know how to make a referral
  • Know what to expect if a diagnosis is confirmed
  • Be aware of the possible outcomes based on the type of diagnosis established
  • Understanding of the legal and regulatory environment for physicians with health problems within Colorado

Running on Empty: Combating Burnout

At the conclusion of this presentation, the participant should be able to:
  • Understand the basic concepts of work stress along with the symptoms and stages of burnout
  • Be able to identify the unique stressors in a physician’s life and specific risk factors
  • Have learned several methods for combatting burnout as a physician
  • Be able to implement changes to work environment and personal practices to decrease stress
  • Have learned innovative organizational strategies for addressing burnout
  • Be aware of the scope and type of services available and how to access CPHP

Being a Physician: The Top 10 Things You Wish You Had Known

At the conclusion of this presentation, the participant should be able to:
  • Identify the various occupational hazards of being a physician such as: depression and suicide, addiction, poor healthcare for physicians and their families, high degree of work stress, problems with work/life balance, professional boundary problems
  • Understand ways to prepare for and cope with occupational hazards
  • Be aware of how to assist a distressed colleague
  • Have an understanding of the types of illnesses that can affect physicians and for which a referral to CPHP would be helpful (or necessary)
  • Be aware of the scope and type of CPHP services available
  • Know how to access CPHP

What’s Your Drug of Choice: Doctors and Addiction

At the conclusion of this presentation, the participant should be able to:
  • Understand health issues including substance use disorders of physicians; do they differ from the general population and if so, how?
  • Learn the types of situations and/or health issues that may affect a physician’s ability to practice with reasonable skill and safety.
  • Appreciate the difference between illness and impairment
  • Understand why and how physicians’ addictive disorders need professional peer evaluation, treatment and monitoring
  • Recognize the signs and symptoms of illness including addiction among physicians
  • Be aware of the scope and type of CPHP services available
  • Know how to access CPHP

Physician Heal Thyself? Thriving in the Face of Stress

At the conclusion of this presentation, the participant should be able to:
  • Understand the basic concepts of work stress
  • Be able to identify the unique stressors in a physician’s life
  • Have learned about the physician work stress syndromes of burnout and malpractice stress
  • Have learned several methods for managing physician work stress
  • Be aware of the scope and type of CPHP services available
  • Know how to access CPHP

Doctors Without Borders: Maintaining Professional Boundaries

At the conclusion of this presentation, the participant should be able to:
  • Describe the range of professional boundary issues, with patients and coworkers, that most physicians face
  • Implement strategies for identifying and addressing typical boundary challenges
  • Understand the harm to patients, workplaces and physicians that can result from poorly managed professional boundaries
  • Know how to obtain consultations about boundary concerns
  • Be aware of the scope and type of CPHP services available
  • Know how to access CPHP

R.E.S.P.E.C.T. – Find Out What it Means to Medicine

At the conclusion of this presentation, the participant should be able to:
  • Define and identify problem behavior or “disruptive” behavior
  • Identify common illnesses that may contribute to or cause problem behavior
  • Understand the role and responsibility of the workplace
  • Understand CPHP’s role in the evaluation and monitoring of “disruptive” physicians
  • Be aware of the scope and type of CPHP services available
  • Know how to access CPHP

Out on the Range: Rural Medicine

At the conclusion of this presentation, the participant should be able to:
  • Be able to identify the unique stressors in a rural physician’s life
  • Have learned about the distinct differences between the practice of medicine in both a rural setting and versus an urban setting
  • Have learned methods for practices/hospitals to maintain a productive, satisfied workforce
  • Identify the pros and cons of rural practice and delivery of care
  • Be aware of the scope and type of CPHP services available
  • Know how to access CPHP

More About Working With CPHP

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