Self-care for health professional students: Lifestyle Medicine, mindfulness & Monash University’s Health Enhancement Program

It is amazing how little most health professional students are taught about lifestyle management, self-care and mindfulness throughout their training. This deficit in training has a number of negative implications. Such skills are central to training the informed, competent and safe health practitioners of the future for five main reasons including:

1. The wellbeing of health professionals is important for its own sake;
2.  The modern health practitioner tends to be massively under informed about the evidence and importance of lifestyle medicine and mindfulness
3.  Health professionals must be able to help their patients with non-pharmaceutical approaches like lifestyle and stress management the mindful health
4.  Professional tends to communicate better and be more compassionate and prosocial
5.  The healthy health professional is more clinically competent and safe.

This live interactive webinar will explore these issues and how we go about addressing them through the core-curricular Health Enhancement Program at Monash University.