Dr. Ronald Epstein will be speaking on mindfulness in professional practice. Mindful practitioners attend in a nonjudgmental way to their own physical and mental processes during ordinary, everyday tasks. This critical self-reflection enables physicians to listen attentively to patients' distress, recognize their own errors, refine their technical skills, make evidence-based decisions, and clarify their values so that they can act with compassion, technical competence, presence, and insight. Mindfulness informs all types of professionally relevant knowledge, including propositional facts, personal experiences, processes, and know-how, each of which may be tacit or explicit. Dr. Epstein's presentation will be of particular interest to students and faculty who regularly interact with clients and/or patients. His work is relevant to all faculty as it serves as a way to improve our daily interactions with students.
Contact: David W. Steitz, PH.D., dsteitz4@naz.edu