About the Event
COHORT B | JAN 5 – MAR 3, 9:00 – 11:00 AM WEEKLY (THU.)
Facilitated by Dr. Fiona Petigara: Fiona completed medical school at UBC and was a graduate of the Calgary Residency Program. She currently practices family medicine at South Hill Family Practice, and is a member of the Family Practice Maternity Service at BC Women’s Hospital. She is an advocate for her patients and prides herself on providing compassionate and holistic care. She has a love for languages and speaks Gujrati, Urdu, Hindi, and conversational French, Spanish, and Mandarin. Fiona is a strong advocate for mental health, which has led her to join the Cognitive Behavioral Skills (CBT) Skills Group Program as a facilitator.
This course will teach you concepts and strategies that will enhance your capacity to:
- Practice resiliency amidst the complexities of modern work and life.
- Understand and manage unhelpful patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving – yours and your patients’!
- Choose how you respond to stressors, rather than react.
- Share these pertinent and practical skills with your patients.
- Connect with your peers in an authentic and supportive way.