Training in Counselling and Psychotherapy in Family Medicine over 5 weekends
Counselling and Psychotherapy in Family Medicine Training Program, Dept. of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto
Do you have patients needing counselling or psychotherapy in your practice?
Do you want to be more effective in providing counselling and psychotherapy?
Do you want to work with your peers in a small-group mentoring setting dealing with your own cases?
Program Objectives
This interactive program will provide an intensive year-long introductory curriculum on current approaches and techniques to help physicians increase their knowledge and clinical skills in office counselling and psychotherapy.
At the conclusion of this program, participants will have:
- Increased their feeling of competence in office counselling and psychotherapy
- Enhanced their ability to work with psychosocial issues and the patient-doctor relationship
- Increased the time they spend in practice doing psychotherapy with individuals and families or couples
- Increased their overall comfort levels in counselling individuals, couples and families
Target Audience
Family Physicians in active practice who are either doing or considering to do Counselling and Psychotherapy as part of their practice. This program is particularly valuable for those who did not receive training in Counselling and Psychotherapy in medical school.
Dates for the Next Program in 2019-20
- September 27-29, 2019
- November 22-24, 2019
- January 31 – February 2, 2020
- March 27-29, 2020
- May 22-24, 2020
up to 210 Mainpro+ credits
For more information:
https://www.cpd.utoronto.ca/cpfm/