CBT Yellowknife

The Aurora Capital of North America

The Northern Lights

February 3, 2017

18.0 Mainpro+ credits

Tuition $495 CDN

FEEDBACK

 

Is medical CBT applicable for rural & remote practices? Judge for yourself from the summary of the feedback from the February 3, 2017 workshop in Yellowknife:

  • Steve Kraus, MD (President, NWTMA) of Yellowknife, NT wrote, "Excellent, practical, up-to-date info... great presenter, very enjoyable... fun." 
  • Jennifer Harris, MD of Yellowknife, NT wrote, “Very practical quick & dirty pearls... applicable & appropriate... now I feel like I have a plan to manage challenging patients."
  • Katherine Kohle, MD of Yellowknife, NT wrote, “Practical, quick & USABLE tips... engaging & entertaining... much more likely to be applied to practice in a meaningful way than other psychiatric CME... makes almost every encounter easier / more effective / less frustrating."
  • Nicole Radziminski, MD (pediatrician) of Yellowknife, NT wrote, “10/10... practical applications." 
  • John McLean, MD of Yellowknife, NT wrote, “Sensible & "down to earth"... it would have made my clinical life much easier if I'd had this training back in medical school."
  • Alyssa Titus, MD of Yellowknife, NT wrote, “Very engaging... excellent practicality... not bogged down in the usual details in CME."
  • Kali Orchard, MD of Yellowknife, NT wrote, “Excellent presenter, very interesting & relevant... much better than other psychiatric CME... I'm much better prepared for patients' resistance."

 

MORE FEEDBACK... 

 

Enjoyable... practical and useful... helpful and optimistic for patients... lots of spontaneous examples and lots of opportunities to contribute and ask questions... Excellent… the speaker understands what family physicians need... very relevant to practice... Very practical... entertaining... if I’d had this training 30 years ago I would not be so burned out... Excellent ...Engaging presenter... Excellent... covered all of the relevant strategies that clinicians encounter and validated the strategies I was using work!... a great package... Excellent... practical... Relevant material... kept my attention ...Focused and to the point... Concise... amazing expertise!... clearly knew the work.... kept all participants' attention... great visuals... easy to apply in practice... very well done!...Engaging and humorous... brief interventions we can use in daily practice... If I’d had this training earlier I’d have had less personal frustration and better time management… very practical... I had to learn this through trial and error over my 30 years of practice... Excellent... practical tips... I will now be more effective in the use of my time... Good practical points to take home... more practical than other psychiatric CME ... ... Very useful and insightful tools... most beneficial... very useful... sense of humor!... will be attending more medical CBT courses... Very effective in actual practice... Much more practical and applicable than other psychiatric training I’ve done...

 

CBT Canada and the Northwest Territories Medical Association are pleased to present a Medical CBT Day on Friday, February 3, 2017. The workshop will be held at the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Center from 9:00AM to 4:30PM. Both a continental breakfast (8:30AM to 9:00AM) and a catered lunch (12:00PM to 1:00PM) are included.

The workshop location is the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre, centrally located at 4750 48th Street on YK's Frame Lake (map). It opened in 1979 as the Northwest Territory's main museum and archives (link).

Head instructor Greg Dubord, MD is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto, and the prime developer of medical CBT. He has presented over 400 workshops, including 50 for the College of Family Physicians of Canada, and is a University of Toronto CME Teacher of the Year. Assistant faculty includes Robert Krushel, MD.

OVERVIEW

 

Good-enough CBT can be integrated into ten-minute primary care appointments. In this six-hour workshop, you'll learn the essentials of a skill that may fundamentally change how you deal with mental health issues. Topics include:

  1. Techniques for increasing medication compliance
  2. Tools for more effective health behavior change
  3. How to identify and treat an empathy addiction
  4. The concept of patient maturity and natural consequences
  5. The importance of not working harder than (most) patients
  6. Persistent depressive disorder (dysthymia) management
  7. Diagnosis and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder
  8. Tips for managing borderline personality disorder
  9. Tips for intervening with suicidal ideation
  10. Ten-minute couples counseling

The unrelenting focus of the workshop is practical tools for immediate use in rural & remote clinical practice.

This 6.0 hour workshop is "triple strength" (3:1) accredited for 18.0 Mainpro+ credits by the College of Family Physicians of Canada. Tuition is $495 for physicians, $295 for allied health professionals, and $195 for residents. Both breakfast, lunch, and snacks are included.

On August 30, 2016 CBT Canada became the first CME provider ever to be certified by the College of Family Physician of Canada to offer "triple strength" (3:1) credits in the new Mainpro+ system. The report of one of the CFPC accreditation reviewers was very succinct: "Two words: superlative & exemplary."

Yellowknife attractions

Northern Lights (aurora borealis) are very frequent in Yellowknife. Galileo named them after the Roman goddess of dawn (aurora) and the Greek name for the north wind (boreas). But it was the Norse who discovered that they were caused by the flickering armour of warlike virgins on horseback. If you're considering an organized tour to see the flickering ladies, consider the Aboriginal North Star Adventures.

Reality TV buffs have a lot to explore in YK. The old DC3s and their pilots at Buffalo Air are the stars of the History Channel’s Ice Pilots. The "toughest job in the world" is featured in the popular series Ice Road Truckers. And Animal Planet has a “reality” show about YK’s houseboaters called Ice Lake Rebels.

Yellowknife accommodations

CBT Canada won the National CME Program Award from the College of Family Physicians of Canada for providing "exceptional learning experiences" in its series of medical CBT training workshops.

CBT Canada Refund Policy

You may transfer 100% of your tuition to another workshop (free)
or receive a full refund (minus a 25% processing fee)