Managing Your Emotions course for GPs
This session explains the importance of doctors managing their own emotions in the consultation, and suggests some ways that this can be done.
This session was reviewed by Khyati Bakhai and last updated in June 2018.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this session you will be able to:
- Develop a professional approach to managing your emotions in general practice
- Recognise a wide range of emotions that a GP may experience
- Identify potential causes of emotional stress in practice
- Reflect upon the range and causes of your own emotional reactions
- Acquire a range of measures and skills to protect you against emotional stress
- Demonstrate an understanding of the potential benefits of a GP’s emotional self-awareness to empathy and clinical insight
Being a doctor is potentially more stressful than belonging to any other profession. At every stage of your career you will come into contact with patients whose situations are harrowing and who are themselves often in states of extreme emotional arousal.
Roger Neighbour OBE DSc MA FRCGP FRCP FRACGP was a GP, trainer and VTS course organiser in Hertfordshire from 1974 to 2003. He was an MRCGP examiner for 20 years and Convenor of the Panel of Examiners 1997-2002. In 2003 Roger was elected President of the Royal College of General Practitioners for a three-year term.
He is the author of The Inner Consultation, The Inner Apprentice and I’m Too Hot Now, and of numerous papers on medical education and consulting skills. Now retired from clinical practice, Roger continues to teach about the consultation throughout the UK and worldwide.
In 2011 he was made an OBE for services to medical education.
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