Presentation in Greece: DOCTORS COMMUNICATION SKILLS – DOCTORS AND ELDERLY PATIENTS PERSPECTIVE
The project PRACTA was presented at the „First International Meeting on Well being and Preformance in Clinical Practice: "Doctors think. Doctors feel. Doctors do” which took place in Alexandroupolis, Greece, May 28th – June 1st, 2014. Oral communication titled DOCTORS COMMUNICATION SKILLS – DOCTORS AND ELDERLY PATIENTS PERSPECTIVE. A POLISH-NORWEGIAN RESEARCH PROJECT PRACTA was prepared and presented by PRACTA team members Magdalena Łazarewicz i Dorota Włodarczyk.
The conference aimed at highlighting that in order for healthcare systems to be truly patient-centred, safe, and efficient, they need primarily to protect the health and well being of their workers. As noted, the changing healthcare landscape means a greater burden for healthcare professionals who are expected to deliver the same quality of care with decreasing resources, while patient expectations of care remain stable or increase. Among unquestionable challenges of nowadays health care is ageing of societies and specific problems related to this group of patients. The conference had an fully interdisciplinary character and among participants were doctors, nurses, psychologists, ethics, sociologist and economists.
Beside orals and posters, keynote lectures aroused great interest. There were presented among others by:
Christina Maslach, Professor of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, USA: “New Directions for Dealing with Burnout"
Jean Wallace, Professor of Sociology, University of Calgary, Canada: “Physician Wellness: A Missing Quality Indicator”
Mary Catherine Beach, Associate Professor, School of Medicine, John Hopkins University: "Doctors think. Doctors feel. Doctors communicate".
