What you'll learn

  • Define the body’s response to stress, known as allostasis and allostatic load, and the role it plays in the development or exacerbation of medical conditions

  • Recognize how modifiable lifestyle behaviors synchronized to circadian rhythm builds resiliency

  • Enrich patient-provider relationship to affect patient outcomes

  • Develop skills in a variety of meditation methods that elicit the relaxation response

  • Evaluate the epidemiology of provider burnout and its consequences

  • See the course registration page for additional learning objectives

Course description

This is an accredited, livestreamed course offered by Massachusetts General Hospital. This course is targeted to health professionals who provide direct patient care or patient education in areas of self-management, lifestyle behaviors and mind body medicine.

Select the Take Course button to view additional information on the course registration page.

Contact ceprograms@hms.harvard.edu with questions.

*Register before September 20 to receive the discounted price.

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