Resilience for the Dental Provider
Speaker
Dr. John Schmidt serves as the Chair of the Department of Psychology, Naval Postgraduate Dental School (NPDS) and Naval Medical Leader & Professional Development Command (NMLPDC) and is a Professor at Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He graduated from Widener University with an electrical engineering degree, worked as a process control engineer and is a Navy Veteran. He earned his Masters and Doctorate degrees in clinical health psychology from the University of Kentucky.
After graduation, Dr. Schmidt completed a one-year clinical residency at the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, KY followed by a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in medical psychology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He remained at Mayo Clinic for three years as a Clinical Research Scholar (NIH K-award) completing additional training in human integrative physiology.
Prior to joining the NPDS faculty, he served as an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. He has published over fifty peer-reviewed academic journal articles, has co-authored four book chapters, and serves on the editorial board for the journal Pain Medicine.
Disclosure: Dr. Schmidt has no relevant financial relationships to report.
Course Description
As professionals, our daily lives are often guided by expectations, obligations, and deadlines. For many of us, the first thing we tend to neglect when we are juggling these numerous tasks is our own self-care. However, without regular self-care, our ability to manage our lives successfully and consistently both at work and at home suffers. We become less resilient to those ever-present life challenges. This talk will focus on defining resilience and how anyone can learn to be more resilient.
Educational Objectives
- Understand the concept and importance of resilience.
- Understand the skills and strengths associated with maintaining resilience.
- Learning how to integrate a set of skills focused on building resilience into one’s daily routine.