Enabling compassion in organizational change

Tina Martimianakis

Tina’s AMS fellowship aimed to understand the unintended effects of organizational change and how health professionals navigate the competing priorities in their work that can lead to burnout and disengagement. 

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Compassion 360: Transforming hospital culture using mindfulness and compassion

This project focussed on developing the resilience of HCPs through evidence-based mindfulness and compassion practices. She developed training and mindfulness communities of practice for her hospital. These programs help leaders, physicians, and frontline staff train their brains to focus on the present moment. This translates into a more resilient, compassionate, efficient, and effective workforce.

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Exploring end-of-life care in the emergency department

Anastasia observed providers, patients, and caregivers and heard their end-of-life perspectives. After reflecting upon the process of care, she shared findings to contribute to more humane, compassionate, end-of-life care in the emergency department.

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Promoting community service in surgery

The goal of Yvonne’s fellowship was to develop caring surgeons through volunteerism and social outreach and activism during their residency training. She promoted community outreach as part of the surgical curriculum.

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Compassionate approaches for leading change and evaluating educational programming within complex systems

Approaches to evaluating education still assume that evaluation is about rendering judgement about the quality of the work of others. This Fellowship is evaluating a new program evaluation model that enables improved identification and understanding of how a simulation-based curriculum in client and family-centred care brings value to the people in the system. The Fellowship…

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