Mental Skills Training to Make Your Average Performance Excellent: Participation in the Indiana University Mental Skills Curriculum


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Add to Calendar Mental Skills Training to Make Your Average Performance Excellent: Participation in the Indiana University Mental Skills Curriculum 9/5/2025 7:30:00 AM 9/5/2025 5:00:00 PM America/New_York For More Details: https://iu.cloud-cme.com/MTS-2025-09 Description: Stressful events are regularly encountered in the healthcare environment especially during surgical cases. Excessive stress has known negative effects on surgeons' performance, and such events may lead to poor technical (e.g., fine motor dexterity) and nontechnical (e.g., concentration, interpersonal and communication, etc.) performance and compromise patient safety. Mental skills are cognitive strategies that help individua... Medical Education and Research Building, room 1024 false MM/DD/YYYY


Date & Location
Friday, September 5, 2025, 7:30 AM - 5:00 PM, Medical Education and Research Building, room 1024, Indianapolis, IN

Target Audience
Specialties - Congenital Cardiac Surgery, Craniofacial Surgery , Hand Surgery , Neurological Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery , Ophthalmology, Orthopaedic Surgery of the Spine, Orthopaedic Trauma, Orthopedic Surgery, Pediatric Surgery , Plastic Surgery, Surgery General, Surgical Critical Care , Thoracic Surgery, Thoracic Surgery-Integrated, Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Vascular Surgery
Professions - Non-Physician, Physician, Technician

Overview
Stressful events are regularly encountered in the healthcare environment especially during surgical cases. Excessive stress has known negative effects on surgeons' performance, and such events may lead to poor technical (e.g., fine motor dexterity) and nontechnical (e.g., concentration, interpersonal and communication, etc.) performance and compromise patient safety. Mental skills are cognitive strategies that help individuals consistently achieve optimal performance under high-stress conditions. Programs that teach mental skills have been shown to enhance performance in athletics and the armed forces. Recently, our group has developed a novel, comprehensive mental skills curriculum (MSC) to optimize surgical performance. This curriculum, which features skills such as goal setting, energy and attention management, mental imagery, refocusing strategies, and performance routines, has been implemented successfully with pre-medical students and residents and effectively reduced learners’ stress, enhanced laparoscopic skill acquisition and retention, attention, and significantly better maintained surgical performance under stressful conditions. Attendees of this workshop will be taught our well-researched mental skills curriculum over a period of 8 hours. Through an engaging presentation, interactive discussion among attendees, and applied practice of mental skills throughout the entire workshop, learners will obtain the needed skills to reduce their stress during clinical performance and optimize their performance.

Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  1. Identify how stress can impact health care providers’ performance
  2. Discuss the rationale, benefits, and applications of mental skills training
  3. Recognize the benefits of regular mental skills training
  4. Acquire the following performance-enhancing mental skills: Goal Setting (developing action plans for performance), Energy Management (reducing or raising physiological state as needed), Attention Management (managing thoughts and attention, mindfulness), Mental Imagery (utilizing mental rehearsal for health care performance), Refocusing Strategies (developing comprehensive strategies to refocus in response to distractions), Performance Routines (develop comprehensive routines to optimize mental and physical readiness)

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, Indiana University School of Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

Physicians
Indiana University School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 8.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

American Board of Surgery (ABS)
Successful completion of this CME activity enables the learner to earn 8.25 credit toward the CME of the American Board of Surgery's Continuous Certification Program. It is the CME activity's provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit. 


Additional Information

For questions about accessibility or to request accommodations please contact the IUSM CME office at 317-274-0104 or [email protected]. One week advance notice will allow us to provide seamless access. Please ensure to specify the accommodations you need in order to participate.


Credits
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (8.25 hours), ABS CC (8.25 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (8.25 hours)