1 CME Credits
22 STUDENTS ENROLLED
This course focuses on equipping healthcare professionals with evidence-based techniques and strategies to manage and mitigate stress in their demanding work environments. By exploring stress inoculation principles, participants will learn how to build resilience, handle workplace challenges effectively, and enhance their emotional well-being. This training will provide practical tools to improve self-care, maintain focus under pressure, and prevent burnout.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this course, participants will:
- Identify the psychological and physiological impacts of stress on healthcare professionals and understand how chronic stress can affect mental health, decision-making and patient care
- Implement stress inoculation techniques to prepare for, manage, and recover from high stress situations, ensuring long term resilience and improved professional performance
- Develop personalized self-care strategies that can be integrated into daily routines, promoting mental and emotional well-being and reducing the risk of burnout.
Course Structure
This course is self-paced and available to any user who registers with the Maine Medical Association, Center for Quality Improvement Learning Lab. The course consists of multiple sub-sections or units and will contain various elements, including video lessons, hyperlinks to readings and web resources, and pre-and post-tests for you to gauge your knowledge and understanding of the course topic.
Estimated Time to Complete: 60 minutes
Note: The course is divided into short digestible units (10-20 minutes in length) that can be completed in small increments.
Disclosures
The planners, presenters, and speakers do not have any relevant financial relationships to disclose. Their position titles and organizational affiliations are those at the time the course was recorded.
Elizabeth Murphy-Lewis LCSW, LADC NPI
Owner
Elizabeth Murphy-Lewis Counseling & Mental Health
Amy Carter, BSHA-M
Director
Maine Medical Association Center for Quality Improvement
Janet Johnson
Administrative Assistant
Maine Medical Association Center for Quality Improvement
Funding Statement
Funding for this online course was provided by the Maine Board of Licensure in Medicine.
Joint Providership Statement
The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education and the Maine Medical Association, Center for Quality Improvement. The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education is accredited by the Maine Medical Association Committee on Continuing Medical Education and Accreditation to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Launch: July 1, 2025
Expires: June 30, 2028
Assessment and Grading
This course begins with a pre-test that will test your knowledge and allow you to gauge your baseline understanding of the topics to be covered. At the end of the course, there is a post-test. A comparison of your pre-test score and post-test score will help you assess how much knowledge you’ve gained on the topic.
To Obtain a CME Certificate or a CME Certificate of Participation
- Complete all the units within the course
- Complete the Survey Monkey evaluation at the end of the course
Upon completion of the evaluation in Survey Monkey, including the required demographic information, a CME Certificate will be emailed to M.D.s and D.O.s and a CME Certificate of Participation will be emailed to all other learners. These certificates will be emailed within 10 business days of completing the evaluation.
Table of Contents
Getting Started
- Stress Inoculation Pre-Assessment
Course Units
- Stress Inoculation Unit 1
- Stress Inoculation Unit 2
- Stress Inoculation Unit 3
- Stress Inoculation Unit 4
Course Wrap Up
- Stress Inoculation Post-Assessment
- Stress Inoculation Course Evaluation