Improving Trainee Doctors’ Psychological Wellbeing: Optimising your Mental Health for Work and Study

Success starts with good mental health!... In just around 3 hours, this comprehensive course aims to equip you to quickly and easily make improvements to your mental health. You'll gain strategies which can immediately improve your psychological wellbeing & coping in the specific context of life as a trainee doctor. Better mental health improves motivation and performance. The workshop aims to support you not only to continue on your training pathway but to succeed. Expert guidance is provided by Dr. Catherine Tregoning, a Chartered Health Psychologist with 25 years of experience of working in medical education with trainees, & of researching & developing supportive training programmes. The course includes a number of thought-provoking activities which crucially will help you to focus upon yourself as an individual. Whilst everything you learn will undoubtedly help you as a trainee, it will also be of great benefit in your wider life. You're strongly encouraged to apply the course to your mental health overall and to yourself as a whole. To support you to continue using strategies learned on the course and to keep improving afterwards, three bonus downloadable extras are included. A certificate of completion from Dr. Catherine Tregoning is also available. Testimonial: "I really understand how I think now, everything seems clearer and I definitely feel much less stressed and more in control. At home and work. It can be hard to accept you're struggling, especially if you're a health professional and feel you should cope - but now I'm going to tell everyone they need this! I really think this will help me to be a better trainee."

Expert Guidance

Receive information, guidance and expert tips from a Chartered Health Psychologist, to help you feel equipped with the knowledge to move forward and improve your mental health, as well as know when and how to access support if you need it.

Learn coping strategies you can apply in your training & wider life

Learn strategies to strengthen your wellbeing, reduce your stress and anxiety, and improve your mood. Take control of your psychological health and feel better able to cope with training, working and aspects of your wider life.

Change how you think about yourself and life as a trainee

Receive support to change and relearn your daily mental health habits and responses to situations. Adopt approaches which will more positively impact upon your mindset, self-esteem, and all round wellbeing.

About the Workshop

Guided by a Chartered Health Psychologist, this workshop is designed to specifically support doctors in training. Recognising the demands of combining working, studying and challenges faced in wider life, the workshop aims to help you boost your mental wellbeing so that you're better equipped to cope with the demands you're presented with - and succeed on your pathway. We'll look at how to spot signs of your mental heath declining, alongside improving your awareness and understanding of stress, anxiety & depression. You'll learn how to improve your self-esteem, use mindfulness techniques, how to start conversations about your mental health, and much much more! If you feel you need it, information is also provided on how to access further support, including via your workplace. The course consists of 2.5 hours of online presentations plus around 30 minutes of time to pause and engage in self-directed activities. These activities support you to focus upon yourself as an individual and upon your own mental health specifically. Three additional downloads are available and included, to support you following the course. !!IMPORTANT!! To receive the maximum benefit from the course, it is highly recommended that you try to complete it in one sitting. However, if this is not possible, please be aware that once enrolled, you'll be able to access and re-visit the course for 7 days.

Meet Your Instructor, Dr. Catherine Tregoning PhD CPsychol AFBPsS

As an experienced Chartered Health Psychologist I'm here to guide you through improving your mental health. With 25 years experience of working in medical education, I have an in-depth understanding of the challenges you face. I've developed this comprehensive workshop to help you quickly begin to improve your psychological wellbeing, using many easily applied strategies.

What people are saying

See testimonials from trainees who have benefitted from this workshop...

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I was doing ok, didn't think I really needed any help or anything.... but one of my colleagues had done this and it sounded useful..... and wow what it a difference it has made, I do definitely feel soooo much more motivated. It opened my eyes to a lot of things I never knew. I've done a Psychiatry rotation and didn't know 99% of this!!!

Dr. LL

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I think that as doctors we sometimes expect too much of ourselves. I'd been struggling for a while, since the start of Foundation really, and this workshop was just what I needed. The tips for making lots of small changes/'marginal gains' which can add up, I particularly found useful, and these have made a big difference for me. I'm suddenly coping 100% better at work.

Dr. ML

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This is a very practical workshop and presented very well. Everything is explained. I don't usually really like doing things like this, but the idea of being more successful obviously appealed to me. I have resisted counselling as I have my doubts about confidentiality when it's accessed through work. So this was a really great alternative and I liked being able to work through it in privacy and quiet at home. I'd highly recommend it, especially if you feel stressed as a trainee, or are finding things difficult in any way.

Dr. CS

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I really haven't been coping, I've been taking time off work to manage, but this means I'm in danger of having missed too much this year. Now I've done this workshop I realise there's really a lot more I can do to help myself get through, which none of my 3 counsellors had told me! It's actually left me feeling positive for the first time in a long time, which surprised me, and I feel confident that I can keep going on my programme now.

Dr. GS

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I wish I'd been able to do this a lot earlier, like as a medical student or FY1, I think I would've had a much better experience if I had, and my mental health wouldn't have suffered due to the demands of training. We all need to know these strategies from the start. Why aren't we all provided with this kind of thing more routinely? We all want to succeed!

Dr. KB

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