On 5th December, we held a SafetyNet webinar on Taking the weather into account – the relationship between emotions and performance, with Dr Vicki LeBlanc, Chair and Professor of Dept of Innovation in Medical Education, University of Ottawa. 

Watch the recording:

Health professionals are regularly confronted with emotional events in the delivery of care. While some of these events induce extreme emotional states such as stress, most are associated with milder states such as frustration at a perceived lack of professionalism, sadness at an undesired patient prognosis, or happiness following a positive clinical encounter. Current research in neuroscience and cognitive sciences indicates that emotions modulate a variety of cognitive processes, including perception, memory, attention, and reasoning. As such, emotion-evoking situations likely affect what information health professionals attend to, what they remember, as well as the way in which they make decisions in practice. The purpose of this presentation is to present an overview of the literature on emotions and performance, and discuss the implications for patient care.

Biography:  

Vicki LeBlanc, PhD, is the Chair and Professor of the Department of Innovation in Medical Education at the University of Ottawa. She has over 20 years’ experience leading research into a) the effects of emotions and stress on the performance of health professionals and frontline workers, and b) optimizing the use of simulation in health professions education. She has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications, and regularly presents her work nationally and internationally. She has held several national-level leadership roles related to scholarship, accreditation and educator development in simulation-based education. She serves on the editorial boards of Advances in Health Sciences Education and Simulation in Healthcare.

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