Rural Reach Webinar - Performance Under Pressure

Dr. Fil Gilic and Dr. Kavi Singh, bring us "Performance Under Pressure" for the next Rural Reach Webinar.

Please note, this is not an accredited event.

Free for SRPC Members / $50 for General Admission

Date: Thursday, Aug 1, 2024
Time: 8:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
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Location: Zoom - The link will be in the confirmation email

Can't make it live? No worries! The session will be recorded and shared with registered attendees.

Event Description:

Pressure and acute stress can dismantle even the best of physicians. We will go over the physiology of stress and its effects on cognitive and physical performance; and the deliberate ways in which we can armour ourselves against its ill effects and "flip the script"- letting stress fuel our performance at times when it matters most.

Learning Objectives:

Review a useful working model of human cognition. Review interactions between stress, cognitive load and human performance. Use effective strategies to maintain cognitive performance in high-stress situations.

Presenters:

Dr. Fil Gilic -  Full time rural EM physician, Kingston area
Simulation Educator, Queen's University. Founder of RuralResus.com rural medical education website and courses. After a stint in the Canadian Forces as a paratrooper, he tried to bike, sail, paddle and hike every type of environment he could find. He wandered the country as an itinerant ER doc until settling back to Kingston where he did his residency. He works in small towns around it while teaching across the nation. He tries to spend as much time in the outdoors with his two boys as he can muster.


Dr. Kavi Singh: Dr. Singh has worked for 25 years with the Inuit of Nunavik and the Cree of Eeyou Istchee (James Bay). From skidoo toboggan medevacs, to unfreezing IV lines in his armpits in a twin otter, he realized med school and residency didn’t quite prepare him for real life.  He has spent the last decade working on changing how acute care is approached and taught for austere environments.  Apart from paddling, BJJ & being in the mountains, he loves being with his young kids and wonderful wife.