This special edition is devoted entirely to the 2nd International Congress on Whole Person Care (12-15 October, 2017) and includes all accepted abstracts for oral presentations and posters that were presented at this conference.

Published: 2018-01-15

Congress 2017

Whole person medical education - moving beyond learning objectives and curriculum dot points

Hilton Koppe
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De-fuzzification of reflection in the education of health professionals

Edvin Schei, Abraham Fuks, Donald Boudreau
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Mindful Leadership in Interprofessional Teams

Keith De'Bell, Roberta Clark
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Personal narrative writing workshops for medical students and patients with HIV: narrative medicine in the post-HAART era

Ianthe Schepel, Jonathan Chou, Suad Kapetanovic, Anne Vo, Pamela Schaff
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Whole person integrative cancer care in action - an overview of its implementation and patient related outcomes

Dugald Seely, Julie Ennis
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Architecture’s creative contributions to healing: oncology patients in the Cedars Cancer Centre

Steph A Pang, Annmarie Adams, Virginia Lee
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Bringing wonder into medicine: a film-based curriculum

Carla Gayle Gober-Park, Hobart Lee, Kathy McMillan, Kris Lozano
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A new communication skills training program for palliative care fellow-physicians

Cristopher MacKinnon, Stefanie Gingras, Sonia Skamene, Deborah Ummel
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Narrative Medicine, Healing and Salutogenesis: Contrasting meta-narratives

Joel Kreisberg, Gary Huffaker
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Beyond stress reduction: A conceptual model of intrapersonal transformation through mindfulness interventions

Andrea Nadine Frolic, Sandra Moll
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Do Canadian and Japanese palliative care physicians perceive the concept of resilience differently?

Shizuma Tsuchiya, Yusuke Takamiya, Alenoush Saroyan, Linda Snell
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Introducing graphic medicine: care and comics

Robert Graham
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Reflective practice and the role of transformational learning in healthcare

Richard Hovey, Steven Jordan, Christophe Bedos, Charo Rodriguez, Nareg Apelian
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Whole person care rounds: helping a hospital heal

Glen Komatsu
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Beyond numbers: learning from the experience of kidney-transplant recipients

Stephanie Bogue Kerr, Marguerite Soulière, Lorraine Bell
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Where did everybody go? Working with anxiety when cancer treatment ends

Anne Pitman, Rabia Wilcox
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It was Lauren - and she just wanted to help. Putting the human side back into the critical illness experience

David Hornstein
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The head start program for women newly diagnosed with breast cancer

Dugald Seely, Anne Pitman, Julie Ennis, Rabia Wilcox
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Playing jeopardy by not treating the whole person with arthritis

Patricia Lynn Dobkin, Gilles Boire
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Implementation of an Iraqi women’s behavioral health support group: Lessons learned in a pre and post US election climate

Winnie Hunter, Shruti Dasgupta, Enas Alsharea, Emma Williams
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Dialectical behavior therapy skills training: Paving the way to healthy relationships

Ricardo Lucena
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Mindfulness group for mentally ill patients in remission

Suzanne Lamarre, Lily Gozlan, Eric Billon
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Healing: Toward a practical definition and clinical understanding

Joseph Burley, Mary Jane McDowell
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Intervening with persons experiencing mental illness and substance use: Patient perceptions of helpful care during psychiatric hospitalization

Lydia Ould Brahim, Cezara Hanganu, Catherine P. Gros
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When third spaces become therapeutic: The value of complementary therapies and the search for meaning in tertiary care cancer

Virginia Lee, Jennifer Finestone, Helen Rossiter, Rosemary Reilly
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Palliative Care SBAR - A story of forbidden love between SBAR and TWTW with some GRRRR throw in as well

James Jap
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Bringing diversity of experience into decision-making about surgery: developing an app for that

Ilja Ormel, Susan Law, Michel Lortie, Charles Onu, Donna Tataryn
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Mindful congruence, four noble truths and healing relationships

Patricia Lynn Dobkin
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Exploration of Touch in Faculty of Medicine? Presentation and exploration of touch and perspective in practice

Josée Lachance, Florence Vinit, Jacques Hillion
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Having fun with role plays

Hilton Koppe
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Building resilience: an innovative reflective writing method for clinical palliative care – the 55 word story

Cory Ingram, Lucille Marchand, Ellen Wild
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Nurturing whole person care with nature

Lynn Leach, Cheryl Moore
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Awakening the Sensible Being (ASB) as experienced by physicians: development of a theoretical model

Josée Lachance, Jean-François Desbiens, Marianne Xhignesse
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What is preventing dentists from providing person-centred care?

Nareg Apelian, Jean-Noel Vergnes, Richard Hovey, Christophe Bedos
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Partnering to develop resilience in health professionals and faculty through mindfulness-based education

Andrea Nadine Frolic, Elaine Principi, Alan Taniguichi, Ken Burgess, Valerie Spironello, Anne Wong
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Engaging heARTS: Developing an arts-based curriculum to enhance compassion and creativity in healthcare

Andrea Nadine Frolic, Marilyn Swinton, Darla Biccum, Marybeth Leis Druery, Megan English, Jennifer Molinaro
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Envisioning a McGill University lifelong learning and living (L4) community

Ruth Allan Rigby, Marlene Chan, April L. Colosimo
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Using literature to promote reflection in medical school

Catherine Courteau, Laurence Laneuville
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A novel source of patients' and families' written words to identify what they value in the doctor-patient encounter

Mark Yaffe, Richard Hovey, Charo Rodriguez
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The self-care education for healthcare professional students using mindfulness

Yusuke Takamiya, Shizuma Tsuchiya
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Ontological exercises to overcome mismatch diseases’ obstacles to holistic health

Simon Rousseau
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Strength based nursing: caring for the whole person

Christina MacDonald, Renata Benc, Anna T. Buono, Louise Champagne, Gabrielle Chartier, Andrea Cooke, Nancy Drummond, Kim Gartshore, Antoinette Ehrler, Laurie Gottlieb
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Person-Centered Care: Perspectives of free dental clinic users in Montréal, Canada

Nioushah Noushi, Christophe Bedos, Nareg Apelian, Jean-Noel Vergnes, Charo Rodriguez
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Conversations that count: Advance Care Planning as preventative medicine

Kate Grundy, Jane Goodwin, Elaine McLardy
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Concept of architectural sphere spaces design for children with autistic spectrum disorders

Hoda Shahmohammadian, Alireza Baghban Parashkohi
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A patient expectation and satisfaction survey with regards to exercise prescription from their osteopathic manual practitioner

Angela Miller
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