Clinical Supervision Educational Sessions – Supporting Student Progress in Training and Supervision with Visiting Speakers Ian MacFarlane and Krista Redlinger-Grosse, University of Minnesota

This event is co-sponsored by the MSc in Genetic Counselling Program, the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences and supported by the Faculty Development Initiative Fund

New research finds that health care trainees experience stress, anxiety, and perfectionism that impacts performance, especially in the field. Find out how to disrupt this emotional experience and improve trainee performance.

Join a facilitated discussion about common mental health issues facing healthcare trainees. You’ll talk about stress and anxiety and how it impacts fieldwork experiences of trainees and then adapt strategies for addressing these concerns to improve trainees’ experience of being supervised, receiving feedback, and being evaluated.

Learning objectives:

• Identify the ways in which stress and anxiety impacts student’s fieldwork performance
• Describe the role (or scope) the supervisor plays in supporting student stress and anxiety
• Describe evaluation in supervision and the way in which stress and anxiety impact the evaluation process
• Identify strengths and weaknesses in a role played scenario about student evaluation
• Formulate a plan for implementing strategies to manage student stress and anxiety in evaluation

Facilitators
Krista Redlinger-Grosse, PhD, ScM, CGC: Krista’s teaching and research interests focus on the integration of the fields of genetic counseling and psychology through clinical work and education. She is the Director of Fieldwork and Supervisory Training for the University of Minnesota Genetic Counseling Training Program and has published peer review and invited commentaries in the areas of genetic counseling processes and outcomes, diversity and equity and the intersection of genetic counseling and psychotherapy. She regularly conducts workshops on professional development, supervision training, and psychological well-being and currently serves on the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion committee for the Minnesota Genetic Counselors Association.

Ian MacFarlane, PhD: Ian is the Director of Admissions and Associate Director of Research for the University of Minnesota Genetic Counseling Training program, where he studies professional development and supervision in genetic counseling and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses on cultural engagement and identity in genetic counseling and medicine. In addition to publishing research on supervision and conducting supervisor trainings, he serves on the GC Workforce Working Group Task Force on Clinical Supervision Training, the Advisory Board for the international Clinical Supervision Research Collective, and co-chairs the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology and Development’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee at the University of Minnesota.

Location: Chown A207A&B