MIKMO041c Personal Development Management - practice

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/0.4/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Bc. Zdeňka Barešová (seminar tutor)
PhDr. Pavel Humpolíček, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Tatiana Malatincová, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
doc. PhDr. Alena Slezáčková, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Mgr. Pavel Strašák (seminar tutor)
doc. PhDr. Miroslav Světlák, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
MUDr. Rastislav Šumec, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
MUDr. Monika Lekárová (assistant)
Mgr. Edita Pešáková, DiS. (assistant)
Blanka Suchá (assistant)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Miroslav Světlák, Ph.D.
Department of Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Blanka Suchá
Supplier department: Department of Medical Psychology and Psychosomatics – Theoretical Departments – Faculty of Medicine
Prerequisites
Lectures are only in the Czech language.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The objectives of the subject are to enable students to:
- Help students identify their own sources of motivation for the profession of health care professional
- To teach students basic methods of stress management
- To teach students basic relaxation and mindfulness-based stress reduction techniques
- Help students identify their own sources of self-support
- Help students develop self-compassion, self-acceptance and sensitivity to their needs and feelings, through direct and repetitive practice of relaxation and mindfulness-based techniques
- To teach students the basic skills of time management and the development of self-support network outside of employment
- Help students identify the sources of stress in their lives
- Help students identify the “unhealthy” habits of mind
- Helping students expand their repertoire of options in response to psychosocial stress in their personal and professional lives
- To encourage the awareness of own personal responsibility in the onset of mental stress
Learning outcomes
- Student understands which motives may be in the background of a medical profession
- Understands the concept of self-support and is able to identify own sources of self-support
- Student can practice basic formal exercises from Mindfulness-based stress reduction program
- Student can practice the Autogenous training
- Student can practice Jacobson's progressive relaxation
- Student knows his/her own stress management strategies and is able to assess its adaptability and efficiency
- Student knows and has the practical skills necessary to develop Resilience
- Student is more sensitive to chronic stress signal and has both theoretical and practical equipment to respond adaptively to these symptoms
- Student has acquired and tested the "basics of effective crew communication" and “Principle-centered leadership" and is able to apply these principles in work team and personal relationships
- Student is able to recognize the signs of bullying at the workplace and knows how to dealt with this situation
- Student understands the meaning and importance of individual and group supervision in health care
- Student understands the importance of individual psychotherapy in the process of self-development
- Student understands the meaning of personal vision and mission in the context of well-being
Syllabus
  • - Motivation of the medical profession
  • - External and internal self-support system
  • - Adaptive and non-adaptive emotion regulation strategies - Emotional awareness - “Unhealthy” habits of mind - Risk behavior and methods for its reduction - Autogenic training
  • - Mindfulness-based stress reduction
  • - Supervision in medicine
  • - Team supervision
  • - Basics of effective crew communication" and “Principle-centered leadership"
Literature
    required literature
  • SIEGEL D. RONALD. Velká kniha relaxačních technik. Praha: Grada 2016. 312 s. ISBN 978-80-247-5569-4
Teaching methods
Self-experience exercises.
Assessment methods
Full attendance is required for credit.
Language of instruction
Czech
Study support
https://is.muni.cz/auth/el/med/jaro2025/MIKMO041c/
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 6.
The course is also listed under the following terms spring 2021, spring 2022, spring 2023, spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (spring 2025, recent)
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