Drawn to Medicine Physician Retreat

November 2, 2026 to November 6, 2026

The Drawn to Medicine Physician Retreat is a 5-day restorative and enriching experience for physicians seeking to enhance their mental health and build resilience through artistic embodiment practices.  Through small group reflection, mindfulness tools, and creative art practices, including writing, drawing, and dance, participants gain greater understanding of  interventions that can help reduce stress and anxiety and sustain and improve clinical practice.

Prior to the retreat, participants gather virtually to explore retreat themes through readings and group reflection, identify personal strengths and opportunities, and generate cohort relationships.  During the retreat, participants receive individual coaching sessions to discuss goals, learnings, and insights.

Target Audience

This activity is designed for practicing physicians involved in direct patient care who experience ethical conflict, burnout, or compassion fatigue in their professional roles.

Learning Objectives

  • Explain the concepts of moral stress, moral distress and moral injury and how each can contribute to the psychological strain experienced by healthcare workers; left unaddressed, these conditions can result in burnout and attrition.
  • Understand how embodiment practices can address personal and collective harms, including moral distress and moral injury, by alleviating emotional strain and psychological rigidity.
  • Explain how different expressive arts including writing, drawing and dance, function as restorative embodiment practices for processing emotion, reducing stress, and enhancing self-awareness.
  • Practice expressive arts through drawing, writing, and dance to notice changes in awareness, curiosity, patience, and empathy – all tools used daily in clinical practice.
  • Identify and develop at least one personalized expressive arts practice and create intention to integrate that practice into a routine.
  • Explore the creative arts as a potential tool for systems-level intervention to interrupt physician distress and sustain clinical careers.

Course summary

Available credit: 
  • 22.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    Physicians
    AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 22.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 22.50 Attendance

    Credits: 22.50

Course opens: 
03/12/2026
Course expires: 
06/30/2027
Event starts: 
11/02/2026 - 8:00am EST
Event ends: 
11/06/2026 - 5:00pm EST
Cost:
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Committee Member, Planner, Staff(s)

Emily Newfield, MD, MS

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.
Course Director(s)

Emily Newfield, MD, MS

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.
Speaker, Instructor, Faculty(s)

Emily Newfield, MD, MS

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

Sara Seinberg, Coach

has no relevant financial relationships to disclose at this time.

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare and Drawn to Medicine. AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

 

Physicians
AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this enduring material for a maximum of 22.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Available Credit

  • 22.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    Physicians
    AKH Inc., Advancing Knowledge in Healthcare designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 22.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 22.50 Attendance

    Credits: 22.50

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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