Text Box: Patient Centered Care Text Box: Essential Skills for the Family Physician Text Box: Behavioral Health Training Text Box: community—interpreters, community health nurses, community health workers. Develop your capacity for professional and personal fulfillment by creating a personal mission statement, learning leadership skills, and practicing self-reflection through Balint group and writing workshops. Text Box: Your behavioral health skills are the foundation of every interaction you have with a patient. When you finish residency at Waukesha you will have the knowledge, understanding and clinical skills to care for each patient as a unique individual in the context of their family, community and culture. We help you achieve this with a behavioral health teaching team that includes a full-time behavioral scientist psychologist, a nurse practitioner, a psychiatrist, and family physicians. At Waukesha you will: Learn interviewing and counseling skills in the family practice center and on our inpatient medicine service. Feedback is provided by behavioral rehearsal, direct observation and video review. Incorporate behavioral medicine principles and techniques into your treatment Text Box: of psycho-physiological problems (chronic pain, headache, asthma), and managing chronic illness. You will teach patients self-monitoring, goal setting, relaxation, cognitive restructuring, and behavior change. Work collaboratively with a team that extends your impact beyond the clinic into the Text Box: treatment issues, bad news, transition to nursing home, etc. Be a catalyst for your patients’ health behavior change by using a stages of change counseling model and motivational Text Box: Organize your office visits so you provide patient-centered care, treating medical problems while caring for the whole person. Identify, assess & help patients suffering from depression, anxiety, alcohol Text Box: and drug problems, Recognize and confidently manage crises including a suicidal patient, child abuse and partner violence. Run family conferences to discuss challenging Text Box: Waukesha Family Medicine Residency Text Box: Awesome Graduates, Awesome Service, Awesome Environment