Stress Management and Resiliency Training for Healthcare Professionals (SMART)

Friday, January 23, 2026, 12:00 PM - Friday, March 13, 2026, 1:00 PM, Virtual

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (4.00 hours), Non-Physician Attendance (4.00 hours), Participation Hours (4.00 hours)

The goal of this course is to provide healthcare professionals with the opportunity to learn, practice, and understand the science behind a variety of evidence-based tools that they can incorporate into their lives and clinical practices to reduce the negative physiologic effects of stress and its impact on healthcare professional well-being/burnout risk and thus improve quality and safety of patient care, as well as translate these skills to sharing with their patients. The skills taught in this course include a variety of mind-body practices (e.g., meditation, mindfulness, yoga, breathing exercises, short relaxations), cognitive skills (borrowed from CBT, ACT, and positive psychology), and lifestyle-based approaches (recuperative sleep, physical activity, nutrition, social support, creativity, and humor). The course will be delivered in a live online format with didactic material, experiential exercises, interactive exercises in small breakout rooms, and opportunities for reflection, discussion, and to ask questions. Course participants will also receive written material and access to a website with guided recordings to practice the tools taught between sessions.

The SMART Program will meet online once a week for 8 weeks from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm. Please note that you will need to only register once.

1. Develop personal strategies to enhance mindful awareness, curiosity, and listening skills to enhance cultural and linguistic competency.
2. Understand how stress exacerbates implicit bias.
3. Develop personal strategies to enhance mindful awareness and reduce physiologic stress to minimize the impact of implicit bias on patient care.
4. Define the body's response to stress, known as allostasis and allostatic load, and the role it plays in the development and/or exacerbation of medical conditions.
5. Identify the physiologic effects of the stress response and, in contrast, the relaxation response on the brain and body.
6. Recognize how modifiable lifestyle behaviors impact sleep and the role of sleep in resiliency.
7. Recognize how diet, physical activity, and social support contribute to resiliency.
8. Improve ability to motivate patients toward sustainable behavior change.
9. Acquire skill in state-of-the-art cognitive behavioral approaches to apply to patients with a range of stress-related emotional and physical problems.
10. Enhance the patient-provider relationship to positively affect patient outcomes.
11. Develop skill in multiple evidence-based tools for decreasing the physiologic effects of stress.
12. Develop a suite of self-care practices to enhance personal resilience and mitigate the negative effects of stress on clinical practice.

This Program is for UC Davis Health Physicians and APPs Only. 

The Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART) Program teaches participants many different self-care practices to reduce the negative health effects of stress. Regular practice of the skills taught in this program can enhance your well-being, improve your sleep and mood, and reduce physical symptoms such as pain and gastrointestinal distress that are exacerbated by stress.

The SMART Program will meet online once a week for 8 weeks from 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm. Please note that you will need to only register once.

Space is Limited.

The University of California, Davis, Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation Statement:

The University of California, Davis, Health designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 4.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM.   Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Accessibility Statement
 
University of California, Davis Health is committed to ensuring that its programs, services, goods and facilities are accessible to individuals with disabilities as specified under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Amendments Act of 2008.  If you have needs that require special accommodations, including dietary concerns, please contact the CME Conference Coordinator.

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University of California, Davis Health Continuing Medical Education adheres to the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.