WCM-Q Dean to Give Webinar on Impact of Physical Distancing on Mental Health

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Published July 5th, 2020 - 09:42 GMT

WCM-Q Dean to Give Webinar on Impact of Physical Distancing on Mental Health

The webinars are aimed at physicians and other healthcare professionals, are designed to meet identified continuing professional development needs

Highlights

WCM-Q will give a live webinar on ways to minimize physical contact but maximize social contact during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Javaid Sheikh, Professor of Psychiatry and Dean of Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q), will give a live webinar on ways to minimize physical contact but maximize social contact during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The webinar, which will take place at 4pm on Wednesday, July 8, is titled ‘A Tale of Two Distances: Promoting Physical but Minimizing Social Distance During the COVID-19 Pandemic’ and is part of the ‘COVID-19 Live Webinar Clinical Series’ offered by the division of Continuing Professional Development at WCM-Q.

The webinars are aimed at physicians and other healthcare professionals, are designed to meet identified continuing professional development needs, and are based on the latest scientific and medical developments that will increase competence, enhance performance in practice and lead to improved healthcare for patients. The webinars are accredited locally by the Qatar Council for Healthcare Practitioners-Accreditation Department (QCHP-AD) and internationally by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).

For more information about the webinar and to register, visit https://qatar-weill.cornell.edu/continuing-professional-development/

Background Information

Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar

Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar is a partnership between Cornell University and Qatar Foundation. It offers a comprehensive six-year medical program leading to the Cornell University M.D. degree with teaching by Cornell and Weill Cornell faculty and by physicians at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Aspetar Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, the Primary Health Care Corporation, the Feto Maternal Center, and Sidra Medicine, who hold Weill Cornell appointments. Through its biomedical research program, WCM-Q is building a sustainable research community in Qatar while advancing basic science and clinical research. Through its medical college, WCM-Q seeks to provide the finest education possible for medical students, to improve health care both now and for future generations, and to provide high quality health care to the Qatari population.