Applying Sport Psychology to Improve Clinical Performance with Dr Helen Church. EP #510

This BJSM podcast discusses how health care professionals can learn from the sports psychology world. Noting the similarities between athletes and health care professionals Dr Helen Church has put together a new PERFORM (Performance Enhancing Routine for Optimisation of Readiness using Metacognition) framework, using Performance Enhancing Routines to improve clinical performance. She provides practical advice on how you and your practise can benefit from simple sport psychology measures giving some fantastic examples for inspiration.

Dr Helen Church is a GP trainee and academic clinical lecturer at the University of Nottingham, working as a clinical assistant professor in medical education. This podcast is hosted by Dr Shona Kohlhardt.

Links to useful papers further discussing sports psychology in clinical performance:

1. Using Insights From Sports Psychology to Improve Recently Qualified Doctors’ Self-Efficacy While Managing Acutely Unwell Patients (Church et al., 2021) https://journals.lww.com/academicmedicine/Fulltext/2021/05000/Using_Insights_From_Sports_Psychology_to_Improve.41.aspx

2. Applying sport psychology in health professions education: A systematic review of performance mental skills training (Sandars et al., 2021)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0142159X.2021.196643

3. Applying sport psychology to improve clinical performance (Church et al., 2017)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0142159X.2017.135953

4. What can medical educators learn from the Rio 2016 Olympic Games? (Church et al., 2017)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0142159X.2016.127040