Hey, uOttawa medical students! Are you looking to improve your resilience as we head into a new year?

ResIG is excited to offer you the opportunity to practice your resilience skills while helping others to do the same. This is your chance to work on yourself, and to become a better medical student, future doctor, and person (we think you're already pretty great though!).

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What is the Accountability Program?
Goal-setting is the cornerstone of self-improvement and a valuable resource in the resiliency tool-kit. However, to achieve a goal is no small feat. Indeed, a goal that is worth achieving is likely to have many barriers. We tell ourselves the reasons why we CAN'T achieve the goal, and let it slip away. All too often, we are our own worst enemy. But what if we had an outside voice to counter the inner-critic? What if we had someone to guide us when we veered off course? Someone who can offer us solutions and help us become the person our patients deserve?

By setting goals you will encounter challenges. Learning to overcome those challenges is like training to enhance your resilience. The Accountability Program is here to serve as your personal training ground to practice overcoming challenges.

The purpose of this Accountability Program is to encourage you to set goals and work on yourself in a safe and warm community WHILE AT THE SAME TIME helping someone else overcome their challenges and achieve their goals.

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How does the Accountability Program work?
Interested students are asked to fill out this form by the deadline. Once the deadline has passed, we will RANDOMLY assign you to one other accountability partner (unless a preference is indicated below). Three Accountability Pairs will be grouped together under the guidance of a clerk, who is there to serve as the group leader, create the Facebook chat, and to help lead group discussions.

We will be having two workshops for this program. Our first workshop will be on January 6th from 1:30-3pm and will be on goal setting (given by Dr. Haykal) and ResIG execs will provide further detail about the Program. Our second workshop will be two weeks from then and we will discuss expectations and breakout into small group sessions to create and share our own personal goals. We will encourage that every month or so small groups meet and that accountability partners regularly check-in on one another. Every month we will distribute a form allowing you to record CV hours (up to 3 hours).

Just a reminder, for this program to work we need your active involvement, we need you to take initiative at times, and provide us with feedback. The time-commitment is flexible and is student-dependent; you can participate as much as you wish.

Thanks so much and looking forward to seeing you at our workshops!!!