Kelee® Medicine Workshop - The Importance of Being Centered for Self-Care and Reducing Burnout

Instructions for Completing the Course

This online course on Kelee Meditation includes recordings from the 2023 Kelee® Medicine Workshop and was designed for healthcare providers interested in reducing burnout, improving mental strength and self-compassion, and improving patient care and patient experience. Dr. Daniel Lee, Dr. Amy M. Sitapati, and our faculty will guide and inform participants on the practice of Kelee meditation which include discussion on the anatomy of the Kelee, detachment from compartments, the difference between self-compassion and empathy, and tips and strategies on incorporating Kelee meditation in your life. Through the practice of Kelee meditation, healthcare providers will build self-compassion, mental strength, and detachment to reduce burnout, improve provider stillness of mind and patient experience of health.

Statement of Need
The goal of this online course is to introduce Kelee Medicine to healthcare clinicians. The current practice of medicine is highly stressful, anxiety-inducing, often leading to depression and burnout. By learning Kelee meditation through the proposed workshop, participants can build new skills of doctoring, which facilitates patient-centered care, improves patient and physician satisfaction, and reduces clinician burnout. Clinicians and students who currently practice Kelee meditation have reported being less affected by the challenges that they confront on a daily basis. The development of these detachment skills, which are a documented outcome of the Kelee meditation practice, can result in improved job focus, patient interactions, and job satisfaction.

1. Describe detachment from compartments with understanding the application to medicine and patient care
2. Develop self-understanding of the importance of being centered via one-pointed stillness of mind to reduce work place burnout
3. Apply Kelee meditation to improve patient experience
4. Distinguish the difference between self-compassion and empathy
5. Describe the Anatomy of the Mind from an understanding of the Kelee
6. Describe the Basic Principles of the Kelee
7. Practice Kelee meditation

AAPA: AAPA accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by ACCME or a recognized state medical society. Physician assistants may receive a maximum of 4.00 hours of Category 1 credit for completing this program.

Nurses: For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME. For the purpose of relicensure, the California Board of Registered Nursing accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (report up to 4.00 hours of credit and list "CME Category 1" as the provider number).

Pharmacists: The California Board of Pharmacy accepts as continuing education for pharmacists coursework which meets the standard of relevance to pharmacy practice and is accepted as continuing education by the Medical Board of California.

Psychologists: The California Board of Psychology recognizes and accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ for license renewal. Psychologists outside of California should check with their state and local boards to ensure that ACCME accredited activities are acceptable for renewal.

Surgeons: Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME requirement of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.

Method of Participation
This 4-hour online course is divided into 3 modules that are delivered via a streaming platform on your viewing device.  The registration fee (includes CME certificate) for this course is $50 and accessible until it expires in 2027. 

Cultural & Linguistic Competency and Implicit Bias: Continuing medical education (CME) providers are required by state Assembly Bills 1195 and 241, and the standards created by the California Medical Association (CMA), to include components that address cultural and linguistic competency and implicit bias in CME activities. The planners and presenters of this activity has been asked to provide meaningful consideration of these standards in the selection and presentation of content.  Additional information and resources are available on the UC San Diego CME website. 

Recommended Resources
1)Kelee Meditation App. Available for iPhones on the Apple Store and Android phones on Google Play. (Note: May not be currently available for newer Android phones).
2)Rathbun, RW. A Daily Prescription for Natural Health: A Journal for Kelee Meditation Students. Oceanside: Kelee Foundation, 2017. (to track progress)
3)Rathbun, RW. Troubleshooting the Mind, Understanding the Basic Principles of the Kelee. Oceanside: Quiescence Publishing, 2010.
4)Lee, D and Rathbun, RW. The Kelee Meditation Medical Study: Troubleshooting the Mind through Kelee Meditation: A Distinctive and Effective Therapeutic Intervention for Stress, Anxiety, and Depression. Oceanside: Kelee Foundation, 2013.
5)Sitapati, Amy. A Physician’s Guide to the Study of the Non-Linear Mind - Kelee Medicine: Learning to Heal with Compassion. Oceanside: Kelee Foundation, 2019.
6)Rathbun, RW. The Essence of Empathy: An In-Depth View of Empathy and Compassion. Oceanside: Quiescence Publishing, 2021.

All persons in a position to control the content of accredited education must disclose all financial relationships held with ineligible companies, prior to assuming their role in the accredited activity. Those relationships deemed relevant to the education, are mitigated prior to the activity.

CME staff, meeting planners, peer reviewers, editorial staff, and CME committee reviewers, do not have any relevant financial relationships with ACCME-defined ineligible companies.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

The UC San Diego School of Medicine adheres to the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education.