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GU Cancers 2026 | An overview of the Health Care Professionals Patient Empowerment Program

Robert Rutledge, MD, FRCPC, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada, highlights the development of Health Care Professionals Patient Empowerment Program (PEP), a program aimed at supporting the well-being of healthcare professionals, who are at high risk of stress and burnout. This comprehensive program, which includes daily emails for six months covering topics such as aerobic strength training, dietary relaxation, and social support, will not only benefit clinicians but also enhance their understanding of the patient experience, allowing them to have more empathetic conversations with patients about promoting their own health. This interview took place at the 2026 ASCO GU Cancers Symposium in San Francisco, CA.

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So that’d be a program we’ve developed and it’s partly because we’re talking to clinicians on the day-to-day and they say, actually, I need this program for myself. So we know clinicians, healthcare professionals are at high risk of stress, burnout, all those types of issues. And I believe that creating a program for the healthcare professional, same daily emails for six months, same very comprehensive programming, you know, aerobic strength training, dietary relaxation, social support, connection, that comprehensive program, not only will it help the clinicians ultimately, and they can fit it into their lives, in their busy lives in a way that makes sense, but when you actually start to really promote your own health, you start to understand how difficult it is for the patients to promote their own health...

So that’d be a program we’ve developed and it’s partly because we’re talking to clinicians on the day-to-day and they say, actually, I need this program for myself. So we know clinicians, healthcare professionals are at high risk of stress, burnout, all those types of issues. And I believe that creating a program for the healthcare professional, same daily emails for six months, same very comprehensive programming, you know, aerobic strength training, dietary relaxation, social support, connection, that comprehensive program, not only will it help the clinicians ultimately, and they can fit it into their lives, in their busy lives in a way that makes sense, but when you actually start to really promote your own health, you start to understand how difficult it is for the patients to promote their own health. And so you get a real understanding of the patient experience. It allows you to open up to have that conversation, with patients that really want to know about what they can do to really make a difference in their lives. So we will be filming that likely in the winter of 2024 and then testing it on diverse populations in the same way.

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