Your Life After Retirement
Although financial planning and practice retirement planning are very important to a successful retirement, there is still another essential and often overlooked aspect to consider to maximize retirement success: how to develop a meaningful and rewarding life after medicine.
The NBMS offers a workshop entitled “Your Life after Retirement” that addresses the “softer side” of retirement with the objective to help participants:
- Identify common obstacles to a successful retirement;
- develop plans for a meaningful life with a renewed identity;
- develop structures to avoid mental, physical, and social stagnation; and
- organize their days in a leisurely fashion.
If you are interested in taking the Your Life After Retirement course, please complete the waitlist form. Once we have enough participants to host the course, we will contact you with dates and locations.
Presenter Profile
The workshop was developed by Dr. Philippe Erhard CCFP, MCFP, Dip Sport Medicine. As a recently retired Family physician and Sport Medicine Physician, Dr. Erhard is passionate about physician wellness. He was involved in the Physician Wellness Committee of Doctors Manitoba as a vice-chair and chair and developed several workshops on physician wellness. Following his own retirement, he trained as a retirement coach and has been presenting the workshop “Your Life after Retirement” for the past year through Doctors Manitoba.
Workshop Details
Dr. Erhard’s workshop entitled “Your Life after Retirement” is a 4-hour interactive session that works best in groups of 15 participants and, although it is more suited to being in-person, it can be offered through a virtual platform such as Zoom. The session is not conducive to being recorded and offered online later as many participants are very open and vulnerable in the sessions and confidentiality needs to be respected. The workshop is available in both English and French.
NBMS Wellness
Sometimes, only another physician can truly understand what you are going through. The NBMS Wellness program has created initiatives, like the NBMS Peer Support Program, which was created to connect New Brunswick physicians seeking support with trained volunteer physicians. Find support from physicians who have “been there” and understand the specific challenges where life and medical practice intersect. Program participation and all information disclosed will remain completely confidential, just as you ensure the privacy of your own patients’ medical information.
To learn more about the NBMS Peer Support Program, please click here.
Government Programs
The Government of New Brunswick has several programs for retiring physicians to consider. To find out more information or eligibility on these programs, please consult with the Health Workforce Branch at the Department of Health or your local Medical Office Staff.
