Quality Symposium: A Modern Look at Patient Safety in Healthcare

Pittsburgh, PA US
March 5, 2025

The quality symposium will focus on a modern look at patient safety initiatives and how this impacts patient care. Enhanced knowledge will be provided to healthcare providers on implications of social media use in healthcare and legal implications, using language effectively in the healthcare setting,  early recognition of human trafficking and facilitating resources to victims.

Target Audience

Physicians, Advanced Practice Providers, Nurses, Pharmacists, and additional healthcare professionals. 

Learning Objectives

The learner will be able to describe the history of the patient safety quality symposium and its impact on patient outcomes

The learner will be able to analyze how social media influencing can be beneficial and detracting from health and health care 

The learner will be able to describe ways to support healthcare teams when social media is used as a form of delivering negative feedback regarding care delivered/specific caregivers

The learner will be able to analyze use of current and near term AI tools relevant to participants' work roles in healthcare

The learner will be able to describe the key tenets of how to effectively use language interpretation relevant to work roles in healthcare

The learner will be able to describe tactics that health care team members can use to ensure colleagues get appropriate care

The learner will be able to describe tactics that health care team members can use to avoid boundary violations on the part or both health care team members and colleague-patient 

The learner will be able to describe signs of human trafficking that may present in the inpatient and outpatient setting 

The learner will be able to describe next steps when signs of human trafficking are recognized 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 5.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 5.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 5.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
01/01/2025
Course expires: 
03/05/2025
Event starts: 
03/05/2025 - 7:00am EST
Event ends: 
03/05/2025 - 12:00pm EST
UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital
300 Halket St
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
United States

Dennis English MD, 

Jacob Larkin MD

Jessica Berger MD

Reuben Daniel 

Suresh Mulukutia

Chaton Turner Esq.

Elizabeth Hughes

Joy Gero

Annalisa Gibbs RN 

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the University of Pittsburgh and [Insert name of Joint Sponsor]. The University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

The University of Pittsburgh designates this [replace with applicable format: live, enduring or blended] activity for a maximum of 5  AMA PRA Category 1 Credit[s]™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.  

This activity has been designated as and meets the Pennsylvania licensure requirement for Patient Safety-Risk Management Credit. It is the responsibility of the learner to maintain the educational presentation or conference agenda as evidence, if needed for audit purposes.

The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education activity is 5 contact hours.

This knowledge-based activity provides __ contact hours of continuing pharmacy education credit.

Available Credit

  • 5.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 5.00 ANCC
    UPMC Provider Unit is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation
  • 5.00 Attendance
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