3/17/2026 - Medical Grand Rounds: Is Medicine Still A Profession? Implications for Professional Identities, Identity Struggle, and Burnout in Medicine

This activity explores advanced teaching strategies for clinical education, including problem‑based learning and the thoughtful integration of emerging tools such as artificial intelligence to enhance learner engagement and clinical reasoning. It also addresses clinician wellness by examining the core dimensions of burnout and evidence‑based approaches to recognizing, mitigating, and managing burnout to support sustained professional effectiveness and well‑being.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Describe what it means to be a professional and have a professional identity.
  • Identify the different logics that govern a physician’s work.
  • Discuss identity struggle and its relationship with burnout

 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.00 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.
  • 1.00 Attendance
Course opens: 
03/17/2026
Course expires: 
03/17/2029

Adam Sawatsky, MD, MS — Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine

Disclosures:

No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Disclosures:

No members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships with any companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.

Accreditation Statement

Jointly Accredited Provider Mark

In support of improving patient care, 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 enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit[s]™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.

Available Credit

  • 1.00 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.
  • 1.00 Attendance
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