Enhancing Teaching Skills for Medical Educators (Online): Confronting Microaggressions on the Wards and in Clinic_Skills Educators Can Use to Support Trainees

“Confronting Microaggressions on the Wards and in Clinic: Skills Educators Can Use to Support Trainees”is a learning module created for medical educators as part of the “Enhancing Teaching Skills Lunchtime Webinar Series.”  The goal of this series is to enhance core teaching and scholarship skills for medical educators of both medical students and residents throughout the UPMC system.  The webinar series occurs live through Microsoft Teams from 12:00-1:00PM every other month during the academic year. If you would like to be invited to participate in the live webinar, please email Maggie Benson at bensonmk@upmc.edu.

Target Audience

Medical educators of both medical students and residents. 

Learning Objectives

  • Discuss the scope of discrimination/harassment which can occur in medical education
  • Frame the cultural backdrop that influences these behaviors
  • Define microaggressions and discuss the impact
  • Practice communication skills to respond to microaggressions
     
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.
  • 0.75 Attendance
Course opens: 
07/01/2022
Course expires: 
12/31/2024
Part of: 
Enhancing Teaching Skills for Medical Educators Series

Course Director:
Maggie Benson, MD MS
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
UPMC Hamot

Presenters:
William Lamb, DO, Clinical Associate Professor and Chair of the Osteopathic Program Oversight Committee, UPMC
Eloho Ufomata, MD MS FACP, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Advisory Dean, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
 

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 entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients to disclose.

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 this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the 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.
  • 0.75 Attendance
Please login or register to take this course.