UPMC GME Connect

April 4, 2025

Learning Objectives

After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:
1. Articulate the general approach to assessing and remediating struggling learners (SL), including the importance of early identification and the barriers that may impede this process.
2. Identify and analyze the underlying issues that contribute to clinical performance struggles in SLs, enabling educators and administrators to develop targeted intervention strategies.
3. Explore the components of a successful remediation program, including the development of practical assessment tools, sample remediation plans, and policies to support Sls within a programmatic framework.
4. Differentiate between misconduct concerns and developmental issues and learn effective approaches to handling each situation while maintaining a supportive and constructive learning environment.
5. Acquire strategies and techniques for remediating professionalism, communication, clinical reasoning, and organization/efficiency skills in Sls, ensuring their growth and improvement in these essential areas of medical education.

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 3.25 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.
  • 3.25 Attendance
Course opens: 
12/20/2024
Course expires: 
06/30/2025
Event starts: 
04/04/2025 - 12:00pm EDT
Event ends: 
04/04/2025 - 4:00pm EDT
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SCHEDULE

12:30-1:15pm Welcome & UPMC GME Updates
Gregory Bump, MD Designated Institutional Officer

1:15-1:20pm BREAK  

1:20-2:20pm Plenary Speaker:  Remediation of Professionalism
Karen Warburton, MD, FASN, FACP
Director of the Clinic Wellness Program and Director of Graduate Medical Education Advancement

2:20-2:30pm

BREAK  2:30-3:00pm How GME Finances Impact you & your Program
Gregory Bump, MD Designated Institutional Officer
Neil Karls, MBA Chief Financial Officer

3:00-4:00pm Virtual GME Abstract Competition  

4:00pm Closing Remarks & Frank J. Kroboth Award Presentation
Gregory Bump, MD Designated Institutional Officer 

Virtual Microsoft Teams
Allison Park, PA
United States

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. 


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.


Physician (CME)
The University of Pittsburgh designates this  live activity for a maximum of 3.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit[s]™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other Healthcare Professionals: 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

  • 3.25 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.
  • 3.25 Attendance
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