2025 Annual Conference Advance Program Download the 2025 Advance Program
PRE-CONFERENCE: FLIGHT ACADEMY Richard Winters, MD Learn More APCCMPD ANNUAL CONFERENCE Stacey B. Lee, JD Learn More Adam Rodman, MD, MPH Learn More
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FLIGHT Academy: Fellowship and GME Leadership Training Learn More As part of your FLIGHT registration, the following events will be included:
The FLIGHT Academy Education Leadership Certificate program is designed to help current and aspiring fellowship and graduate medical education leaders enhance their leadership capabilities, knowledge, and skills. The certification program provides participants with practical frameworks and approaches to leadership to improve their effectiveness, advance their careers, and make a lasting difference in the lives of those they lead. In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by University of Nebraska Medical Center and Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors. University of Nebraska Medical Center 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 Nebraska Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum of TBD AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ and TBD Maintenance of Certification points. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Breakout Sessions * Learn More Town Hall Meetings ** Learn More
Thursday, March 13, 2025 / 10:45 AM - 5:00 PM (Eastern) Learn More
Upon completion of this conference, participants should be better able to: 1. Utilize generative AI to efficiently create content and assessments by applying strategies for engineering prompts that maximize useful outputs from large language models. 2. Understand the latest trends and updates in accreditation for internal medicine pulmonary (PUD), critical care (CCM) and pulmonary critical care medicine (PCCM) from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). 3. Utilize institutional resources to overcome barriers in developing a Health Systems Science curriculum, implement strategies for creating and teaching engaging content, and apply tools to evaluate and enhance the quality of fellow mortality and morbidity conferences. 4. Identify signs of poor mental health in learners, implement strategies to support fellows in navigating these issues, and determine when and how to effectively address mental health concerns with other fellows and faculty within the program. 5. Compare and contrast various immersive learning technologies, describe their strengths and limitations for PCCM training, explore their potential to transform existing learning paradigms for fellowship trainees, and discuss the challenges and potential solutions related to their implementation. 6. Identify ACGME SDOH/DEI milestones and the current lack of formative assessment in many programs, facilitate discussions with program leaders to brainstorm pathways for integrating these milestones into formative evaluations, and compile their results into a recommendation statement for embedding health equity milestones into fellow evaluations. 7. Establish the importance of overcoming barriers to enhance faculty skills for working with trainees, plan and design effective professional development sessions and examine barriers to professional development while proposing improvements for its delivery. 8. Review methods and conclusions from key 2024 publications on procedural training, simulation, communication and trainee assessment, and discuss potential areas for further study and collaboration within the APCCMPD community and beyond. 9. Prepare for and negotiate career advancement opportunities in medical education leadership by identifying key strategies for career growth, developing effective negotiation techniques, and applying these skills to advance their professional goals. 10. Understand the current state of climate and planetary health in medical education, particularly in pulmonary and critical care, identify the impact of air pollution on lung health, and commit to reducing the climate footprint of their clinical practice.
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by University of Nebraska Medical Center and Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors. University of Nebraska Medical Center 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 Nebraska Medical Center designates this live activity for a maximum of TBD AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ and TBD Maintenance of Certification points. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
As a jointly accredited provider, the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) must ensure balance, objectivity, independence, and scientific rigor in its educational activities. Faculty are encouraged to provide a balanced view of therapeutic options by utilizing either generic names or the trade names of several to ensure impartiality. All speakers, planning committee members and others in a position to control continuing education content participating in a UNMC-accredited activity are required to disclose relationships with commercial interests. A commercial interest is any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services consumed by, or used on, patients. Disclosure of these commitments and/or relationships is included in these activity materials so that participants may formulate their own judgments in interpreting its content and evaluating its recommendations. This activity may include presentations in which faculty may discuss off-label and/or investigational use of pharmaceuticals or instruments not yet FDA-approved. Participants should note that the use of products outside currently FDA-approved labeling should be considered experimental and are advised to consult current prescribing information for FDA-approved indications. All materials are included with the permission of the authors. The opinions expressed are those of the authors and are not to be construed as those of the UNMC.
As part of your conference registration, the APCCMPD will provide you with the following meals:
Attendees who need to cancel their registration must do so by emailing [email protected].
James Frank, MD, MS Joyce Reitzner, MBA, MIPH Brenda Ram, CMP, CHCP |