Academic half-day (AHD) is a common strategy for delivering didactic curriculum in a residency program. A protected half-day allows for attendance by the majority of residents and offers additional benefits of social interactions and wellness promotion. Over the years, we have evolved our AHD to inc…

This workshop will discuss why the AAIM endorsed job description for program administrators is necessary, how to use it to distinguish essential job duties that count towards the ACGME FTE guidelines, and how it can serve as an aid to create or modify job descriptions and create a career track withi…

This workshop will showcase and share our successes with turning all medical residents into leaders. Our residency created upwards of seven self-led resident leadership councils that help lead and guide our residency. These councils encompass domains such as mentorship, scholarly activity, wellness,…

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When creating a didactic teaching session, many medical educators start with a content area (often a disease process) and then build a lecture out of subtopics related to that content area. Following this traditional approach often leads to an uninventive didactic session that is unlikely to resonat…

Women remain chronically underrepresented in medicine despite evidence highlighting their strengths and benefits when it comes to patient care. Chief residents have the unique role of supporting female residents in professional development. The "confidence gap" is a frequently described and commonly…

The month of June is often full of excitement and anticipation as new interns join the residency program while current PGY-1s prepare for their new role as PGY-2 residents. This workshop aims to inspire chief residents and program directors to design a curriculum that focuses on the skills brand new…

Surveys are a popular methodology in medical education and are used to understand the nature of educational problems, explore the perspectives of learners, and assess their performance, knowledge, attitudes and well-being. However, the usefulness of data collected from surveys is often limited to th…

The pandemic increased the number of residents who are sick and thus cannot work, which has stressed our backup systems and compromised resident education and patient continuity. In April 2020, our three-site university residency program had to rapidly switch from our old backup system to a newer sy…

Global pandemic conditions forced rapid adjustments to medical education across training from pre-clinical coursework through residency didactics and clinical case conferences. Many curricular adaptations occurred on short notice and with limited preparation or skill development for those deliverin…

Balancing attending supervision with resident autonomy is intended to ensure patient safety while allowing trainees to gain graduated independence and demonstrate competency upon completion of residency. Factors such as ACGME duty hour restrictions and patient safety initiatives have increased atten…

The medical education community recently created many curricular elements in DEI to meet the needs of trainees, yet a paucity of assessments continues to plague DEI education. Tasked with the crucial next step in instruction, educators must now create effective assessment strategies for measuring t…

ACGME mandates training programs and sponsoring institutions provide efforts to enhance meaning in the experience of being a physician and provide programs to encourage optimal resident and faculty well-being.

In this workshop, we will provide practical improvement tools to promote well-bein…

There is much focus on improving physician, advanced practice provider, and nursing burnout and well-being in health care. The same concerns can impact administrators, yet who is worried about the administrators? This workshop worries about the administrators in medicine!

The workshop will e…

Discriminatory patient encounters are prevalent across all medical specialties and contribute to trainee burnout, avoidance of patients, and poor work satisfaction. Hospitals have policies in place to protect employees from workplace discrimination by peers, but these policies often do not apply to…

Parental leave can be stressful for programs and trainees. Our workshop aims to take the confusion and stress out of resident parental leave by 1) clarifying the ABIM and ACGME leave policies, 2) demonstrating how parental leave options can be consolidated into a transparent process, and 3) highligh…

Residency itself is challenging, and when residents also have major life events occur during training, they may feel completely overwhelmed. Chief residents are frequently the first point of contact for residents who are experiencing major life changes. For a chief resident who recently was or is cu…

Burn-out is a real problem, but most people do not know the factors that lead to burn-out nor do they recognize the early stages of burn-out so they can make adjustments before they have created a life pattern. We will look at the difference between a work addiction (workaholism) and burn-out, how…

Every conversation with a patient, whether in the hospital room, on the phone, in the hallway, or with a family member is an opportunity to share crucial information. The key factor for relaying information accurately and to achieve shared decision making is to use patient centered language and non-…

Email is an integral part of any professional organization. When used well, emails can be a powerful tool for data organization, communication, and time management. Chief residents receive and send multiple emails daily. Emails can be used as a means of communication with program leadership, hospit…