Professional Development - Make Them an Offer They Can't Refuse

As members of the Nuvance Health Learning Institute's Program Manager Development Committee for the last 2 years, we have spearheaded the professional development of the network's 7 hospital system consisting of 25 residency and fellowship program managers. In this workshop, we will discuss the importance of professional development for program managers including retention and job satisfaction. We will show the benefits of professional development to both the program managers as well as to leadership. We will share how to create a self-assessment survey for program managers in order to develop a didactic calendar. We will share, as example, our network's weekly development calendar. We will discuss two different ways of creating a mentorship program with lessons learned from our initial creation of our program. Finally, we will share various ways of incentivizing program managers to pursue professional development activities which are outside the realm of their daily job duties.