Course Description
Academic Internal Medicine Week 2025 is a workshop-intensive meeting providing the keys for professional growth to help Internal Medicine faculty and staff at any career level be better administrators, faculty, teachers, mentors, and employees. This three-day event will include plenary sessions lead by knowledge experts and hands-on workshops that will address both community-based and university-based program perspectives. Attendees will come away with tools and skills they can implement immediately upon returning to their institution.
The 2025 DDA precourse is a comprehensive full-day course designed for department and division administrators, featuring dynamic networking opportunities and an insightful leadership panel with Q&A. Enhance your leadership skills with sessions on becoming a successful leader, understanding and integrating the Enneagram into team management, and leveraging AI in healthcare leadership. This course offers a unique blend of practical knowledge and interactive discussions to empower you as a forward-thinking leader in your organization.
The first 2025 GME precourse is designed for new and seasoned leaders interested in taking their skills to the next level. The highlights include sessions on leadership styles, strategic vision planning, and team development with renowned experts. It also includes focused sessions on effective time management, resource acquisition, and career progression. Attendees will acquire practical skills through breakout sessions on essential topics like budgeting, succession planning, and crucial conversations, empowering them to apply their new knowledge immediately.
The second 2025 GME precourse is an interactive precourse designed to provide fellowship program directors, associate program directors, and core faculty with a comprehensive one-day overview of key topics within fellowship training. Participants will develop a better understanding of how to manage and successfully run a fellowship program including but not limited to:
- building awareness for key events throughout the academic year
- recruitment and interviewing best practices
- utilizing the fellowship leadership team
- hear from ACGME leadership
- developing a process to assess faculty clinical teaching
- understanding pertinent wellness issues at the fellowship level
- identifying the unique aspects of working with international medical graduates
The 2025 UME precourse will help develop skills relevant to internal medicine clerkship directors, associate clerkship directors, ambulatory directors, site directors and clinician-educators involved in the medicine clerkship and/or subinternship. Experienced faculty will lead discussions about evaluation and grading, curriculum development, giving and receiving meaningful feedback, and hot topics related to clinical course directors.
The 2025 joint precourse with UME and GME is focused on faculty development. Faculty development is crucial for medical education. Medical educators juggle patient care, scholarship, and teaching multiple levels of learners. During this pre-course, distinguished educators will guide participants in a journey on how to structure a medical education-focused faculty development program in your institution.
Target Audience
This course is designed for internal medicine residency training program faculty (e.g., program directors, assistant/associate program directors, core faculty) and staff (e.g., program administrators and coordinators) as well as any other interested faculty and staff from a department of internal medicine.
Learning Objectives
At the completion of the conference, participants should be able to:
- Describe key concepts in academic medicine curriculum, Faculty Development, Practice of Medicine, Technology and Innovation, and Wellness.
- Apply core principles from Business of Medicine, Faculty Development, Didactic and Point of Care Curriculum, and Technology and Innovation, to their roles in UME/GME education.
- Analyze the impact of these areas on their professional practice and program management.
- Evaluate current practices within their programs and identify areas for improvement based on the knowledge gained.
- Identify core functions and roles of a program leader in UME and GME education.
- Explain the regulatory requirements relevant to UME and GME programs.
- Demonstrate practical leadership, management, and educational skills within their training programs.
- Implement effective strategies for managing and leading UME and GME programs based on the knowledge gained.
Program Schedule/Agenda
The full program schedule/agenda with speakers for the GME Precourse: Foundations of Leadership: Developing Core Skills can be found here.
The full program schedule/agenda with speakers for the GME Precourse: Managing a Fellowship Training Program can be found here.
The full program schedule/agenda with speakers for the UME Precourse: New Clinical Course Directors can be found here.
The full program schedule/agenda with speakers for the UME-GME Precourse: How to Design It So They Will Come: A Roadmap to Faculty Development Planning at Your Institution can be found here.
The full program schedule/agenda with speakers for Academic Internal Medicine Week 2025 can be found here.
Planning Committee
The planning committee list for Academic Internal Medicine Week 2025 can be found here.
Faculty/Presenter List
The faculty/presenter list for Academic Internal Medicine Week 2025 can be found here.
Disclosure Summary
It is the policy of University of California San Diego Continuing Medical Education to ensure that the content of accredited continuing education and related materials is accurate, balanced, objective, and scientifically justified. Education must be free of the influence or control of ineligible companies, and protect learners from promotion, marketing, and commercial bias. All persons in a position to control the content of accredited continuing education must disclose all financial relationships held with ineligible companies, prior to assuming a role in the activity. Those relationships deemed relevant to the education are mitigated prior to the activity through one of the following strategies, depending on the nature of relationship and the role of the person: 1)divesting the financial relationship, 2) altering the individual’s control over content, and/or 3) validating the planning decisions and/or content through independent peer review. All relevant financial relationships are mitigated prior to the activity and mitigation strategies and necessary steps for implementation are communicated to individuals prior to them assuming their role in the activity. Persons who refuse or fail to disclose are disqualified from participating in the activity. Activities are evaluated by participants and peer reviewers to determine if the content was free of bias and met acceptable scientific standards. This information is considered in future activity planning.
Accreditation Statement
The University of California San Diego School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Designation Statement
The University of California San Diego School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of:
AIMW25 : 10.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
UME Precourse: New Clinical Course Leaders: 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
GME Precourse: Managing a Fellowship Training Program: 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
GME Precourse: Foundations of Leadership: Developing Core Skills: 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
UME-GME Precourse: How to Design It So They Will Come: A Roadmap to Faculty Development Planning at Your Institution: 5.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Cultural & Linguistic Competency and Implicit Bias
Continuing medical education (CME) providers are required by state Assembly Bills 1195 and 241, and the standards created by the California Medical Association (CMA), to include components that address cultural and linguistic competency and implicit bias in CME activities. The planners and presenters of this activity has been asked to provide meaningful consideration of these standards in the selection and presentation of content. Additional information and resources are available on the UC San Diego CME website.
Commercial Support Acknowledgement
There is no commercial support for Academic Internal Medicine Week 2025.
Registration Information
The registration information for Academic Internal Medicine Week 2025 can be found here.
Cancellation Policy
The cancellation policy for Academic Internal Medicine Week 2025 can be found here.