Credit Hours: CME 1.00

Target Audience:

Faculty, residents, fellows, and community physicians in General Internal Medicine and subspecialties.

Gender Difference in Burnout and Fulfillment: Can Leadership Close the Gap? - Rachel Hannum, MD
The Effect of Immunosuppression During Anti-PD-1 Treatment for Stage III Melanoma - Andrew Knight, MD
Plasma Levels of Soluble Suppression of Tumorigenicity (sST2) Are Associated with Markers of Injury, Severity of Illness, and Outcomes in Mechanically Ventilated Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure - Amy Labar, MD
Guideline-directed medical therapy in primary prevention defibrillator recipients and their mortality risk - Gautam Rangavajla, MD
Demographic Differences in Palliative Care Contact Among Patients with Heart Failure - Bradley Very, MD

Educational Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

Describe the relationship between leadership qualities and the association between gender and burnout.
Describe the relationship between leadership quality and the association between gender and professional fulfillment.
Describe burnout and why it matters not just to the individual but to the healthcare system.
Describe moderation and how it differs from attenuation.
Improve knowledge regarding the impact of immunosuppression for patients being treated with immunotherapy
Improve understanding of immune-related adverse events for patients with melanoma being treated with immunotherapy
Improve understanding of melanoma immunotherapy treatment options
Learn about sST2’s role in the lung compartment
Compare sST2 in the lung compartment to the blood compartment
Identify stimuli of sST2
Follow current recommended guidelines for primary prevention ICD implantation in HFrEF patients
Improve nuanced clinical decision making by implementing findings from landmark ICD RCTs<
Implement a targeted approach to future patient-level recommendations for primary prevention ICD implantation
Discuss current practices and incorporation of palliative care in heart failure.
Describe the benefits of early integration of palliative care in patients with heart failure.
Discuss disparities in end-of-life care and cardiac care.
Discuss the relationship between specific demographic variables and palliative care contact.

Abstract

Five of our outstanding internal medicine residents will present their research spanning a wide range of topics within the subspecialties of internal medicine.

Joint Accreditation Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements:

Joint Accreditation Statement:

In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and 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 Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit[s]™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. This educational activity is approved for 1.0 contact hours.

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.

Authors:

Amy Labar, MD — PGY 2 Resident - Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
No planners, 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 to disclose.

Andrew Knight, MD — PGY 3 Resident - Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
No planners, 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 to disclose.

Bradley Very, MD — PGY 2 Resident - Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
No planners, 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 to disclose.

Gautam Rangavajla, MD — PGY 3 Resident - Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
No planners, 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 to disclose.

Rachel Hannum, MD — PGY 3 Resident - Internal Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
No planners, 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 to disclose.

No other 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.

This activity is approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

The University of Pittsburgh is an affirmative action, equal opportunity institution.