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6/13/2025 - Medical Grand Rounds: A Career in Academic Medicine: Lessons Learned for Success

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INTRODUCTION

Credit Hours: CME 1.25

Target Audience:

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

Educational Objectives:

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

    • Describe diverse career pathways within academic medicine and evaluate their alignment with personal goals.
    • Identify potential mentors and formulate strategies for initiating and sustaining effective mentoring relationships.
    • Analyze the role of protected time in career development and justify its importance in academic progression.
    • Develop and implement strategies to recognize, prevent, and manage professional burnout.

Suggested Additional Reading & Joint Accreditation Statement - Note: This Accreditation Statement Supersedes All Other Statements:

Suggested Additional Reading:

  1. Mentorship in academic medicine: truth is in the eye of the beholder. Nature Reviews Endocrinology volume 19, pages373-374 (2023) 
  2. Association of Weekly Protected Nonclinical Time With Resident Physician Burnout and 
  3. Well-being.JAMA Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2020;146(2):168-175 
  4. Burnout in Academic Physicians. Perm J. 2023 Jun 13;27(2):142-149. 


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), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.


Physician (CME)

The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.Each physician should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


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:
David S. Wilkes, MD — Dean Emeritus, James Carroll Flippin Professor of Medical Science (Emeritus), University of Virginia School of Medicine
No other 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.