Medical Center Hour and CCI Learning Series - Speaking Up About Meaningful Work

Desired outcomes for this session:

By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

1. Recognize the paradox of meaningful work by identifying its benefits—such as engagement and well-being—and its risks, including over-identification, exploitation, and burnout.
2. Initiate conversations about the pathways to meaningful work, helping individuals and teams articulate and navigate their experiences with greater awareness and intention.
3. Implement evidence-based strategies to foster sustainable, ethical, and supportive approaches to meaningful work within their organizations.

UVA Health Medical Center Hour

Course Description: This series will address High-Level trends and expectations in accreditation in graduate medical education in internal medicine. It will discuss Gaps in care reflected in medical center quality data, priorities, and outcomes as well as trends and changes in patient care practice seen at UVA. Finally, we will cover topics from the clinical practice of Endocrinology, Nephrology and General Medicine that require additional representation due to the prevalence of education in other conference settings on other specialty areas in Internal Medicine.

Target Audience: Physicians, Residents

Desired Outcomes:  

At the conclusion of this activity, learners will be able to:

• Incorporate new guidelines, techniques, and recent research into clinical practice based on the concepts shared in this series.
• Discuss current clinical cases in the context of evidence-based medicine to identify appropriate screenings and treatments for patients.
• Improve healthcare outcomes by regularly and frequently engaging the healthcare team in up-to-date and evidence-based education.
• Promote the maintenance, improvement, and broadening of knowledge and skills throughout your professional life through attendance at this regularly scheduled series.
• Incorporate systems-based and practice-based processes to improve patient safety and quality in healthcare.
• Communicate effectively with clinical colleagues by incorporating interprofessional discussion techniques and patient-centered strategies, as appropriate.
• Analyze published outcome results and apply to current
   

Accreditation & Designation Statements: 

In support of improving patient care, UVA Health Continuing Education 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.

UVA Health Continuing Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit.^TM  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1 MOC point in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for granting ABIM MOC credit. 

UVA Health Continuing Education awards 1.0 contact hours to a nurse who participates in this educational activity and completes the post-activity evaluation.

UVA Health Continuing Education awards 1 hour of participation (consistent with the designated number of AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM  or ANCC contact hours) to a participant who successfully completes this educational activity. UVA Health Continuing Education maintains a record of participation for six (6) years.

Full Disclosure Policy Affecting CME Activities:

As a joint accredited provider, UVA Health Continuing Education requires attested and signed global disclosure of the existence of all financial interests or relationships with commercial interest from any individual in a position to control the content of a CME activity sponsored by OCME. 

No one in a position to control the content of this educational activity has disclosed a relevant financial interest or relationship with any commercial interest.

Disclosure of faculty financial affiliations 

UVA Health Continuing Education as a Joint Accreditation Provider adheres to the ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, released in December 2020, as well as Commonwealth of Virginia statutes, University of Virginia policies and procedures, and associated federal and private regulations and guidelines. As the accredited provider for this CE/IPCE activity, we are responsible for ensuring that healthcare professionals have access to professional development activities that are based on best practices and scientific integrity that ultimately supports the care of patients and the public. 

All individuals involved in the development and delivery of content for an accredited CE/IPCE activity are expected to disclose relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies occurring within the past 24 months (such as grants or research support, employee, consultant, stock holder, member of speaker’s bureau, etc.).  UVA Health Continuing Education employs appropriate mechanisms to resolve potential conflicts of interest and ensure the educational design reflects content validity, scientific rigor and balance for participants.  Questions about specific strategies can be directed to the UVA Health Continuing Education at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia. 

The faculty, staff and planning committee engaged in the development of this CE/IPCE activity in UVA Health Continuing Education have no financial affiliations to disclose.

Disclosure of discussion of non-FDA approved uses for pharmaceutical products and/or medical devices 

As a Joint Accreditation provider, UVA Health Continuing Education requires that all faculty presenters identify and disclose any off-label or experimental uses for pharmaceutical and medical device products. It is recommended that each clinician fully review all the available data on new products or procedures prior to clinical use.

 

Andrew Soren is the Founder and CEO of Eudaimonic by Design, a global network of facilitators, coaches and advisors who share a passion for well-being and believe organizations must be designed to enable it. Together they harness the best of scholarship and years of experience to advise organizations and design systems that unlock potential and bring out the best in people.

For the past 25 years, Andrew has worked with some of the most recognized brands, non-profits and public sector teams to co-create values-based cultures, develop positive leadership, and design systems that empower people to be their best. He regularly writes and speaks about how to apply the science of wellbeing at work. His most recent article, Meaningful Work, Well-Being, and Health: Enacting a Eudaimonic Vision, was just published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Since 2013, Andrew has been part of the instructional team at the University of Pennsylvania’s internationally renowned Master of Applied Positive Psychology program. He is a member of the board for the International Positive Psychology Association and was Chair of its 8th World Congress on Positive Psychology held in Vancouver, Canada in July 2023. 

He was a senior advisor in Governance, Culture and Leadership at LRN and he spent 13 years at BMO Financial Group, one of Canada’s largest banks, where he led strategy in both marketing and human resources, focusing on brand revitalization, leadership development and the co-creation of high performance culture.  

Andrew is an ICF certified coach through the Co-Active Training Institute (formerly the Coaches Training Institute). He is based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.