Program Description: 
The Pediatric Hospital Medicine conference series consists of 5 individual components that are designed to help fill gaps and enhance knowledge and skills that are crucial to the practice of Pediatric Hospital Medicine. These individual components include:
 
  • Patient Care Discussion: This monthly series helps to fill gaps in provision of clinical care or medical knowledge through collaboration
  • Faculty Development: This monthly session helps hospitalists enhance their knowledge and skills in quality improvement, wellness, medical education, and professional development and scholarly activity. The goal is to help hospitalists thrive in the academic environment and work toward promotion while maintaining overall wellness.
  • Core Conference: This 3-4x monthly conference series covers crucial ABP content areas that require further reinforcement or are not covered frequently in clinical care. Specialists throughout the DOP help lead these sessions. The goal is to refresh key concepts that will be applicable to initial or recertification boards for Pediatric Hospital Medicine.
  • Journal Club: This monthly conference focuses on key aspects of evidence-based medicine, including critical appraisal with a focus on application to clinical care. This series covers selected ABP content specifications related to evidence-based medicine and practice improvement.
  • Pediatric Event Review and Active Learning (PEaRL): Diverging from a traditional “M&M” format, this quarterly conference series offers a psychologically safe atmosphere to discuss unexpected or adverse patient outcomes, with a focus on support, learning, and practice improvement. A case is discussed in detail focusing not only on medical aspects, but also on psychosocial aspects and personal impact on physicians and other providers.
 
Keywords: Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Evidence-Based Medicine, High Quality Care
Target audience: 
  • Physicians
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Physician Assistants
Learning objectives: 
Participants who engage in this educational intervention will be able to:
Patient Care Discussion
  • Compare and justify potential treatment methods for a disease process.
  • Outline and justify a diagnostic and management approach to a patient with an uncertain diagnosis.
  • Critically appraise and design novel approaches to the care of hospitalized patients.
Faculty Development
  • Analyze institutional quality improvement (QI) processes and critique current QI projects in relation to established QI frameworks.
  • Develop and implement a personal wellness plan incorporating evidence-based behaviors and activities.
  • Apply best practices in medical education to design and deliver a teaching encounter (precepting, lecturing, providing feedback, writing letters of recommendation).
  • Design a professional development plan that leverages new and existing opportunities to support scholarly productivity.
Core Conference
  • Explain and diagram the pathophysiology of a given condition and link key steps to therapeutic targets.
  • Develop and justify a diagnostic workup and treatment plan for a patient with a suspected or confirmed condition.
  • Anticipate and manage complications and long-term sequelae of a condition, including appropriate surveillance strategies.
Journal Club
  • Formulate a focused PICO(T) question related to a diagnostic or therapeutic intervention.
  • Analyze and evaluate the validity of a clinical study, including randomization methods, allocation concealment, and prognostic balance.
  • Interpret the results of a clinical study using evidence-based medicine concepts and statistical measures such as NNT, PPV, NPV, risk ratio, odds ratio, sensitivity, and specificity.
  • Judge whether and how the results of a study should be applied to patient care, considering population similarity, outcomes, and balance of benefit and harm.
  • Apply evidence-based medicine principles to assess current clinical practices and inform quality improvement initiatives and clinical practice guideline development.
Pediatric Event Review and Learning (PEaRL)
  • Define and explain key patient safety terms, including adverse event, near miss, and root cause analysis.
  • Analyze clinical and system processes to identify potential sources of error.
  • Recognize and categorize key types of medical errors.
  • Describe the different types of cognitive errors that contribute to medical mistakes.
  • Demonstrate effective teamwork skills in conducting error analysis and root cause analysis.
  • Construct and label an Ishikawa (fishbone) diagram to identify root causes of a medication error.
  • Analyze one’s own practice and local system to identify targets for improving processes and outcomes of care.
  • Develop a concrete action plan to prevent similar errors in the future.
  • Demonstrate collaborative teamwork skills using a shared learning model with peers to address patient safety events.
Faculty & credentials: 
Activity Director(s):
Brandon Palmer, MD
 
Planning Committee Members:
Brandon Palmer, MD
Lauren Titus,
Judy Borchardt, 
 

In accordance with the ACCME® Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, Standard 3, all persons in control of content must disclose any relevant financial relationships. It is the policy of the Medical College of Wisconsin to identify, mitigate and disclose the absence or presence of all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies held by the speakers/presenters, authors, planners, and other persons who may influence content of this accredited continuing education. The following in control of content had no relevant financial relationships to disclose. 

  • Brandon Palmer, MD
  • Lauren Titus,
  • Judy Borchardt, 

 

Contact

Name: 
Judy Borchardt
Email: 
[email protected]
Series date: 
01/01/2026 - 1:00am CST to 12/31/2026 - 11:59pm CST
ACCME Accreditation Statement:
The Medical College of Wisconsin is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
AMA Credit Designation Statement:
The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Hours of Participation for Allied Health Care Professionals:
The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this activity for up to 1.00 hours of participation for continuing education for allied health professionals.
 
MOC Part II:
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1 MOC points 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 the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
 
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn up to 1 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABP MOC credit.
 
Participation shared with ABP through PARS:
Individual participants’ information will be shared with ABP through the ACCME Program and Activity Reporting System (PARS).
 
 
Group description: 
Pediatrics
Series location: 
Children's Corporate Center
999 North 92nd Street
Room 510
Milwaukee, WI 53213
United States
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Sessions

There are no sessions in this series.