The primary focus of the Primary Care Training Enhancement (PCTE) program is to train primary care clinicians to lead health care transformation and enhance community-based teaching to promote better primary care practice within underserved urban areas. The Complex Care Management Rounds (CCMR) is an interdisciplinary case review process for primary care providers who share complex patients. The purposes of the CCMR are to expose community-based primary care providers to integrated, longitud...

OBGYN Quality Forum is a recurrent event that provides an opportunity for ongoing review of our inpatient clinical practices. During these sessions we review practice patterns and we engage in interdisciplinary discussion surrounding selected cases, using quality improvement tools, to improve communication among health care providers and staff. Through these discussions we create and promote initiatives to improve patient safety, reduce medical errors, and encourage outstanding communication a...

The overall goal of the conference is to improve communication between the interprofessional team in regards to patient care and to improve medical knowledge related to the etiology, diagnosis, radiologic and pathologic findings, genetic evaluation and multidisciplinary management of colorectal malignancies. A secondary goal is to improve adherence of the providers and the group to national practice guidelines.

The goal of this series is to provide continuing education to the medical staff and other members of the healthcare team at Holy Redeemer Hospital regarding a variety of relevant and timely topics in medicine. This activity is intended to provide a concise and high-impact review of a particular topic to maximize learning. Topics cover the breadth of clinical medicine.

In this CME Activity, participants including community and academically based primary care providers in multiple disciplines will attend bi-monthly didactic sessions. These sessions will bring content experts from many aspects of the University including Penn Medicine and CHOP to address relevant and contemporary issues in delivering care to medically underserved patient populations. Participants will utilize an online program webpage for reference materials and pre-session discussion boards. Pa...

There are a variety of challenges and limitations in the treatments available for metastatic breast cancer. Physicians are continually searching for new treatments that can extend life, and clinical trials often are the best way to access these in the metastatic setting. Moreover, most metastatic breast cancer is managed in the community, yet Penn Medicine's clinical trials are primarily centered at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, Abramson Cancer Center; this makes it challenging to c...

Weekly Grand Rounds for the PAH OBGYN Department

An AP provider or group of providers will present a clinical case and work with the Evidence-Based Medicine (EBM) facilitator to delineate the clinical question arising from the case, search the literature to identify an answer, appraise the evidence identified, and apply the evidence to the case at hand. They will then present the case during a session along with the process they used to address the case, including a review of the evidence addressing the clinical questions informed by the case...

The Genitourinary Malignancies CME series is a multi-disciplinary case conference of physicians, nurses, research coordinators, and team managers. The primary goal of this series is to provide ongoing educational and clinical trial updates to ensure that we are all current with best practices in Genitourinary cancers. This is a dedicated touchpoint for brainstorming, identifying challenges to improve research implementation and patient care, review of innovative treatments, and discussing resear...

A gathering of any Penn Medicine staff members to review various media covering topics including (but not exclusively) implicit bias, structural racism, and less known historical events involving persons of color.