Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. Hypertension and diabetes are among the foremost risk factors for the development of cardiovascular diseases, including stroke, peripheral artery disease, and heart attack. Several advances have been made in recent years to improve our ability to prevent the development and progression of cardiovascular disease. This program will provide an overview of recent advances that target the underlying pathophysiology of cardiova...

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...

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...

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.

PPMC Emergency Medicine simulations are hands on technical skills designed for increase patient safety and quality of care.

M&M Conferences will review timeline of event (allograft loss, complications, deaths, return to OR, and unanticipated readmissions), identify area where breakdown occurred, identify root cause, review related literature if applicable, identify action items to prevent similar events in future.

The Penn Transplant Institute Kidney / Pancreas Transplant and Kidney Living Donor Program's focuses on Quality Assurance Process Improvement and will cover Key Performance Indicators, Regulatory Readiness/Updates, Adverse events, PI projects, PennChart Updates

Describe diagnosis management and therapeutics of relevant clinic medicine as it pertains to hospital medicine. Didactic discussion of diseases and management and prevention.

Case conference series to provide evidence-based interprofessional education about Palliative and End-of-Life care to Penn Medicine hospital-based, outpatient, and home care clinicians who engage in the care of patient with serious illnesses.

This educational conference is designed for physicians, nurses, and physician assistants in the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and related departments. Faculty and residents will review individual cases and discuss patient safety and risk management strategies to help mitigate complications and improve patient outcomes.