OVERVIEW

2024 Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors (APCCMPD) Annual Conference is organized by Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors (APCCMPD) and will be held from Feb 28 - Mar 01, 2024 at Red Rock Casino Resort and Spa, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America.

Conference Learning Objectives:
Upon completion of this conference, participants should be able to:
• Develop strategies to prepare for national policies impacting graduate medical education.
• Explain and identify changes to existing ACGME Requirements.
• Ask questions about ACGME policies and processes, including site visits.
• Hear how to mentor residents at historically black college residency programs and develop opportunities that would benefit the residents there.
• Practice using tools to teach fellows about error reporting and completing root cause analyses (RCAs).
• Learn how to revise the design, delivery, and debriefing of existing simulation-based cases by incorporating health equity, diversity, and inclusion elements.
• Describe the iterative process of developing and implementing a teaching assessment committee, including potential pitfalls during the implementation phase.
• Identify lapses in professionalism in trainees, develop strategies to formulate individualized remediation plans for trainees, and understand how and what information to document for professionalism lapses.
• Identify features of coaching for professional development that are unique from mentorship and advising, define self-efficacy and its relation to a growth mindset, and develop the discreet coaching skills of recognition of thought distortions and strategic use of non-directive questioning.
• Reflect on the importance of diversity in fellowship training programs, leverage institutional assets to improve trainee diversity, and hear how to implement recruitment strategies that improve the diversity of fellowship training programs.
• Review methods and conclusions of key publications from 2023 addressing procedural training, simulation, communication, and trainee assessment.