Medical Education Day Retreat: Strengthening the Continuum: Best Practices and Innovations in Medical Education

Chicago, IL US
February 5, 2026
This activity convenes leaders from UME, GME, CME, and Simulation to share best practices, align expectations and competencies, and develop practical, collaborative solutions. Through cross-disciplinary dialogue and shared problem-solving, the retreat strengthens continuity in medical education, enhances faculty effectiveness, and supports high-quality training that ultimately improves patient care.

Target Audience

This activity is designed for GME and UME program directors, clerkship and course directors, and other leaders in medical education.

Learning Objectives

After this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Explain key sources of fragmentation across the UME, GME, CME, and Simulation education continuum.
  • Describe principles of competency-based medical education that support alignment across the continuum.
  • Identify an area within their program or course where cross-continuum educational alignment could be improved.
  • Analyze a learner transition or remediation case to determine gaps in expectations or competency reinforcement between UME and GME.
  • Compare educational strategies used in UME and GME to support adaptive learning, coaching, or learner progression.
  • Develop a feasible strategy to enhance collaboration or continuity between at least two stages of the medical education continuum.
Additional information
ACGME/ABMS Core Competencies: 
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Professionalism
For more information, please contact:
CME Coordinator Contact Name: 
Allison Deneen
CME Coordinator Contact Email: 
[email protected]
CME Coordinator Contact Phone: 
773-702-5046

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Summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.50 Participation
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Event ends: 
02/05/2026 - 11:15am
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02/01/2026
Activity expires: 
03/05/2026
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The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this conference due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, the University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO FACULTY
Vineet Arora, MD
Herbert T. Abelson Professor of Medicine
Dean for Medical Education
 
H. Barrett Fromme, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Chief, Section of Academic Pediatrics
 
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships before the start of the activity.

Additionally, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Physician Credit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
Other Participants Credit
Other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
 
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