ECHO-Chicago: Adolescent Health

March 11, 2025 to June 10, 2025
Strengthen the future through adolescent healthcare!
 
Elevate your adolescent care with expert-led training designed for Illinois community-based primary care clinicians. Guided by faculty from the University of Chicago, this interactive, case-based program delivers practical strategies and real-world insights through engaging virtual rounds on Zoom. Connect with peers, tackle common challenges, and gain valuable tools to enhance adolescent health outcomes in your community. Don’t miss this opportunity to strengthen your skills and make a lasting impact—learn more today!

Target Audience

This activity is designed for physicians and other healthcare professionals interested in providing care to adolescent patients.

Learning Objectives

After this activity, participants will be able to:

  • Recall inclusive terminology and strategies to optimize electronic medical records (EMRs) for LGBTQ adolescent care;
  • Identify substance use, eating disorders, and contraception needs while facilitating referrals;
  • State how to utilize school-based and community resources to improve adolescent health outcomes;
  • Discuss how to diagnose and manage common adolescent health concerns, including STIs, HIV prevention (PrEP), HPV vaccination, and menstrual disorders;
  • Describe how to screen for mental health concerns and provide initial strategies for treatment and stress management;
  • Illustrate how to create youth-friendly clinical environments and access community resources;
  • Explain how to integrate adolescent risk assessment into clinical workflows;
  • Apply best practices in confidentiality, shared decision-making, and policy adherence.
Additional information
ACGME/ABMS Core Competencies: 
Patient Care and Procedural Skills
Medical Knowledge
Practice-based Learning and Improvement
Interpersonal and Communication Skills
Professionalism
Systems-based Practice
For more information, please contact:
CME Coordinator Contact Name: 
ECHO-Chicago
CME Coordinator Contact Email: 
echo@bsd.uchicago.edu
CME Coordinator Contact Phone: 
773-702-2213

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Summary
Available credit: 
  • 14.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 14.00 Participation
Event starts: 
03/11/2025 - 8:00am
Event ends: 
06/10/2025 - 9:00am
Activity opens: 
06/10/2025
Activity expires: 
09/10/2025
Add to calendar: 
Date
Topic
March 11
Overview
March 18
Youth-Friendly Approaches to Care
March 25
Navigating School Resources
April 1
LGBTQA+ Care
April 8
Sexually Transmitted Infections Part 1
April 15
Sexually Transmitted Infections Part 2
April 22
Contraception
April 29
Adolescent Pregnancy
May 6
Mental Health Screening
May 13
Mood Disorder Treatment
May 20
Nicotine (Including Vaping), Drugs (Marijuana, Opioid, Others)
May 27
Menstrual Disorders
June 3
Eating Concerns/Counseling
June 10
Transition of Care - Concluding Session & Ask Experts

*The schedule is subject to change.

Online Webinar
Chicago, IL
United States
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
To learn more about the ECHO-Chicago curricula, visit our website.
 
ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing equal access appropriate to need and circumstances and complies fully with legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are in need of special accommodation, please contact ECHO-Chicago via email at echo@bsd.uchicago.edu.
 
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
  Karen Bernstein, MD, MPH
  Associate Professor of 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 education 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 prior to 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 US 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 14 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Other Participant 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.
 
Please Note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the activity ends. Requests to claim credit after three months will be subject to additional fees.
 
ECHO-Chicago
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