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Activity Title, Date and Location
2025 APDIM Fall Meeting
October 16-18, 2025
Atlanta, Georgia


Course Description
The 2025 APDIM Fall Meeting is a workshop-intensive meeting providing the keys for professional growth to help internal medicine faculty and staff at any career level be better administrators, faculty, teachers, mentors, and employees. This two-day event will include plenary sessions lead by knowledge experts and hands-on workshops that will address both community-based and university-based program perspectives. Attendees will come away with tools and skills they can implement immediately upon returning to their institution.


Target Audience
This course is designed for internal medicine residency training program faculty (e.g., program directors, assistant/associate program directors, core faculty) and staff (e.g., program administrators and coordinators) as well as any other interested faculty and staff from a department of internal medicine.  

Learning Objectives

At the completion of the conference, participants should be able to:

  • Describe key concepts in academic medicine curriculum, Faculty Development, Practice of Medicine, Technology and Innovation, and Wellness.
  • Apply core principles from Business of Medicine, Faculty Development, Didactic and Point of Care Curriculum, and Technology and Innovation, to their roles in GME education.
  • Evaluate current practices within their programs and identify areas for improvement based on the knowledge gained.
  • Demonstrate practical leadership, management, and educational skills within their training programs.
    Implement effective strategies for managing and leading GME programs based on the knowledge gained.


Program Schedule/Agenda

Thursday, October 16

8:30am -8:45am  Welcome and Overview
8:45am-9:00am  ABCs of GME
9:00am-10:00am  The Yearly Cycle
10:00am-11:00am  Discussion with the ACGME RC-IM and ABIM
11:00am-11:15am  Break
11:15am-12:15pm  Resident Assessment, Milestones, and the CCC
12:15pm-1:15pm  Networking Lunch
1:15pm-1:45pm  Holistic Review and Values-Driven Recruitment
1:45pm-2:45pm  Recruitment and ERAS
2:45pm-3:00pm Break
3:00pm-4:00pm

Concurrent Session 1: Program Leadership & Management: Residency & Fellowship Program Directors

Concurrent Session 2: Program Leadership & Management: Associate Program Directors & Core Faculty

Concurrent Session 3: Program Leadership & Management: Program Administrators

4:15pm-4:45pm 

Concluding Remarks and Group Q&A

Friday, October 17

8:30am-8:45am Welcome
8:45am-10:00am Opening Plenary: Embracing Professional Identity Across the Generations of Educators and Learners
10:00am-10:30am  Break
10:30am-11:30am  Workshop Session I
11:30am-1:30pm  Networking Lunch
11:45am-12:45pm  Open Forum: Primary Care
1:30pm-2:30pm  Workshop Session II
2:30pm-2:45pm  Break
2:45pm-3:45pm Plenary II: Educators Influencing Physicians in Advocacy: A Colleagues Journey from Bedside Practice to Policy Promotion
4:00pm-5:00pm Workshop Session III

Saturday, October 18

8:00am-9:00am APDIM Assembly: Joint Session for Community-Based and University-Based Teaching Hospitals
8:45am-9:45am APDIM Assembly: Community-Based Teaching Hospitals
APDIM Assembly: University-Based Teaching Hospitals
10:00am-11:00am Workshop Session IV
11:15am-12:30pm Closing Plenary: From Arrival to Integration: Empowering IMGs in Uncharted Waters

The full program schedule/agenda with speakers for the 2025 APDIM Fall Meeting can be found here


Planning Committee
The planning committee list for the 2025 APDIM Fall Meeting can be found here


Faculty/Presenter List 
The faculty/presenter list for the 2025 APDIM Fall Meeting can be found here


Disclosure Summary
It is the policy of University of California San Diego School of Medicine Continuing Professional Development to ensure that the content of accredited continuing education and related materials is accurate, balanced, objective, and scientifically justified. Education must be free of the influence or control of ineligible companies, and protect learners from promotion, marketing, and commercial bias.  All persons in a position to control the content of accredited continuing education must disclose all financial relationships held with ineligible companies, prior to assuming a role in the activity. Those relationships deemed relevant to the education are mitigated prior to the activity through one of the following strategies, depending on the nature of relationship and the role of the person: 1) divesting the financial relationship, 2) altering the individual’s control over content, and/or 3) validating the planning decisions and/or content through independent peer review. All relevant financial relationships are mitigated prior to the activity and mitigation strategies and necessary steps for implementation are communicated to individuals prior to them assuming their role in the activity. Persons who refuse or fail to disclose are disqualified from participating in the activity.  Activities are evaluated by participants and peer reviewers to determine if the content was free of bias and met acceptable scientific standards. This information is considered in future activity planning.  All relevant financial relationships and the nature of those relationships are noted below.  All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated. 


Persons in control of content of this educational activity who are not specifically identified by name above, such as (but not limited to) course directors, faculty, CPD staff, planners, editorial staff, peer reviewers, and CPD committee reviewers do not have any relevant financial relationships.


This educational activity may contain discussion of unlabeled and/or investigational uses of agents that are not approved by the FDA. Please consult the prescribing information for each product. The views and opinions expressed in this activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of California San Diego School of Medicine.


Accreditation Statement
The University of California San Diego School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.


Credit Designation Statement
The University of California San Diego School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.


The University of California San Diego School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of:

  • 2025 APDIM Fall Meeting: 7.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
  • APDIM Precourse: 5.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.


Cultural & Linguistic Competency and Implicit Bias:
Continuing medical education (CME) providers are required by state Assembly Bills 1195 and 241, and the standards created by the California Medical Association (CMA), to include components that address cultural and linguistic competency and implicit bias in CME activities. The planners and presenters of this activity has been asked to provide meaningful consideration of these standards in the selection and presentation of content.  Additional information and resources are available on the UC San Diego CME website (cpd.ucsd.edu)


Commercial Support Acknowledgement
There is no commercial support for the 2025 APDIM Fall Meeting.


Registration Information
The registration information for the 2025 APDIM Fall Meeting can be found here


Cancellation Policy
The cancellation policy for the 2025 APDIM Fall Meeting can be found here.