October 22, 2026, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Webinar
Registration opens Oct. 2, 2026.
Ambulatory clinics play a crucial role in the training of internal medicine residents, distinct from hospital-based rotations in structure, team dynamics, and patient care duties. Since residents spend less time in clinic compared to hospital settings, regular structured meetings involving residents, faculty, and clinical staff can facilitate the transition from hospital to clinic settings and enhance the ambulatory experience.
In clinics, residents encounter all aspects of ambulatory practice, including administrative tasks like forms and prior authorizations. Well-conducted practice meetings can frame these experiences effectively, emphasizing the learning inherent in service. Such meetings promote communication, trust, and a sense of shared responsibility, creating psychologically safe learning environments. They offer a platform for collaboration among residents, interprofessional teams, chiefs, and faculty, and exemplify principles assessed under communication, professionalism, and systems-based practice milestones. These meetings can advance quality improvement projects, clinical workflow design, professional development, and updates on clinic changes.
To address the current gap in medical literature, we propose a workshop to collaboratively develop an optimal, customizable framework for resident clinic practice meetings. Facilitators will share their experiences and structures from their own resident clinics. Participants will engage in self-reflective activities to complete worksheets covering goals, stakeholder analysis, needs, resources, and challenges. The outcomes will serve as a guide for creating or refining resident clinic practice meetings at their institutions.