Presenter: Jon Courand, MD, FAAP
Overview:
Residents As Elite Athletes? What We Can Be Taught About Resident Performance
Objectives:
To increase awareness and education for pediatric providers
Jon Courand, MD, FAAP completed his MD, Pediatric Residency, and Chief Residency at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and his Pediatric Critical Care Fellowship at Harvard/Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He is a Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Pediatrics where he has served clinically as both a Pediatric Critical Care Attending for 20 years, and he is now a Board-certified Pediatric Hospitalist. He was the creator and inaugural Division Chief of Inpatient Pediatrics. He has also served as the Pediatric Program Director for 10 years. Currently, he is the Assistant Dean for Well-Being in the Office of Graduate Medical Education where he oversees all the well-being and mental health resources and initiatives for the institutions close to 900 residents and fellows. He has been involved with physician wellness programs on a local, state (UT System) and national (ACGME, AAMC) level and is current Chair-elect of the AAMC/CFAS Organizational and Faculty Wellness Committee. This past summer, Dr. Courand completed the Stanford Chief Wellness Officer Course. He completed Compassion-Integrity Training for the city of San Antonio at the invitation of Mayor Ron Nirenberg and currently overseeing Cohort # 4 of the resident and fellow Compassion Course which he helped develop and presented nationally. He is actively involved with the Healer’s Art Program in the Medical School. Dr Courand recently received the Presidential Teaching Award for UT Health San Antonio for sustained teaching excellence.
Financial Disclosures: Jon Courand, MD, FAAP, has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclosure.
The Pediatric Grand Rounds Planning Committee (Deepak Kamat MD, PhD, Daniel Ranch, MD and Elizabeth Hanson, MD) has no financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. Planning Committee member Steven Seidner, MD has disclosed he receives funding from Draeger Medical for the Clinical Study to Evaluate the Safety and Effectiveness of the Infinity Acute Care System Workstation Neonatal Care Babylog VN500 Device in High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation (HFOV) Mode in Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) Neonates for which he is a co-principal investigator.
Credits:
AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hour)
Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hour)
MOC-2 credit (1.00 hour)
Target Audience:
Pediatric Doctors and Providers
Faculty, residents, health care providers; medical students and trainees.
Accreditation:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Designation:
The UT Health Science Center San Antonio designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Attendance. For information on applicability and acceptance, please consult your professional licensing board.