Megan Orlando	Eva Reina	Olivia Cardenas-Trowers

Course Description

With this course, we aim to lay the foundation for young attendings to envision and develop a surgical practice after a benign gynecology surgical fellowship. Our target audience will include trainees and recent graduates of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery and Urogynecology and Reconstructive Pelvic Surgery fellowships. This course will address clinical, personal, and business topics that are not traditionally taught in residency and fellowship training. Areas of clinical focus will include designing a surgical practice to maximize operating room referrals and utilization, tips for caring for patients who are high healthcare utilizers (such as those with chronic pelvic pain), and optimization of office-based procedures such as cystoscopy and hysteroscopy. We will also cover financial topics such as billing and contract negotiation and individual areas such as identifying core values, personal growth and fulfillment. We aim to give early career attendings the opportunity to network with their national society peers and to ask personal and professional questions in a supportive environment to maximize their full potential.

Course Objectives

1. Growing your surgical practice: maximizing what matters to you and your patients
   a. Demonstrate how to optimize clinic templates for operating room utilization and efficiency
   b. Review strategies for working with general and referring providers: relationship building
   c. Discuss how to market your surgical practice d. Forecasting surgical timing, effective utilization of operating room time
2. Caring for patients who require significant resources in your clinic
   a. Describe processes to aid in caring for patients with chronic pain and behavioral health comorbidities in your clinic
   b. Review successful components of a multidisciplinary team
   c. Discuss methods for efficiency during exams, and office-based procedures
   d. High medical message resource use e. Working with medical interpreters
3. Contract evaluation and negotiation
   a. Review how to read and evaluate a contract as it pertains to time commitment, termination clauses, etc.
   b. Analyze compensation models across various practice areas, including academics and private practice
4. How to demonstrate and maintain financial viability
   a. Discuss financial viability metrics
   b. Review strategies for smart billing of time and procedures
5. Interfacing with industry in practice
   a. Describe best practices for working with industry in practice
   b. Review methods for adopting new skills, technologies and equipment, surgical growth after fellowship
   c. Adapting your practice to new hospital sites and locations
6. Identifying your core values: Envisioning and adapting your ideal practice throughout your career
   a. Discuss strategies for understanding your personal and professional goals and values
   b. Highlight way to grow and change throughout your career, including clinical, education, research and leadership opportunities
   c. Review how to get involved in national societies and ways to connect nationally and internationally for promotion

Course Agenda