The FPMRS Fellows Lecture Series is a new monthly webinar series for fellows. The webinars will be held on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 8:00 pm Eastern and will provide supplemental education on core topics of a basic curriculum common to all programs.
AUGS would like to thank the following sponsors for their support of the FPMRS Fellows Lecture Series: Allergan, an AbbVie Company; Axonics; Coloplast; Medtronic.
Upcoming Webinars
The Medical History of OB/GYN
Date: October 26, 2021
Time: 8 pm Eastern (7 pm Central, 5 pm Pacific)
Speaker: Tony Tizzano, MD, FACOG
Develop an awareness of and an appreciation for the remarkable evolution related to female pelvic surgery prior to the 20th century. Become acquainted with the astonishing array of historical instruments intended for vesico-vaginal fistula repair, ovariotomy and hysterectomy.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the surgical challenges faced by pioneering 19th century gynecologists.
- Identify requisites for consistently successful gynecologic surgery.
- List the fundamental gynecologic surgeries successfully performed during the 19th century.
- Describe the era’s astonishing array of gynecologic instrumentation that defined 19th century practitioners.
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Your Five Year Plan: An Interactive Workshop on Setting AND Meeting Your Goals
Date: November 10, 2021
Time: 7 pm Eastern (6 pm Central, 4 pm Pacific)
Speaker: Cynthia Brincat, MD, PhD
Is your life happening to you? Do you repeatedly find yourself in situations and wonder how you got there? In this Webinar we will spend some time on substantively answering the questions "Who am I? What am I doing? What am I becoming?" We will work on setting reasonable short and long term professional, personal and spiritual goals as well as concretely determining a plan to meet them.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe the data on goal achievement
- Describe your personal, professional and spiritual goals
- Articulate the concrete steps you will need to take to meet your goals in a realistic manner
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The Panel of Recent Graduates - Academic, Private, and Hybrid
Date: December 7, 2021
Time: 8 pm Eastern (7 pm Central, 5 pm Pacific)
Speaker: Caroline K. Cox, MD; Erik D. Hokenstad, MD; Ann Tran, MD
Transitioning from fellowship to independent practice can be daunting. This webinar will answer the common questions that fellows have about starting off in various practice environments.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss how to establish a presence and a patient base in a new system
- Discover how to form relationships with referral providers
- Recognize the dos and don'ts for surgical cases when you are starting out in practice
- Outline how to balance involvement in a new health system with avoiding over commitment as you start a practice
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Looking for more webinars for fellows? In 2020, AUGS, SGS and SUFU created a limited webinar series to engage fellows in supplemental learning during the COVID-19 crisis. The series features virtual didactic lectures that align with the FPMRS Guide to Learning given by world-renowned faculty in urology and gynecology. A case-based panel discussion and Q&A session follows each lecture.
Access the webinars here.