Career and Professional Development Center
Visit us in the Exhibit Hall Location G! Near the Job Placement Center and Career Opportunities Aisle is the Career and Professional Development Center, which offers a variety of activities to help propel your career forward. Access mini skills sessions and one-on-one and group coaching, get a free professional headshot, enjoy a few fun photo opportunities, create your own recharge kit, and visit the networking lounge.
ACP Physician Peer Coaching—Live Sessions in New Orleans!
Sign up for 30-minute individual Career Coaching sessions or 1-hour group sessions with ACP-trained coaches in the Career and Professional Development Center. Group coaching topics include: Finding Your Agency and Your Voice; Getting Unstuck: Overcoming Career Obstacles; Identifying and Connecting with Your Core Values; How to Silence Your Inner Critic; and Identifying Your Strengths.
These are ticketed events, and appointments must be booked in advance. You can add on your coaching session when you register for Internal Medicine Meeting 2025 or at a later date. To add on a coaching session to an existing Internal Medicine Meeting 2025 registration:
- Click on “My Account”
- Navigate to “My Meetings” and click on “View Registration” next to Internal Medicine Meeting 2025 New Orleans
- Next to “Select Events,” click “Edit” and add a coaching session to your registration
For more information about coaching, or to register for our Fall 2025 Coach Training, go to ACP Physician Peer Coaching.
Networking Luncheon for Women Physicians—Friday, April 4 from Noon to 1 p.m.
*New this year: Registration required—$25/person—seating is limited
MEMBER-EXCLUSIVE event for posttraining women physicians.
Moderated by a panel of speakers and Well-being Champions (WBCs), participants will learn tips for improving work–life integration and how to set and maintain professional boundaries to enhance well-being.
Networking Social Event—Friday, April 4 from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in the CPDC
Don't miss out on the chance to mingle, enjoy refreshments, and connect with your colleagues! Dive into exciting activities hosted by the Career and Professional Development Center (CPDC), including ACP Member Connect–Speed Networking, CPDC HELLO (Bingo), raffles, and more!
Selfie Station
Gather old and new friends to take photos with fun New Orleans–themed props at our selfie station to memorialize your visit at Internal Medicine Meeting 2025. Share your photo on social media and see fellow attendees' pictures using the hashtag #IM2025. You can also create your own Mardi Gras mask to use at our selfie station.
#IMProud Group Mural
What makes you proud to be in internal medicine (IM)? What drives you to be your best? How do you make your unique voice heard? Share who you are and connect with your IM community by creating a coloring tile to add to our group mural.
Career Wisdom Board
What career advice would you share with others? What helps you shine when moments get tough? Share Your Light by filling out a card to hang on our Career Wisdom Board.
Vision Board
Engage in creative activities to help you envision the next steps in your professional journey or to encapsulate your experience at Internal Medicine Meeting 2025.
Sensory Station
Stop by the Fun Zone to create your own ACP Recharge Kit. Choose from a variety of ACP-branded items to help with stress relief and sensory grounding while connecting you to ACP well-being resources.
Mini But Mighty Skills Sessions
Participate in 10- to 15-minute mini sessions designed to help you enhance your well-being, career and professional development, and academic skills.
Well-being–Themed Scientific Sessions
There are many well-being and professional fulfillment activities to choose from this year at Internal Medicine Meeting 2025. Topics include: Practical Strategies for Promoting Positive Learning Environments; How to Encourage Internal Medicine Physicians to Stay and Thrive in Clinical Practice; Moral Distress in Clinical Settings: Navigating Obstacles to Well-being in the Moment; and Storytelling Workshop: Humanism in Medicine, among others. Design an experience best suited to your well-being and professional fulfillment interests and needs.
**Final Reminder** Current and Past WBCs Are Eligible to Attend ACP's Quality Improvement Leadership Training: Best Practices to Achieve Meaningful and Sustainable Improvement Precourse
ACP's annual quality improvement (QI) leadership training program provides meaningful QI implementation support based on the principles of clinician engagement, patient and family partnership, team-based care, promotion of health equity, and promotion of clinician well-being. Participants will have the opportunity to work in small groups, with the support of a trained ACP Coach, as they design their QI project.
To register for the QI precourse as a WBC, please e-mail jdrass@acponline.org.
It's not too late to join us, either in-person or virtually, next month at the ACP Internal Medicine Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 3 to 5, 2025!
Back to the March 21, 2025 issue of ACP IM Thriving