Presentation Title: Leadership from the Start: Parallels from Medicine and Military
Speakers: Kulvinder Bajwa, MD
Date: Thursday, July 31, 2025
Time: 7:00 AM ‐ 8:00 AM
Location: Medical School Building
Learning Format: In‐Person
Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this activity, participants should be able to:
- Explain the importance of leadership in medical practice
- Show models of a tiered leadership systems, which start from the lowest level and continue till the end of service or career
- Compare a medical tiered system of responsibility for patients and patient care teams to other tiered systems of leadership
- Discuss preparation of both the leader and teams requires leadership training, simulation, and exercise/practice in translatable scenarios
- Propose the structure and strategy of a surgical tiered leadership systems built around leadership and leadership support
- Discuss why lifelong learning is needed to be a leader for life
Accreditation Statement:
McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Credit Designation:
- McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 Hour(s) Attendance w/ No Credit. Participants should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Event Disclosures:
Speakers:
Kulvinder Bajwa, MD has no financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients to disclose.
Planners and other Administrative Support:
Lillian Kao, MD, Professor, Surgery, Aditi Kashikar, MD, Richard Andrassy, MD, Shah-Jahan Dodwad, DO, and Marina E Petsalis, MD have no financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients to disclose.
Commercial Support:
This activity is not commercially supported.