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Clinical Development

Advancing clinical expertise through targeted learning experiences that strengthen skills, support growth, and improve patient outcomes.

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Courses
  • Synchronous Course

    Care of the Transgender Patient

    Care of the Transgender Patient - Advancing Evidence-Based Gender Affirming Care is designed for physicians, advanced practice providers, nurses, and other healthcare professionals dedicated to delivering inclusive, affirming care to patients who identify as transgender or nonbinary.

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  • Synchronous Course

    Clinical Quality Improvement Design Workshop

    Healthcare Impact Lab: Training Program in Clinical Practice Improvement

    Build real solutions for real healthcare challenges in 30 days.

    Oct. 14, 21, 28 and Nov. 4, 2026

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  • Synchronous Course

    Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART)

    A Wellness and CME Program for UC Davis Attending Physicians and Advanced Practice Providers

    Learn meditation and other mind-body, cognitive, and lifestyle skills for enhancing wellness and improving the quality of patient care in a supportive environment with colleagues.

    8 sessions from Oct. through Dec. 2026, 4-5 p.m.
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  • Asynchronous Course

    Communication and Optimal Resolution (CANDOR)

    Learn what CANDOR is, what steps to apply when an adverse event occurs, where to access supporting materials, and how to mitigate bias when using the CANDOR approach.

    Open course (UC Learning)
  • Asynchronous Course

    Conflict Competence for Physicians: Conflict Management Basics

    Learn to identify how conflict progresses, how to apply conflict management tools in a healthcare environment, and more.

    Open course (UC Learning)
  • Asynchronous Course

    Conflict Competence for Physicians: Conflict De-Escalation and Conflict Styles

    Learn to identify conflict styles, and how to appropriately apply de-escalation tools to conflicts in a healthcare environment.

    Open course (UC Learning)
  • Asynchronous Course

    Personal Safety in the Healthcare Setting

    This course supports all healthcare workers in recognizing dangerous situations and promotes situational awareness and personal defense. By completing this course, learners will be able to explain what situational awareness means in the context of personal safety, assess the safety of the clinical environment, locate UC Davis Health resources that help make one’s environment safe while working, identify options for self-defense, determine how applying cultural linguistic sensitivity to clinician-patient interactions can avoid possible confrontations, as well as how addressing clinician implicit biases can be a means of reducing workplace violence.

    Open course (UC Learning)
  • Asynchronous Course

    Professionalism for Faculty and Residents

    Upon completion of this course, learners will be able to:

    1. Describe professionalism and professionalism lapses;
    2. Review current conceptualizations of professionalism lapses;
    3. Discuss challenges involved in identifying professionalism lapses;
    4. Explore underlying factors that may contribute to professionalism lapses;
    5. Consider options for responding to professionalism lapses, including available supports and resources.
    Open course (UC Learning)
  • Asynchronous Course

    Race and Medicine in Clinical Practice

    Upon completion of this course, you will be able to: Define race, racism and anti-racism; Discuss the history of race as a social construct; Explain how race is used in medicine (often incorrectly); Distinguish race as a social construct from genetic populations with shared ancestry; and Identify methods of practicing anti-racism in medicine.

    Open course (UC Learning)
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Continuing Medical Education

The Office of Continuing Medical Education offers several learning opportunities for faculty and health sciences professionals.

Browse courses on the OCME website