Activity information

Jointly provided by Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and Anesthesia Knowledge Company LLC

Release date

October 9, 2026

Expiration date

October 9, 2027

Estimated time to complete activity

6 hours

This activity is intended for physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, registered nurses, and other licensed healthcare professionals in clinical practice, practice leadership, or practice ownership roles, across all career stages engaged in the business and administrative dimensions of practice.

After completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:

1. Interpret essential contract components and terminology; calculate total package value including tail coverage; prepare a negotiation approach with qualified counsel.
2. Interpret core practice financial indicators; implement a monthly financial review; apply improvement cycles to operational metrics.
3. Identify state licensing, filing, and registration obligations created by practice patterns; recognize compliance red flags requiring specialized consultation.
4. Describe documented associations between financial strain, burnout, and workforce attrition, including where the evidence is contested; design pre-commitment protocols modeled on clinical protocols.
5. Evaluate career and opportunity costs of transitions; conduct due diligence for practice ownership; design phased late-career transitions preserving continuity of care.
6. Identify occupational, regulatory, and liability risks; apply a triage framework for sequencing mitigation; prepare informed conversations with counsel and administrators.

Patrick J. Nailer, MD

Postgraduate Institute for Medicine (PIM) requires faculty, planners, and others in control of educational content to disclose all their financial relationships with ineligible companies. All identified financial relationships are thoroughly vetted and mitigated according to PIM policy. PIM is committed to providing its learners with high quality accredited continuing education activities and related materials that promote improvements or quality in healthcare and not a specific proprietary business interest of an ineligible company.

The faculty reported the following relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities related to the educational content of this CE activity:

Faculty Name and Degree(s)

Patrick J. Nailer, MD has nothing to disclose.

The PIM planners and others have nothing to disclose. The Anesthesiology Knowledge Company LLC planners and others have nothing to disclose.

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and Anesthesiology Knowledge Company LLC. Postgraduate Institute for Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications. The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners.  Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.

Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient's conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer's product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.

In order to obtain your CE certificate, please follow the steps below at the conclusion of the activity:

1. Go to www.cmeuniversity.com
2. Login or Create a New Account (will take less than 1 minute)
   • If you receive a message when creating a new account that “the email you entered is already in use”, please click the forgot my username or password link to have your Username and Password sent to you via email
   • After logging in, you may be asked to verify/update your information; after doing so, click Save at the bottom of the page
3. Type in 19722 at the top of the page, “Find Post-Test/Evaluation by Course”, and click enter
4. Click on the activity title when it appears
5. Choose the type of credit you desire
6. Complete the online Evaluation
7. Receive an immediate CE Certificate to download and/or print for your files

If you have questions regarding the certification of this activity, please contact PIM via email at inquiries@pimed.com.