On Jan. 15, 2025, UW Medicine employees will receive their 2025 Annual Training assignments.
The courses were developed by subject matter experts across UW Medicine to highlight safety issues, explain any changes in policies and procedures and to meet regulatory requirements. The total estimated completion time for these training courses is two hours and 30 minutes.
Please be sure to complete all assigned training when you receive the assignment notification. The following training courses will be available in the Learning Hub starting on Jan. 15, 2025. Non-clinician employees must complete the modules by May 1, 2025. Clinicians can check their assignment notification for completion dates.
All Workforce Members
- Mandatory Compliance Training: Topics include compliance program services, patient privacy and data security, fraud, waste and abuse prevention, conflicts of interest/ethics, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act and how to report a compliance concern.
- Advancing Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Training: This course reviews UW Medicine’s vision for healthcare equity, impacts of structural inequity on our patient populations and more.
- Workplace Violence Prevention Training: This course reviews safety procedures for workplace violence, how to file incident reports, resiliency and violence prevention resources and more.
Staff Only
- Staff Refresher Training: This course has been updated for 2025 to meet regulatory requirements, highlight safety issues and explain changes in policies and procedures, such as Infection Prevention and Patient Safety, across UW Medicine.
Clinicians Only
- Required Clinician Training: This course meets regulatory requirements for providers, including training on bloodborne pathogens, disaster preparedness and antimicrobial stewardship.
- Documentation and Coding Excellence (UW Physicians): This course provides simple steps providers can take to improve their documentation. Topics include how patient complexity is calculated, how to define the minimum and optimal outpatient documentation standards using Monitor, Evaluate, Assess, Treat (MEAT) criteria and how high-complexity diagnosis codes and sufficient documentation can most easily be incorporated into practice.
- Valley Medical Center Electronic Health Record (EHR) Integrity: This course covers the importance of accurate documentation reflecting patient care provided during the encounter, a review of risks associated with the EHR, and medical student vs. resident documentation rules.
More information is available on the Annual Training and Compliance Training web pages.