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Program: Scientific Session
General Topic: Workforce and Education

Workforce and Education Debate: Generation Z and Rheumatology Training: Adapt or Uphold Tradition?

Sunday, October 26, 2025
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Central Time

    Moderator(s)

  • SK

    Salahuddin Kazi, MD

    UT Southwestern Medical Center
    Dallas, Texas, United States

    Disclosure information not submitted.

    • Session Coordinator(s)

  • SK

    Salahuddin Kazi, MD

    UT Southwestern Medical Center
    Dallas, Texas, United States

    Disclosure information not submitted.

This session will be a debate addressing whether rheumatology fellowship training programs should align the curriculum and training program to the needs to Generation Z or whether Generation Z should adapt to a tried and tested format of established rheumatology fellowship training paradigms.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe the impact of generational change on the rheumatology fellowship training environment
  • Analyze the training challenges posed by Generation Z
  • Discuss strategies to mediate learning paradigms with the evolving expectations of learners from new generations

Presentations:

  • 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM Central Time
    Gen Z and Rheumatology Training: Fellowship Training Should Uphold Traditional Training Paradigms

    Speaker: Juliet Aizer, MD, MPH – Hospital for Special Surgery

  • 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM Central Time
    Gen Z and Rheumatology Training: Fellowship Training Should Adapt Traditional Training Paradigms

    Speaker: Jennifer Strouse, MD, FACR – University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics