Professional Education Opportunities at UPMC Mercy

UPMC Mercy is committed to the ongoing teaching and education of physicians, nurses, emergency medical services (EMS), and allied health professionals.

UPMC Mercy offers ongoing continuing medical education (CME) opportunities in more than a dozen areas of interest including:

• Anesthesiology
• Cardiology and cardiovascular surgery
• Emergency medicine
• Family medicine
• Laboratory medicine
• Neurology
• Obstetrics and gynecology
• Oncology
• Physical medicine and rehabilitation
• Surgery
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support Courses (PALS)

With a long-standing reputation in the tri-state area for the high performance of its graduates, the Mercy Hospital School of Nursing guides nursing students toward professional behaviors and nursing decisions based upon the values of caring, competency, critical thinking, collaboration, responsibility, accountability, integrity, and commitment to holistic care.

We provide graduate medical training for interns and residents in a variety of fields. Students may participate in several of our affiliated programs or clinical clerkships.

We also strive to provide educational services to prehospital care providers. It is our belief that education plays a major role in achieving and maintaining quality performance. With that in mind, we feel that education needs to be a strong component in any pre-hospital care system.​