Best Laid Plans
About Best Laid Plans
Best Laid Plans was founded by Sarah Hart-Unger, MD, a pediatric endocrinologist, author, podcaster, and mother of three who understands firsthand the complexity of building a meaningful career while making space for life beyond medicine.
Through her writing, podcasts, speaking, and planning resources, Sarah helps busy professionals develop practical systems for managing their time, clarifying their priorities, and creating lives that reflect what matters most to them. Her approach combines thoughtful reflection with realistic, actionable strategies—recognizing that effective planning is not about doing more, but about using time and energy with greater intention.
For women in medicine navigating demanding careers alongside family, relationships, and personal goals, Best Laid Plans offers an encouraging framework for approaching those competing priorities with greater clarity and confidence. Sarah’s work empowers women to build sustainable rhythms that support both professional fulfillment and a rich life outside of work.
About the Best Laid Plans: Planning 2027 Course
Best Laid Plans: Planning 2027 – CME Edition is an interactive annual planning experience designed to help healthcare professionals approach the year ahead with greater clarity, intention, and balance. Led by Sarah, the course combines guided reflection, goal setting, time management, and practical planning strategies to support both professional effectiveness and personal well-being.
Through live, interactive sessions and on-demand educational content, participants explore vision development, calendar management, sustainable routines, organizational systems, and strategies for aligning daily priorities with long-term goals. Downloadable workbooks provide structured exercises to translate insights into actionable plans.
The course offers flexible participation through multiple live session dates, recorded content, and a midyear planning session to revisit goals and assess progress. The CME Edition also includes five hours of additional on-demand education, offering up to 5 hours of professional continuing education credit across multiple healthcare disciplines.
By integrating personal reflection with practical planning tools, this activity empowers healthcare professionals to navigate competing demands, establish meaningful priorities, and develop sustainable approaches to managing their professional and personal responsibilities.
How Pinnacle Supported Best Laid Plans Through Joint Providership
Learn at Pinnacle partnered with Best Laid Plans to bring its professional education to healthcare learners through a compliant, multidisciplinary continuing education framework. Pinnacle managed the accreditation process from review through reporting, ensuring the activity met applicable standards for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants, dentists, social workers, athletic trainers, and interprofessional teams.
Pinnacle’s team oversaw required disclosures, conflict-of-interest review, content compliance, accreditation documentation, learner evaluations, certificate generation, and reporting to the appropriate accrediting bodies. By managing these operational and regulatory details, Learn at Pinnacle enabled Best Laid Plans to offer professional credit without building the infrastructure of an independent CE program.
This partnership model allows Best Laid Plans to remain focused on creating meaningful educational experiences while Pinnacle provides the expertise and compliance support needed to deliver recognized continuing education credit.
