Academic Emergency Medicine Fellowship
The Academic and Administrative Fellowship is designed to provide ABEM certified/prepared physicians experience in Academic Emergency Medicine. The focus of the program is to prepare the Fellow to become a faculty member in an Emergency Medicine residency or a medical school with an active Emergency Medicine program. The Fellow participates in the daily function of the residency and is responsible for overseeing chief residents in the EM-III class. The Fellow becomes and integral part of the residency management group, a committee of faculty, residents and the program director, who oversee the program curriculum. The Fellow attends all faculty functions of the emergency department including faculty meeting and faculty development sessions. Fellows are expected to select an area of focus for the one-year period. These areas include research, teaching, or program administration. Projects related to the selected area are developed and completed during the fellowship. The Fellow will participate in the robust faculty development program at Stanford, including such activities as:
Monthly faculty meetings to:
- Discuss educational initiatives, research and specific efforts related to special programs and projects
- Review and critique the activities of individual faculty members
Monthly faculty development dinners for EM faculty, hosted by various faculty members. Activities include:
- Customer service
- Wellness
- Academic promotion
- LLSA preparation
Educational activities:
- Participate in the design and review of medical school courses
- Participate in the core curriculum lecture series and/or lab sessions
- Author grant applications for clinical and basic science research
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- To collaborate with other disciplines within the medical school
- To collaborate with residents as co-investigators - Participate in the Annual EM faculty retreat
- Participate in the Annual EM residency retreat
Other faculty development activities available include:
- Lecture series by the Stanford/Packard Center for Transitional Research in Medicine (SPCTRM)
- Weekly or bi-weekly sessions include topics such as:
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- How to Read a Medical Journal Article
- How to Prepare for an FDA Audit
- Types of Analysis
- Regression Analysis
- Legal Risk and Audit Implications of Clinical Research
- Biostatistics - The Faculty Development & Diversity Office
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- led by Vice Provost for Faculty Development & Diversity
- supports the faculty through a variety of programs and information resources - Included are:
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- orientation and informational events
- resources for new and junior faculty
- workshops for department chairs and deans
- initiatives supporting faculty diversity - The Faculty Women’s Forum
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- led by Co-chairs Natalie Rasgon, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and Deborah Rhode, McFarland Professor of Law and Director of the Center on Ethics
- Women Mentoring Women Network, launched February 2007
- Conferences which include:
- Academic women: Getting Ahead, Getting a Life, Getting together
- Stress and Its Management
- Enough Already: Advancing Women and Women’s Issues - Faculty specific faculty development programs are also available
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-"Simulation in Medical Education" (SiME) lecture series
- on-going series with lectures by world experts in simulation and medical education.
- GME Forum lecture series
- Monthly lectures on medical education and residency management
- Attended by program directors, junior faculty, chief residents
- Biomedical Ethics Grand Rounds
The Fellow is expected to participate in national and international educational conferences offered by the Stanford faculty, including the Stanford Symposium on Emergency Medicine and the Stanford Xtreme Emergency Medicine conferences. Additional teaching opportunities include bedside teaching while supervising residents and students in the emergency department, lectures during the core curriculum lecture series, skills labs for residents and medical students, mock oral examinations, among others.
As with all of our fellowships, this Fellow is ABEM certified/prepared, works as attending faculty physician in the emergency department and is appointed as a Clinical Instructor in the Stanford University School of Medicine.
