Medical Education Scholarship Advanced Mentorship

This SAEM-approved advanced mentorship is designed for a residency graduate interested in becoming an exceptional educator.  Stanford is at the forefront of medical education with a team of faculty innovating, advancing the field, and optimizing how we teach, assess, and help elevate learners

This two-year program provides time to fully immerse in all facets of medical education, ranging from teaching to curriculum development and scholarship.

Participants also have time and support to complete a Master’s in Health Professions Education, which in addition to individualized training, supports program participants in completing at least one meaningful scholarly project in medical education.  

Participants benefit from:

• Weekly Medical Education Conference to learn the foundational topics in medical education.
•  Weekly Works in Progress meetings to present projects and grant ideas to a mastermind group for feedback and refinement.
• Access to Stanford’s countless resources, collaborators, and mentorship. Participants are members of the Precision Education and Assessment Research Lab (PEARL) and receive directed mentorship from the senior scholars in the lab.

Program participants learn:

• curriculum development
• tools to be an effective lecturer
• different methods of evaluating learners

Participants have opportunities to network at national conferences and acquire skills to be a successful academician through the ACEP teaching fellowship.

Participants are also given guidance to create an academic research project with the goal of publication. Ultimately, the program will prepare the participant for a career excelling in education, clinical work, research, and residency leadership.

Teaching

• Fellows will:
• Design board review curriculum to help prepare residents for the in-service exam and ultimately the emergency medicine boards
• Develop skills to become a trusted guide and mentor to students/residents
• Deliver effective lecture presentations
• Create, with assistance, an asynchronous curriculum for residents utilizing the resident iPads
• Examine and evaluate resident’s bedside skills during two teaching shifts per month. Ultimately relating feedback to the resident to help improve their performance.

Clinical

• Fellows will learn:
• Development of good clinical practices early in career
• Produce legally and financially sound charts in a timely manner (100% complete in 3 days)

Education

• Fellows will:
• Apply information learned through national conferences in teaching and clinical work
• Apply a variety of teaching methods, feedback techniques and approaches to evaluation of learners
• Develop the skills needed to become successful in an academic environment
• Become an excellent academic instructor
• Enhance your management and leadership skills
• Use the skills learned in the ACEP Teaching Fellowship
• Implement (clinically) material learned through educational conference and journal clubs
• Prepare for and obtain EM board certification
• Demonstrate improved knowledge in simulation

Research

• Fellows will:
• Interpret and evaluate journal articles
• Construct a research project based on personal academic interests
• Present poster/oral presentation at regional/national conference, ideally going on to publish material

Administrative

• Fellows will:
• Distinguish desirable traits/qualities in an applicant to help determine the best candidate for residency
• Learn important aspects of the interview process, including how to evaluate an application, read a SLOR (standard letter of recommendation), and select candidates
• Participate and help in preparation for RRC review, including implementation of milestones (new evaluation method)
• Employ leadership skills as demonstrated by serving on a national committee

Program participants combine clinical shifts in an academic teaching hospital with didactics. 

• Participants are required to work 8 shifts per month (approximately 15 hours per week) as Attending Physician in the ED at Stanford University Hospital, with an academic appointment of Clinical Instructor in the Clinician Educator Line at Stanford University. 
• While attending in the ED, participants supervise residents and medical students. 
• Clinical time is spent at Stanford University Hospital, which is a world-renowned medical center.  It is a Level 1 Adult and Pediatric trauma center with aero-medical transport. The diverse and high-acuity patient population provides an excellent opportunity to continue to master clinical skills.  
• All participants must be ABEM board-certified/eligible.

Important Dates

• Submit application by September 30
• Decision made by November 1

Eligibility

• Background and interest in teaching, education, research, and administration
• Residency program completion
• Active and unrestricted California Medical License at the start of fellowship (generally takes 4 to 6 months to obtain)
• Board-eligible or board-certified emergency medicine physician from a four -year ACGME-accredited emergency medicine residency programs or a three-year ACGME EM programs with minimum one-year post-graduate experience
   

To Apply

Submit:

• CV
• letter of interest
• 3 letters of reference (1 must be from your program director) 

Send to Bianca Velasquez.