Curriculum
Overview
The curriculum will focus on two areas:
1. Development as a medical educator to include curriculum design, adult learning theory, multiple modalities for teaching, and educational research and scholarship.
2. Development as a leader for emergency medicine residencies and undergraduate medical education in emergency medicine.
Medical Education Training/Opportunities
The curriculum will focus on two areas:
- Education using books on leadership and education with discussion of the reading on a monthly basis.
- Develop an Educational Project that is of the caliber to be presented a CORD, SAEM or ACEP.
- Participate in the Yale Center for Medical Simulation (YCMS) Debriefing Course.
- Participate as a member of the YNHH GME Committee.
- The fellow will develop and implement an educational curriculum for Emergency Medicine Residents or for medical students rotating in Emergency Medicine.
- We will allow the fellow to select a particular track to focus their education geared towards their particular area of interest.
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Residency Education – they will focus their education project towards residency education, curriculum developments, assessment including the milestones and feedback.
- Undergraduate Medical Education – they will work directly with the Director of Undergraduate Medical Education and focus their education project towards student education, curriculum development, LCME guidelines and assessment using the entrustable professional activities
- Adult learning theory and implementation
- Bedside teaching
- Large group teaching
- Small group teaching
- Teaching using simulation
- Evaluation
- Feedback
- Communication of goals
- Self-directed learning
- Working with a challenging learner
Leadership Education/Opportunities
- Filling a position as an Assistant Program Director in the Emergency Medicine Residency. They will be the primary APD for 2 residents in each class and perform all reviews/meetings with their residents with the responsible class APD in attendance as an observer in order to give directed feedback.
- Monthly meetings with educational leaders to discuss leadership techniques and challenges with their specific areas. This will include review and discussion of assigned readings in articles and books involving leadership.
- Attend the Macy Education Leadership Course at Harvard. If it is not available, we will utilize the ACEP Teaching Fellowship as an alternative.
- Serve as a Faculty Advisor of the EM Interest Group
- Serve as a member of the following committees:
- Clinical Competency Committee (CCC)
- Program Evaluation Committee
- Residency Interviewing and Acceptance Committee
- Medical Student and Residency Education Committee
- Assist the leader of the EM Education/Simulation Area of Concentration
- Understand the role of the ACGME and the RRC-EM as the overarching guide for the EM Residency Education