Medical Education Fellowship

Requisition #: A-175815-11

Status: Full Time

Type: ASTP (Advanced Specialty Training Program)

School: School of Medicine

Department/Program: Department of Emergency Medicine

Salary: $90,392

Location City: Baltimore

Location State: MD

Location Zip Code: 21287

Closing Date: Open until filled

To apply: apply.interfolio.com/175815

General Description

Mission:

Our mission is to develop fellows who are both knowledgeable in the essential areas of medical education and who are ready to improve medical education within Emergency Medicine.

 The program includes focus on the following areas: design and administration of educational programs (graduate and undergraduate medical education programs), curriculum development, effective skill in feedback, mentorship, and learner assessment, as well as development as a skilled educator across various settings.

 Duration:

1-2 years (2 year fellows complete MEHP degree)

Advanced degrees/other education:

Fellows can apply for the Masters in Education for the Health Professions at Johns Hopkins School of Education.  They can also apply to the ACEP Teaching Fellowship or take courses through the Johns Hopkins Faculty Development Office.

 General Goals:

 The Education Fellowship is designed to address the following core objectives:

1.      Fellows will work under the direction of a program leader to learn the essential components of both residency and undergraduate medical administration.   This will include regulatory guidelines, certification maintenance, as well as programmatic structural requirements.

2.      Fellows will develop skill in curricular development, learning how to perform a needs assessment, as well as research, design, and implement a curricular advance into an educational program in the department. (UME, GME, APP, Faculty)

3.      Fellows will develop an understanding of both programmatic (i.e. curricula above) and individual assessment (learner) and will participate in feedback sessions to learners engaged in their role as an "Acting Assistant Program Director."

4.      Fellows will develop leadership skill to function an educational leader in the departmental program in which they are participating.

5.      Fellows will develop a diverse set of skills as an educator through the development of educational materials that can will delivered across varied settings.  (i.e. Large group didactic, small group case discussion, simulation)

Other Possible Areas for Focused Goals:

1. Simulation

Fellows will work under the direction of Drs. Julie Rice or Jules Jung to learn the essential components required to integrate simulation into medical education curricula.  

1.                  Fellows will develop an understanding of the usefulness of simulation and how it is best used as an educational tool.

2.                  Fellows will practice using simulation as a form of evaluation to assess fellow performance in the core competency areas.

3.                  Fellows will assist in running 5 simulation cases under the supervision of a simulation expert

4.                  Fellows will research, design and implement a curriculum into a part of the fellow or medical student curriculum

2. Evidence Based Medical Education

Fellows will work under the director of Drs. Tony Busti (adjunct faculty), Linda Regan, and/or Jeremiah Hinson to learn the essential components of EBM as well as evidence based medical education (EBME) as well as how to integrate EBME into their clinical practice.

1.           Fellows will develop an understanding of what EMBE is and how it differs from EBM, as well as an understanding of what an evidence based practitioner looks like

2.           Fellows will develop an understanding of the principles of critical appraisal of the literature

3.           Fellows will develop the ability to successfully utilize the 5As of EBM to answer a single clinical question

Formal Sessions Covered in Monthly Meetings:

       Adult educational theory

2.      Curriculum Development - follow Kern text, attend ACEP Teaching Fellowship or JH longitudinal curriculum development course or defer to MEHP course

3.      Bedside and Clinical Teaching

4.      Effective lecture skills and slide development

5.      Small group teaching

6.      Learner Feedback and Assessment

7.      Program Development

8.      Teaching procedures

9.      Simulation

10.  The mentor-mentee relationship

11.  Documenting teaching for educational credit

12.  Competency-based medical education

13.  Choosing the right journal

14.  Journal clubs

15.  TBD by fellow request/need

Fellows are required to participate in activities across each of the following areas:

1.                  Teaching and Program Administration: Residency lectures, medical student lectures, small group direction, bedside clinical teaching, simulation activities, weekly administrative meetings

2.                  Research and Scholarly Pursuit: Participation in new or ongoing work (e.g. Evaluation of any new curriculum introduced, assessment of current knowledge/technical skill of current residents, needs assessment for new curricula), development of implementable project, prepare a submission worthy grant application, work with librarian to do literature review and create annotated biography, conduct supervised journal peer-review

3.                  Disseminating Scholarship: Perform mentored peer review of nationally submitted articles, prepare a submission worthy manuscript, compose an EBM Consult submission, participate in Writing Accountability Groups, submit a local/regional/national didactic

4.                  Personal Development: ACEP Teaching Fellowship or MEHP, attend monthly fellowship sessions, run/participate in education journal club, attending Teaching College meetings, attend national conferences (e.g. CORD, ACGME, SAEM), create Educator's Portfolio, any faculty development courses through the Office of Faculty Development

5.                  Clinical:  Fellows will work 900 hours at one or more than one of our clinical sites.  Fellows will work in both supervisory and primary clinically roles based on both clinical need and educational value.

Fellow Assessment:

Fellows will be assessed across all of the domains above.  The fellow and the fellowship director will create goals for the fellow to work towards over the duration of the fellowship.  Fellows will be assessed on metrics determined at the beginning of the fellowship.  The fellow will be evaluated in the standard way faculty educators in the department are currently evaluated (e.g. clinical educator evaluations in New Innovations, conference evaluations).  The fellow will receive quarterly feedback on their progress towards meeting their goals.

Qualifications

• Board Eligible or Certified in Emergency Medicine (special consideration may be given to Board Eligible or Board Certified non-Emergency Medicine graduates  

• Fellows must work approximately 800 clinical hours per academic year

Application Instructions

Interested candidates should email Christina Tarleton, C-TAGME, at [email protected] for more information and to provide:

• Letter of interest
• CV
• Two letters of recommendation (one must be from your Residency Program Director if you are a current resident)

Salary Range

The referenced salary range represents the minimum and maximum salaries for this position and is based on Johns Hopkins University's good faith belief at the time of posting. Not all candidates will be eligible for the upper end of the salary range. The actual compensation offered to the selected candidate may vary and will ultimately depend on multiple factors, which may include the successful candidate's geographic location, skills, work experience, internal equity, market conditions, education/training and other factors, as reasonably determined by the University.

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