Advance Your Career
Do you envision a career as a clinician-educator? The Internal Medicine Residency Clinician-Educator Track at BIDMC is a unique opportunity to develop the skills necessary to become a leader in medical education. Established in 2009, this first of its kind residency track in medical education has alumni in prominent educational leadership positions throughout the country.
Develop Skills Needed as an Educator
While resident-as-teacher programs offer an opportunity to learn many of the basic elements of effective teaching, more training is needed to fully develop the skills needed to succeed as a future clinician-educator. This novel track will provide you the opportunity to rapidly advance your career goals.
More Than The Ability to Teach Effectively
A successful academic clinician-educator needs more than the ability to teach effectively. To excel as a clinician educator, you must also:
- Possess the knowledge and skills needed to evaluate learners and programs and effectively design new curricular offerings.
- Develop the expertise necessary to be an efficient administrator, effective leader and successful change agent.
- Master the skills needed to investigate and disseminate important educational developments.
Curriculum and Timeline
Categorical residents who wish to participate in the Clinician-Educator Track will apply for a position during their intern year. Once accepted, their schedule is built such that they have protected time to attend a highly rated Harvard CME course on teaching skills, a week long teaching boot camp run by track directors and educational leaders at BIDMC, and then monthly seminars to not only learn about educational best practices but practice teaching and lecturing.
Track Features
Small Group Sessions
During highly interactive, cohesive, small group sessions we will discuss and apply the key principles of medical education and practice teaching skills.
Observation and Taping of Teaching Sessions
To enhance your teaching skills and to facilitate self reflection and peer and faculty feedback, we will directly observe and video tape many of your teaching sessions.
Mentorship
You will be paired with mentors who will provide longitudinal guidance and support.
Research Course and Project
To enhance your skills as an educational researcher, you will have the opportunity to participate in our highly successful two-week research course and will work with mentors to create and implement an educational scholarly project/study.
Timeline
A sample timeline and a partial list of curricular offerings are below.
