Clinician-Educator Track

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 you need to become a leader in medical education.

While resident-as-teacher programs offer an opportunity to learn many of the basic elements of effective teaching, more training is needed to succeed as a future clinician-educator. This novel track provides junior and senior year residents the opportunity to rapidly advance career goals.

"The CET had a huge impact on my early stages of development as a clinician-educator-scholar."

- Avi Cooper, MD, CET Track Graduate

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.

"All of my leadership positions are directly or indirectly related to my participation in the clinician-educator track."

- Jason Freed, MD, CET Track Graduate

Curriculum and Timeline

Categorical residents who wish to participate in the Clinician-Educator Track will apply for a position during their intern year. If accepted into the track, you will participate in a comprehensive longitudinal curriculum that will extend through the last two and a half years of your residency training.

Track Features

Small Group Sessions

During highly interactive, 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 facilitate self-reflection and peer and faculty feedback, we will directly observe and videotape many of your teaching sessions.

Mentorship

You will be paired with a mentor 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.

For more information about our Clinician-Educator Track, please see the Innovations Report recently published in Academic Medicine.

Beyond the Clinician-Educator Track, all of our residents receive extensive training on medical education, as we believe developing your skills as a teacher benefits students, residents, faculty, and even our patients!

"The CET was a great experience that gave me tools to advance my career."

- Neal Biddick, MD, CET Track Graduate

"Residents as Teachers:" The Clinician Educator Track

BIDMC recognizes the importance of comprehensive medical education in the training of its house officers. Residents in the program are not only encouraged to be active learners but also effective and highly skilled teachers. The Clinician Educator Track provides interested residents a unique opportunity to develop the skills necessary to become a leader in medical education. Categorical residents who wish to participate apply for a position during their intern year. If accepted into the track, they participate in a comprehensive longitudinal curriculum that will extend through the last two and a half years of your residency training and include focused didactic sessions and the opportunity to complete a medical education research project. All residents at BIDMC will become great teachers; the CET is for interested residents who want to make medical education a major part of their academic careers.