Maine Medical Center

Curriculum | Medical Education Fellowship

Pillars of our fellowship program

Activities

  • Twice monthly medical education fellowship conference
  • Monthly MEdCoP (Medical Education Community of Practice)
  • Optional - ACEP Teaching Fellowship
  • Optional - MaineHealth simulation training program

Didactics

  • Curriculum development
  • Teaching and assessing competencies
  • Feedback
  • Program evaluation
     

Activities

  • Simulations and skills day for clerkship students (UME)
  • Maine Track Core Clerkship Year Orientation (UME)
  • Maine Track Capstone (UME)
  • MaineHealth Maine Medical Center emergency medicine intern bootcamp (GME)
  • Grand rounds and skills days for emergency medicine residency (GME)
  • Monthly “Resident Report” (GME)
  • Emergency medicine faculty development  (CME/Faculty Dev)

Didactics

  • Bedside teaching
  • Presentation skills
  • Simulation and standardized patients
  • Teaching procedural skills
  • Team based learning & flipped classrooms
  • Podcasting and blogs
     

Activities

  • Assistant Clerkship Director (CD) for the MaineHealth Maine Medical Center emergency medicine clerkship
    • Orientation, curriculum development, mentorship, delivery of feedback, student evaluation
  • Clinical Competency Committee and the Program Evaluation Committee
  • Residency Interviews
  • Emergency medicine interest group for Tufts University School of Medicine MaineHealth Maine Track

Didactics

  • Transitions in medical education
  • Learner promotion and remediation
  • Coaching and mentoring
  • Medical education finances
     

Activities

  • AAMC Medical Education Research Certificate (MERC) program 
  • Medical Education Scholarship and Research (MESRE) section of the AAMC Group of Education Affairs
  • Design and implement a scholarly project
  • Create manuscript/curriculum/tool for publication
  • Present at regional or national conference

Didactics

  • Types of scholarship
  • Conceptual frameworks
  • Qualitative analysis
  • Quantitative analysis
  • Survey research methods
  • Where to publish
     

Activities

  • Twice monthly medical education fellowship conference
  • Mentorship and coaching from fellowship faculty to create and achieve professional goals
  • Access to MaineHealth Institute for Teaching Excellent (MITE) resources
  • Attend national and regional conferences in health professions education and research

Didactics

  • Elements of effective mentorship
  • Navigating opportunities in academic medicine
  • Career transitions
  • Promotions, academic expectation and creation of academic portfolios