Geisinger internal medicine residents have the opportunity to apply for and participate in a Clinician Educator Track. The track offers participants a structured pathway for developing foundational skills in medical education in preparation for future careers as clinician educators. Due to the demands of intern year, the track is completed over the second and third years of residency. Participants receive preferential consideration for chief residency positions and are awarded a Certificate of Distinction in Medical Education upon successful completion.

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Timeline

PGY 1

• Communicate interest in track to program leadership

• Submit clinician educator track application

• Consider ideas for educational scholarship project 

 

PGY 2

• Participate in longitudinal didactic curriculum            

• Develop an educational scholarship project with faculty mentorship

• Build teaching, assessment, and feedback skills with direct observation and feedback from faculty and learners through:

  • Leading resident report

  • Teaching intern survival series didactics

  • Delivering an inpatient chalk talk

  • Teaching medical students on clinician rounds

  • Providing feedback to junior learners

• Apply for protégé membership in Geisinger Academy of Educators

• Receive medical school faculty appointment

• Mentor medical students

• Consider application for chief residency

 

PGY 3

• Continued participation in didactics and teaching activities from PGY-2

• Take on advanced teaching roles:

  • Lead Complex case conference and inpatient rounds

  • Provide peer feedback on teaching sessions (resident report, complex case conference)

• Maintain membership in good standing in Academy of Educators

• Implement and complete educational scholarship project 

• Submit academic project for presentation at Geisinger Educational Scholarship Symposium

• Consider submitting academic project for publication or national conference presentation

 

Clinician Educator Track Didactic Content

• Adult learning theory

• Metacognition and cognitive bias

• Mastery learning

• Best clinical teaching practices

• Teaching clinical reasoning

• Teaching in large and small groups

• Simulation in medical education

• Strategies to enhance learner engagement (i.e. flipped classroom, gamification, etc.)

• Technology in education

• Curriculum development using Kern’s 6 Step Model

• Mentoring, advising & coaching

• Competency based medical education and learner assessment

• Advanced feedback skills

• Diagnosing and remediating the struggling learner

• Leadership in medical education

• Professional development as a clinician-educator

• Creating a teaching portfolio