The Professional and Leadership Development component of the General Pediatric Master Educator Fellowship will be an ongoing seminar which spans both years of the program. The seminars will emphasize competencies necessary for today’s clinician educator: 1) educational scholarship (e.g. formal poster and platform presentations, manuscript and grant writing), 2) academic leadership (e.g. administrative and managerial skills, strategic planning, healthcare organization and delivery, coaching and mentoring, models for community-based education); 3) personal career development (e.g. strategies for life-long learning, job/salary negotiation, career trajectories, work-life balance, advocacy and professionalism); and 4) specialty areas of focus (e.g. caring for the underserved, innovation educational methods, population health, health literacy and medical informatics/technology).
The professional development seminar will include monthly meetings for the fellows to present and receive feedback on work in their specialty areas of focus, critique medical education literature, utilize electronic resources for medical education and participate in interactive learning sessions, topics described below, with content experts. Professional and Leadership Development activities will account for approximately 15% of the fellows’ time in the program. Potential topics for the series are listed below.
Topics for the Professional and Leadership Development Series include:
Educational Excellence
- Team based learning
- Teaching in the small group setting
- Providing Feedback
- Handling the difficult learner
- Adult learning principles and teaching styles
- Teaching clinical reasoning
- Innovative educational assessment tools
- E-learning, using Web 2.0 in medical education
Leadership and Administration
- Leadership management and skills
- Emotional Intelligence
- Running effective meetings
Scholarship
- Abstract preparation
- Workshop preparation
- Manuscript preparation
- How to choose a journal
- Writing a manuscript
- Responding to reviewers
- How to review a manuscript
- Poster preparation and presentation
- The “ins and outs” of an IRB submission
- Visually displaying results – graphs & charts
- Practicing your “elevator talk”
Professional Growth/Satisfaction
- Developing an educator portfolio
- Writing and reviewing your CV
- Promotion Requirements
- Work life balance
- Finding a mentor and creating a positive mentoring relationship
- The art of negotiation and job evaluation
- E-Professionalism in the era of social media
- Time Management