Internal Medicine Clinician-Educator Track

Clinician-Educator Residency 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 necessary to become a leader in medical education.

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.

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 in to 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 to facilitate self reflection and peer and faculty feedback, we will directly observe and video tape many of your teaching sessions.

Mentor

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.