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Overview & Background of Medical Education Fellowships

There are continuous calls for quality improvement in content, process, and outcomes of medical education across the continuum, from undergraduate training, residency training to Continuing Medical Education (CME). With the goal of continuous improvement of medical education, it is important to have faculty members prepared to take on educational leadership roles to lead these efforts. These faculty members might be called upon to assist their departments in identifying essential learning objectives, designing effective educational experiences, improving assessment of performance, or evaluating the quality and impact of existing programs. Although faculty members have historically taken on this type of leadership without formal preparation, the Medical Education Fellowship is intended to develop needed competencies that such faculty can bring to bear in delivering educational responsibilities and making informed decisions.

Application Information

APPLY HERE (Application will open in a new window) by April 15, 2021.

MEF Certificate Program I: Innovations in Curriculum Design and Teaching Excellence.  

In this one-year program, participating fellows will explore the science and strategies of teaching and learning in medicine to enhance their knowledge and ability to make contributions as future leaders in our educational programs. Certificate program graduates are prepared to be “scholarly teachers,” by bringing the best of the science of teaching and learning to their work. They are hence well positioned to take on leadership roles in medical student teaching, residency/fellowship training and continuing medical education. As part of their fellowship training, participants will be supported in the design, implementation and evaluation of a curricular innovation. The second half of the fellowship provides fellows with a unique set of sessions designed to enhance their teaching excellence.

Faculty: Based on the internationally-acclaimed Stanford Faculty Development Program for Medical Teachers, this series of sessions is led by UCLA DGSOM faculty who were trained as facilitators at the Stanford program and provides fellows with practical, evidence-based approaches to teaching.

Duration: (1) One Year

Time Commitment: Each fellow will be expected to participate in a bi-weekly seminar series and to develop a specific curricular innovation employing evidence-based educational strategies and learning theories, accompanied by rigorous evaluation. 

Requirements: The fellowship requires a departmental commitment for the release of 10% of the faculty member's academic time for the period of one year. 

This program is ideal for:

  • Junior faculty who have emerging interest in medical education or are involved in leadership roles in education programs.
  • Senior residents, fellows, and Chief Residents are also great candidates and encouraged to apply. 

MEF Certificate Program II: Fellowship in Medical Education Scholarship. 

Some fellows completing the aforementioned one-year certificate program may choose to apply for a second year of training. In this certificate program, fellows will learn theories and principles of measurement, acquire rigorous research methodology in medical education, engage in a mentored scholarly project related to their curricular innovation, and obtain consultation from their fellow colleagues for new ideas to refine and improve their projects.

Faculty: Fellows are supported and mentored by faculty from DGSOM and from the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies to help them develop and implement their research project. The goal of the second year is to support emerging scholars in medical education to yield publication-ready, peer-reviewed scholarly work. 

Duration: (1) One Year

Time Commitment:

  • Fellows are expected to participate in a bi-weekly seminar series. 
  • They are expected to complete a research study approved by IRB and make a presentation of their completed study at a local, regional or national professional meeting.

Requirements: Fellows in the second-year program will be expected to have 20% protected time from their Department or Division for participating in the program

This program is ideal for:

  • Junior- or mid-career faculty who have completed the “Certificate Program I: Innovations in Curriculum Design and Teaching Excellence” fellowship, or equivalent, and hence already have experience designing, implementing, and evaluating curricular innovations – the program helps them turn such projects into scholarly work ready for publication.
  • Fellows whose scholarly work is closely related to medical education can also be excellent candidates for this program.  

NOTE: This program has limited enrollment, typically 6 per year. 

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