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Education Scholar Fellowship

Donna Windish, MD, MPH

ESF Program Director

Welcome to the webpage for the Center for Medical Education’s Education Scholar Fellowship (ESF). The ESF is a year-long faculty development program designed to train medical school faculty in educational strategies, curriculum/program development, and educational scholarship. Throughout the program, each participant will develop a scholarly project while being mentored by faculty trained in educational strategies and scholarship. For more information about the current fellows, mentors, and logistics, please review the ESF webpages.

Fellowship Logistics

  • All Yale faculty holding the rank of instructor, clinical instructor or higher are eligible to apply.
  • The fellowship runs from mid-July to mid-May. Participants meet each Monday, from 2:30 to 5:00 p.m.
  • The first session will be in-person on the YSM campus. The remaining sessions will be held via Zoom.
  • There is no tuition cost and CME credits are provided.

Goals for each fellow

  • Develop a deeper knowledge of and enhanced skills in educational scholarship
  • Apply the educational literature to an original project designed to enhance your department’s or the school’s education programs, such as teaching, curriculum design, or evaluation.
  • Design a poster of the education project and present at Medical Education Day at Yale, held annually on the first Thursday in June. (There is also a Graduation ceremony at Med Ed Day.)
  • Work with a mentor to enhance career development as a scholarly clinician-educator.
  • Explore methods to design a curriculum and construct effective learner evaluations and program assessments.
  • Explore principles of learning as they apply to a variety of teaching strategies.
  • Practice effective teaching and presentation skills including observation and giving feedback,

Application logistics

  • Applications are accepted annually.
  • The deadline for applications is mid-January.
  • The Center for Medical Education ESF Selection Committee reviews each application. Acceptance decisions are emailed by the end of February. Consideration is given to the priority of the applicant's project to the department and medical school.
  • 20 faculty members will be accepted each year.

Apply

  • The application is completed via Qualtrics in one sitting and cannot be saved once started. You may scroll through the application before submitting.
  • We recommend that you prepare all the information and documents prior to starting the application. Once you have everything ready, the application should take less than 10 minutes to complete.

Here is a list of the information you need to complete your application:

  • Letter signed by your department chair or, in larger departments, a letter from the section chief is appropriate in lieu of the department chair. This letter must state that the applicant has time released to attend all ESF sessions and Med Ed Day, as well as time to work on their scholarship project. (Word or PDF document, no longer than one page).
  • Title of your proposed education research or scholarship project.
  • Description of your proposed education research or scholarship (Word or PDF document, no longer than one page).
  • Yale CV1 & CV2 (Word or PDF document).
  • Personal statement about how the ESF will aid your future academic, educational, and/or research goals and interests. (Word or PDF document, no longer than one page)


2026-2027 Fellows

  • Jonathan Gorky, MD

    Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

    Research Project: Breaking Down Barriers to Intraoperative Teaching for Anesthesiology Residents
    Read More
  • Betty Hsiao, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology); Director, Fellowship Training Program, Rheumatology

    Research Project: Incorporating Live Patient Experiences into "First Year Medical Students" Rheumatology Curriculum
    Read More
  • Shannon Kay, MD

    Assistant Professor; Associate Program Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship, Internal Medicine; Interim Pre-Clerkship Pulmonary Course Director, Internal Medicine

    Research Project: Enhancing Outpatient Pulmonology Education Through a “One Pager” Curriculum
    Read More
  • Jeffrey Kaibin Lin, MD, MPH

    Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)

    Research Project: The Creation of a Street Medicine Training Program for Internal Medicine Residents in New Haven, Connecticut
    Read More
  • Vincent Mase, MD, BS

    Associate Professor of Surgery (Thoracic)

    Research Project: A Systematic Approach to Evaluation and Remediation in Surgical Graduate Medical Education
    Read More
  • Jennifer Braemar Ogilvie, MD, FACS

    Associate Professor of Surgery (Oncology, Endocrine); Chief, Endocrine Surgery

    Research Project: "Ascend": A Qualitative Study to Develop an Evidence-Based Career Acceleration Program for Near and Newly Promoted Associate Professors in Academic Surgery
    Read More
  • Adrienne Socci, MD

    Associate Professor, Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation; Affiliated Faculty, Yale Institute for Global Health

    Research Project: Implementing a Longitudinal Junior Resident Curriculum Including Learning Style Assessment and Knowledge Resource Orientation
    Read More
  • Yvonne Wang, MD

    Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science; Medical Student Elective Director, Ophthalmology

    Research Project: Use of a “Surgical Passport” to Standardize and Enhance the Teaching of Ophthalmic Surgery
    Read More
  • Katelyn Wong, MD

    Assistant Professor

    Research Project: Assessing Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Education During Pediatric Residency
    Read More
  • Anna Zimmerman, MD

    Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Medicine)

    Research Project: Assessing the Yale Primary Care Communication Skills Curriculum
    Read More

Incoming Fellow

Jasmine Hwang, MD, MS: Incoming Fellow, Endocrine Surgery

Research Project: Standing Strong: The Impact of Surgical Ergonomics Education on the Well-Being of Surgical Trainees and Surgeons

ESF Faculty Instructors 2026-27

ESF Faculty Mentors 2026-27

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