Assistant Professor
Research Project: Enhancing Inpatient Psychiatry Education Through Case-Based Learning and Digital Resources
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. There are 33 sessions in total.
- 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)
2024-25 ESF Fellows
2025-2026 Fellows
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Research Project: Enhancing Practical Knowledge of Forensic Testing in PsychiatryAssociate Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases); Medical Director for Ambulatory Infectious Diseases, Internal Medicine; Donaldson Firm Chief, Internal Medicine; Curriculum Director: Medical Informatics in Infectious Diseases Training Track, Infectious Diseases
Research Project: Creation and Evaluation of an Infectious Diseases (ID) Curriculum for Medical Residents and Students on an Inpatient ID Service.Assistant Professor; Associate Program Director, Adult Neurology Residency , Neurology; Associate Program Director, Neurocritical Care Fellowship, Neurology
Research Project: Implementing a Case-Based Neurologic Emergencies Curriculum: A Pilot StudyInstructor of Emergency Medicine
Research Project: Disaster Medicine Fellowship CurriculumAssistant Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology)
Research Project: Curriculum renovation to improve awareness, knowledge and practice in cardiovascular risk management in patients with rheumatic diseases for internal medicine residentsAssistant Professor of Psychiatry
Research Project: Educating Clinicians About Racial Bias When Managing Pain in African-American WomenAssistant Professor of Surgery (Cardiac)
Research Project: Multidisciplinary Case-Based Approach to Learning Comprehensive Care for Congenital Heart DiseaseInstructor of Emergency Medicine
Research Project: Enhancing Prehospital Excellence: A Simulation-Based Training Curriculum for New Haven EMSAssistant Professor Adjunct (Yale PA Online Program)
Research Project: Implementation of Virtual Clinical Procedures Education for Physician Associate Students – Do These Sessions Improve Confidence, Ability to Perform Skills Correctly, and/or Likelihood to Perform Procedures on Rotations?Assistant Professor of Medicine (General Medicine); Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Traditional Residency Program
Research Project: Emergency Management for the Internist: Longitudinal Preparation for Disaster ReadinessAssociate Professor of Child Psychology; Associate Director, Developmental Disabilities Clinic, Child Study Center
Research Project: Faculty Mentorship at the Yale Child Study Center: A Needs AssessmentAssistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Research Project: Establishing ultrasound performance of peripheral nerve blocks and written test of regional anesthesia as methods of evaluating regional anesthesia competency in anesthiesology residencyAssistant Professor of Neurology
Research Project: Assessment of PA student utilization of AI in neurology course
ESF Faculty Instructors 2024-25
Curriculum Development: Needs Assessments, Learning Objectives, Logic Models, Evaluation Designs, Assessment and Feedback
Emory University, Developing an Entrustable Professional Activity (EPA), Qualitative Research Methods
Searching the Health Sciences Literature; Systematic Reviews, Scoping Reviews and other Evidence Syntheses
Survey Design and Evaluation, Active Learning Teaching Strategies, Statistical Tests for Educational Research, Survey Data Entry, Scientific Poster Development, 10-Minute Talk Development
ESF Faculty Mentors