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Education Scholar Fellowship

New in 2024

The new Education Scholar Fellowship (ESF) combines the very best of the Center for Medical Education’s Medical Education Fellowship (MEF) and Internal Medicine’s Advancement of Clinician-Educator Scholarship (ACES) Program. The ESF, which is replacing these two successful programs, is a one-year faculty development program in education and scholarship skills for junior faculty. It includes training, mentorship, and leadership development opportunities.

The ESF is offered by the Center for Medical Education under the leadership of Janet Hafler, EdD, associate dean for teaching and learning. Donna Windish, MD, MPH, professor of medicine (general internal medicine) is the ESF director.

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Fellowship Logistics

  • All Yale faculty holding the rank of instructor, clinical instructor or higher are eligible and may 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

  • Application deadline: 11:59pm Eastern Standard Monday, March 18.
  • Acceptance decisions: Emailed in mid-April.
  • Selection process: The Center for Medical Education ESF Selection Committee reviews each application. 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)


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2023-24 Fellows

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