SIUH Medical Education Fellowship

Fellowship Directors: Abbas Husain, Anand Swaminathan

Goal:

Our mission is to develop fellows who will be the future leaders in medical education in the Emergency Medicine world.

Program Description:

Our comprehensive two-year fellowship is designed to expose a medical education fellow to all the critical components required to excel in the current landscape of medical education. This includes extensive training on presentation design and delivery, podcasting, utilizing technology for teaching and bedside teaching. The program also ensures fellows are exposed to the facets of emergency medicine program administration in order to guide development into a leader in medical education.

Fellows will participate in both formal fellow education sessions, as well as facilitated medical education journal clubs. They will also participate as teachers as part of the following curricula: intern orientation, longitudinal intern education sessions, weekly residency conference, simulation.

Areas of Specialized Training:

1. Residency Education

2. Curriculum development

3. Bedside teaching

4. Teaching methods: large group and small group teaching

5. Procedural training

6. Learner feedback and assessment

7. Program development, assessment and evaluation

8. Simulation

9. Advanced Ultrasound training

10. Presentation development

11. Podcasting

12. Alternative Educational Resources (ie blogs, vlogs, social media)

13. Mentoring

14. Education scholarship

15. Research

16. Global Health opportunities

17. Residency Finances, Budget and Program Administration

Education and Training:

The centerpiece of this fellowship is the completion of a Masters of Science in Education (MSED) for Health Professions at MGH

Program Length:

2 years

Clinical Requirements:

Fellows will work approximately 940 clinical hours (0.5 FTE) per academic year in the emergency departments at Staten Island University Hospital (North site and Prince’s Bay site)

Prerequisites:

Board Eligible or Board Certified in Emergency Medicine

Start Date:

July 1, 2025

How to apply:

Interested candidates should email the fellowship program directors (aswaminathan@northwell.edu, ahusain1@northwell.edu) for more information and to provide:

Personal statement
CV
Two letters of recommendation

*updated July 2024

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