Mission

The mission of the Medical Education Pathway is to create a learner-centered, multimodal, longitudinal experience for residents that promotes the development of knowledge, attitudes, and skills necessary for future careers as clinician-educators and leaders in medical education.  Pathway curriculum activities include a combination of seminar sessions, teaching activities, an educational scholarship project, and mentorship that aim to address the development of resident clinician-educator competencies in the following domains:

  • Clinical teaching
    Clinical Teaching
    Clinical Teaching
  • Curriculum development
  • Educational scholarship
  • Administration
  • Leadership

The Medical Education Pathway is open to all categorical, primary care track, and medicine-pediatrics program residents in good standing with the residency program. Categorical and primary care track residents complete the pathway during their second and third years of residency. Medicine-Pediatrics program residents complete the pathway during their third and fourth years of residency.

Curriculum Overview

  • Seminar series: Mixture of didactics, small-group discussion, and other interactive activities. These seminars will focus on best practices in medical education and core clinician-educator competencies.
  • Teaching activities: Residents participate in a variety of teaching activities, including a mixture of single-session and longitudinal opportunities. Examples include:
    • Problem-based learning course with medical students
    • Clinical skills course with medical students
    • Doctoring course with medical students
    • Case-based simulation with medical students and/or residents
    • Procedure-based simulation with medical students and/or residents
  • Educational scholarship project: Residents in the pathway will work closely with medical education mentors to develop a personal learning plan for the pathway, develop early career goals, construct an educational portfolio or curriculum vitae, and complete the educational scholarship project requirement.

Faculty Leadership

  • Antonio Pessegueiro, MD - Director
  • Rachel Brook, MD - Associate Director
  • Emily Cantor, MD - Associate Director
  • Pamela Tsing, MD - Associate Director