RESPONSE: Clinician-Educator Program for FITs

Clinician-educator pathway for radiology residents.

Faculty clinician-educator tracks have become increasingly common at US academic medical centers. Although many radiology faculty members belong to such tracks, there is little training in radiology residencies to prepare residents to take on these roles. The authors present a summary of a novel radiology residency clinician-educator pathway developed and piloted at their institution. The key c...

Teaching scholarship and the clinician/educator.

A national clinician–educator program: a model of an effective community of practice

BACKGROUND The increasing complexity of medical training often requires faculty members with educational expertise to address issues of curriculum design, instructional methods, assessment, program evaluation, faculty development, and educational scholarship, among others. DISCUSSION In 2007, The Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada responded to this need by establishing the first...

How can clinician-educator training programs be optimized to match clinician motivations and concerns?

BACKGROUND Several medical schools have implemented programs aimed at supporting clinician-educators with formal mentoring, training, and experience in undergraduate medical teaching. However, consensus program design has yet to be established, and the effectiveness of these programs in terms of producing quality clinician-educator teaching remains unclear. The goal of this study was to review ...

The clinician-educator track: training internal medicine residents as clinician-educators.

PROBLEM Although resident-as-teacher programs bring postgraduate trainees' teaching skills to a minimum threshold, intensive, longitudinal training is lacking for residents who wish to pursue careers in medical education. The authors describe the development, implementation, and preliminary assessment of the novel track for future clinician-educators that they introduced in the internal medicin...