Tufts ID Clinical Educator Concentration
Educating housestaff, medical students, and our peers and colleagues at Tufts Medical Center (Tufts MC) is integral to the field of infectious diseases. Fellows are the most visible teachers in our division, which is why we take the time to mentor existing fellows and those interested in becoming fellows to develop new skills and learn to design curricula.
Goals and objectives:
- To provide specialized, mentored experience for fellows interested in developing skills as clinician-educators.
- To plan, develop and assess curricular components of the Infectious Diseases Fellowship.
- To gain experience in educating various audiences.
Core activities:
- Fellows in the track will organize the core medical student lectures.
- Fellows will deliver mentored core lectures to rotating medical students and incorporate feedback to improve their lectures.
- Fellows will develop a new lecture aimed at house staff to be incorporated into the noon conference series and will receive feedback from an attending mentor.
- Fellows will develop a new lecture aimed at educating their co-fellows on a topic of their choosing within infectious diseases. Topics can include overviews of clinical guidelines.
- Fellows will lead bedside teaching rounds for rotating medical students once per week, with an emphasis on the abnormal physical examination.
- Fellows will participate as a small group leader in the microbiology medical school course.
Additional activities:
- Fellows will identify an educational need, perform a needs assessment, and plan, deliver and evaluate an educational intervention. This may overlap with activities for other tracks (i.e. delivering an in-service for infection prevention).
- When the opportunity arises, fellows will provide grand rounds at Tufts MC or a local hospital.
- There may be opportunities for attendance of regional or national education seminars for further education.