Education

Our fellowship is driven by the idea that we are fellow-centric, but not fellow-dependent. The philosophy allows us to really center your experience as both a learner and a teacher throughout your two years here. We are extremely proud of our fellows curricula, including both fellows school and our specialized sub-curriculum the “REAL” curriculum.

Fellows also participate in a broad spectrum of teaching opportunities across our medical campus.

Structured Educational Curriculum

Fellows’ School

Fellows school is a two-year curriculum following the ACGME milestones and the CFP guide to learning. It runs weekly and is a mix of didactics, case based discussions and webinars. Fellows are responsible for reading ahead of time and participating in the structured didactic. The goal of fellows school is to ensure the education required to be an expert in the field, providing consults to our colleagues and  excelling in your post-fellowship life. Other learners rotating with us also attend fellows’ school.

The reading is grounded in sentinel articles, guidelines, textbooks, and other evidence based articles and research.

REAL Curriculum (Research Education Advocacy Leadership)

The REAL Curriculum is a supplement to the traditional fellows’ school curriculum, grounded in the other content required to be an effective leader in the field, but not clinical in nature. Some examples of content within the REAL Curriculum are below:

Research: qualitative research methods, grant seeking, race and racism research methodology

Education: leading values clarification, writing a letter of recommendation, teaching theory, providing evaluations of learners

Advocacy: using social media, written advocacy workshops, traveling abortion provider panels

Leadership: Fundamental of leading and leading theory, post-fellowship financial planning, mentoring and being mentored, running and setting up a clinic

Teaching Opportunities

Our real power as educators is in the ripple effect of our learners taking what they learn from us and teaching it to others. As a program in a protected state, we take that privilege especially seriously.

Medical student teaching: mentorship for pre-clinical students participating in the student abortion advocacy group, panels and workshops, MVA workshop with each group of MS3s; leaders of “sub I” school for our popular fourth year elective; Annual “bootcamp” with the matched MS4s

Resident teaching: Ryan rotations (R1 and R3), visiting residents from outside programs, research collaboration and mentorship opportunities; teaching in the OR; direct teaching in resident didactics; training family medicine residents during rotations

Outside opportunities: didactic and lectures within masters programs for genetic counseling as well as within the School of Public Health; high school teaching opportunities, cross-discipline education trainings