MASTER TEACHER FELLOWSHIP

The Master Teacher Fellowship is a two-year program aimed at developing faculty to take leadership roles in developing competency-based education in community- and university-based settings. This full-time, onsite fellowship focuses on effective teaching skills, competency-based curriculum development, distance-learning, creation of the patient-centered medical home, and the practice and teaching of information mastery.

The Fellowship also incorporates a Masters in Medical Education via distance learning from the University of Dundee, Scotland.

Time Allotment
All Fellows will maintain a clinical practice in our family medicine center, working alongside residents and faculty members. Time allotment is as follows:

Clinical teaching consists of precepting residents and students, supervised at first, and then independently. Fellows also have the opportunity to provide formal lectures and small group teaching of residents and students.

Clinical practice includes a patient panel, inpatient teaching, and, if interested, maternity care (all Fellows provide prenatal care).

The Fellows weekly seminars are coordinated with the Masters of Medical Education. A typical seminar starts with a facilitated discussion of that week's Masters unit. The second half of the seminar focuses on other educational topics not covered in the Masters program, such as information mastery, media training, and others. The third hour is a work session on a curriculum innovation, project development, presentation preparation, or other practical issue.