Medical Education Fellowship

The Department of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University is excited to recruit up to three fellows for its two-year Medical Education and Scholarship Fellowship. The fellowship program is open to graduating emergency medicine residents for the upcoming 2025-2027 academic fellowship cycle.

Our intensive fellowship is geared for residents seeking advanced training in medical education scholarship, pedagogy and learning theory, instructional design, and medical simulation. The goal of the fellowship is to prepare fellows for a highly successful career as an educational leader in academic emergency medicine and beyond. Previous graduates have secured positions as clerkship directors, program directors, and academic leaders in medical schools across the country.

Informed by the principles of experiential learning, transformative learning, and self-directed learning, the fellowship offers prospective fellows the skillset to adapt to an ever-changing learning environment and educational landscape in the health professions. In the first year of fellowship, fellows will be immersed in a structured curriculum with educational experiences that span undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education, and continuous professional development. In the second year, fellows will identify a specific area of academic interest in the realm of education, and will be given the resources and time to develop their productivity within this specified domain. Previous fellows have spent their second year of fellowship as assistant residency program directors, assistant clerkship directors, and/or assistant directors of medical simulation. By the completion of fellowship, fellows will have developed a robust and competitive educational portfolio.

Through formalized training, fellows will receive the requisite skills to design and implement independent research projects employing quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods. They will collaborate on research projects within the Department of Emergency and the Sidney Kimmel Medical College, and they will receive the support to present their work at multiple national conferences over the course of their two years at Jefferson.

Fellows will attend the annual ACEP Teaching Fellowship, as well as pursue formalized study in education through a Masters Program in Health Professions Education offered locally through Thomas Jefferson University’s College of Health Professions or at another institution of choice (based on plans discussed with the fellowship director at the time of matriculation).

Fellows will work clinically as faculty (attending) physicians in the emergency departments of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Jefferson’s Methodist Hospital.

Fellows will contribute to weekly EM residency conference in various capacities including lectures, simulation, and cadaver lab instruction. The fellows will also attend monthly GME meetings, Clinical Competency Committee (CCC) meetings, Program Evaluation Committee (PEC) meetings, residency recruitment processes, and intern orientation.

Applicants: Graduates of an ACGME-accredited  Emergency Medicine Residency Program

Duration: Two (2) academic years

Number of Fellows: 2-3

Clinical Shifts: 72 clinical hours per month

Salary & Benefits: Competitive salary with full benefits

• Advanced degree options to pursue a Masters in Health Professions Education
• Teaching Fellowship, conference attendance, travel costs, society memberships