Overview

The Master Teacher Fellowship is a two-year program aimed at developing faculty to take leadership roles in creating 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.

Coursework

The Masters coursework consists of assignments and projects in five core areas:

Teaching and learning Curriculum planning Principles of assessment

Education management and leadership Medical Education research

In addition, Fellows may pick a number of optional areas for exploration and learning, including:

E-learning Educational support Clinical teaching Teaching clinical reasoning

Curriculum development and evaluation Work-based assessment Teaching professionalism

Time Allotment

All Fellows will maintain a clinical practice in our CHA Malden Family Medicine Center, working alongside residents and faculty members. Fellows spend approximately 30% of their time in clinical practice, with the balance of their time spent in teaching and learning activities.

A typical week of a Fellow looks like this:

Day	Morning	Afternoon
Monday	Independent study	Fellowship seminar
Tuesday	Patient care	Patient Care
Wednesday	Precepting residents	Independent study
Thursday	Independent study	Patient care
Friday	Independent study	Precepting residents

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 and inpatient teaching.

The Fellows weekly seminars are coordinated with the Masters of Medical Education curriculum. A typical seminar starts with a facilitated discussion of that week's Masters chapter. 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, and other practical issues.