Faculty Development Fellowships
Learning for Leadership
website: cfmfacdev.mc.duke.edu
Preparing tomorrow's clinical leaders today to navigate the changing health care environment. This one-year fellowship helps launch today's primary care physicians into successful leadership positions in academic and clinical settings. At three sites throughout North Carolina, these physicians learn the practical, essential skills for becoming highly effective leaders and teachers in their community.
Creating new leadership through innovative, flexible learning
As one of the oldest and most respected teaching fellowships in the country, Duke Faculty Development Fellowships are a one-year, full-time program for primary care physicians who want to take on leadership roles in their community. The Fellowship combines longitudinal seminars, other courses, readings, communication activities, projects, observation and feedback with ongoing mentoring by senior faculty that provide graduates with skills to become highly effective leaders and clinical teachers.
Since the program began in 1979, it has evolved to reflect the changing nature of medicine. Instead of one core program, the fellowship is a flexible, decentralized model that lays the groundwork with a central set of teaching and administrative skills and allows participants to focus on a particular area of interest. Fellows are also engaged in clinical practice at one of three sites. Note that one fellow is dedicated to each site and participates fully in the practice.
Duke Family Medicine
The primary practice for Duke Faculty Medicine Residency program, this large teaching practice is on the Duke Medical Center campus in Durham. With a mostly managed care patient base, the practice actively pursues ways to maximize success in the new health care environment.
Structured for maximum learning opportunities
The fellowships combine structured curriculum, one-on-one faculty instruction, group activities, independent investigation and experiential learning to prepare graduates to become effective teachers and leaders in primary care.
All fellows receive the core set of teaching and administrative skills that have been determined essential in primary care faculty roles. The courses emphasize the particular skills needed to compete effectively in health care and managed care arenas. This training includes preparation in teaching and administration skills.
Fellows are required to complete two specific projects during the fellowship year. If the fellow has particular interests in certain areas, including community health, medical student education, clinical informatics or obstetrics, they may elect to develop their projects around these areas, with approval from faculty. All areas of interest and specific activities are negotiated on an individual basis. One in each area:
- Curriculum, a written curriculum guide on a specific topic that can be used in a residency program, medical school or other health-related program.
- Administrative, where an administrative issue is analyzed and a plan developed, which includes identifying causes, solution, testing, evaluating, revising and implementing a final plan of action.
Fellows are also actively involved in supervised teaching activities. Teaching activities may include:
- Precepting residents enrolled in the primary care residency program. This includes co-precepting with an experienced faculty member, along with capturing the activities on audio or videotape for review and feedback.
- Teaching four conferences: two at Duke Family Medicine and two at one of the other two sites.
- Small group teaching
Other components of the fellowship include tutorials that emphasize the socialization of fellows into the culture of academic medicine and understanding of the organizational culture. This is a longitudinal process that involves activities that foster personal reflection and organizational analysis, all under the guidance of key faculty. Another component is the opportunity to attend faculty meetings at their clinical site.
Offering salary and benefits
Eligible fellows receive faculty appointments at the level of Clinical Associate in the Department of Community and Family Medicine. Salaries vary by clinical site, level of experience and activities. Other benefits include three weeks paid vacation, conference time, 12 days sick leave, health insurance and professional liability coverage.
For more information:
Visit our website at http://cfmfacdev.mc.duke.edu/Index.html or email us at kate.holeman@duke.edu
Faculty Development Fellowships
Duke University Medical Center & Health System
Department of Community & Family Medicine
Division of Community Health
DUMC 2914
Durham, NC 27710
phone: (919) 681-9864
fax: (919) 681-3371
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