Leadership in Medical Education

What is the LMEP?

How to Apply

Please check the Leadership in Medical Education Pathway in ERAS. After review of your application, you may receive a supplementary application from our Residency Coordinator which assesses your passion, interest and experiences.

If selected, you will be invited to interview for the LMEP. Please refer to Application Process for further information.

The MetroHealth Leadership in Medical Education Pathway (LMEP) is a 3-year training opportunity offered in partnership with University Hospitals of Cleveland (Internal Medicine, Psychiatry, and Neurology Residency Programs) and the Case Western Reserve University Weatherhead School of Management. In July 2019, we matriculated our first class of two interns, with the goal of providing longitudinal exposure to and training in fundamental aspects of medical education. 

The specific aim of this pathway is to prepare internists for successful careers as clinician-educators, either as generalists or as subspecialists. All MetroHealth residents have abundant opportunities to teach medical students and eventually interns. The LMEP is designed to provide intensive instruction in the principles of adult learning theory and scholarship in teaching while providing mentorship to apply the principles in very practical settings.

Residents in the LMEP are in categorical training, with the expectation that a modest amount of elective time will be devoted to LMEP activities.

Successful completion will result in graduation with a Leadership in Medical Education certificate jointly awarded by MetroHealth, University Hospitals of Cleveland, and the Weatherhead School of Management.

 

  • Achieve basic mastery of the principles of assessment in medical education.
  • Show proficiency in delivering and receiving feedback.
  • Serve as instructors at the student and residency levels.
  • Develop expertise in interactive, small-group teaching.
  • Gain skills in delivering effective large-group lectures.
  • Develop competence in effective emotional intelligence.
  • Achieve competency in curricular design.
  • Understand important tenets of adult learning theory.
  • Participate in educational innovation.

  • Monthly LME conferences including curriculum development, effective use of feedback, adult learning theory, creating an effective PowerPoint presentation, etc. Some of these conferences will occur at University Hospitals of Cleveland (virtually, and present), and others at MetroHealth.
  • Involvement in undergraduate medical education leadership roles, e.g., serving as physical diagnosis preceptors, organized bedside rounding with medical students, organizing/leading medical student lecture series.
  • Leadership in residency education, including the conduct of morning report and the delivery of noon didactics.
  • Attend the Harvard Principles of Medical Education conference during PGY-2 year. Find dates and deadlines for the conference.
  • Participation in a series of 4 full-day courses at the Weatherhead School of Management during PGY-3 year, covering topics such as fundamentals of emotional intelligence, leading through emotional intelligence, principles of negotiation, and successfully implementing change.
  • Designing, implementing and assessing a medical education innovation.  The innovation will be resident-led with faculty mentorship, with the goal of presenting at a national conference such as Alliance for Academic Medicine/Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (AAIM/APDIM) or Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM).

I look forward to meeting you!

William T. Petro II, M.D., Assistant Director

Marianne Reeves, Ph.D., Senior Medical Educator