The Weill Cornell Medicine Clinical Scholars Program (CSP) is a one-year, intensive faculty development program that aims to foster academic success and personal growth for hospitalists and general internists who are committed to becoming leaders in academic medicine. Although there is a common curriculum, each participant also formulates a uniquely tailored curriculum that fits their personal academic interests.
The one-year program ignites the potential of highly motivated new faculty, generates momentum in scholarly productivity and provides tools to lead change
The goal of the CSP is to cultivate faculty with adaptive expertise who both explore new concepts and invent new solutions.
Program Overview
The program focuses on developing skills in foundational areas of academic medicine: clinical teaching, clinical epidemiology and advanced evidence-based medicine, quality improvement and patient safety, academic writing, and leadership. There is an emphasis on how best to teach physical diagnosis and clinical reasoning and how to properly evaluate and incorporate research evidence into clinical decision-making. For hospitalists, the program also helps assure proficiency in bedside ultrasound, a diagnostic modality that most hospitalists are now expected to master. Additionally, there are introductory seminars on research methods and research collaboration, medical ethics, resiliency training, communication, and humanism in medicine. There is longitudinal peer coaching and group peer mentoring to foster self-reflection, strengths identification, values clarification, career planning, goal-setting and feedback for deliberate practice and development of expertise. During the second half of the year, participants will identify an area of academic focus and build a strong mentoring team.
This is a one-year program that includes:
- Nine weeks of interactive small-group skills development
- Four weeks of vacation and holidays
- 20–24 weeks of clinical work as hospitalist (primarily days but some nights)
- Longitudinal peer coaching and facilitated group peer mentoring
Each clinical scholar is expected to collaborate on at least one publication during the year and complete an educator portfolio, POCUS image portfolio, and a proposal for a scholarly project by the end of the year. For those wanting to focus on clinical research, there are opportunities for additional training in research methods, epidemiology, and advanced data analysis during years two and three. Other expectations include teaching students and residents in clinical medicine, physical diagnosis, evidence-based medicine, clinical reasoning, and bedside ultrasound.
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