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Faculty Education Fellowship in Medical Humanism & Professionalism

The Faculty Education Fellowship in Medical Humanism and Professionalism began at Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School in 2013. The overarching goal for the Faculty Education Fellowship is to improve faculty teaching effectiveness and role modeling in humanism and professionalism, and to develop faculty committed to mitigating the effects of the hidden curriculum, promoting humanistic values in teaching and learning environments, and to serve as positive influences on the institutional culture in these areas.

 

Boston Children’s Hospital was one of 8 national sites, and the first pediatric site, to implement curricula for humanism and professionalism for faculty, starting in 2013 – as part of the Passing the Torch: Fostering Medical Humanism Through Faculty Role Models ongoing faculty development project. The program at Boston Children’s is unique in that we created an innovative 1-year Faculty Education Fellowship, rather than a course.

 

Award

Project and curriculum won the ABIM Foundation John A. Benson Jr., MD Professionalism Article Research Prize from the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation, April 2018.

 

Faculty Education Fellows 1st cohort

Fellowship Director

Elizabeth A. Rider, MSW, MD, FAAP, FACH

Director of Academic Programs, Institute for Professionalism and Ethical Practice

Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics

Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

 

Fellowship sponsors at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) (in kind)

    • Office of Faculty Development
    • Office of Graduate Medical Education (GME)
    • The Institute for Professionalism and Ethical Practice, BCH
    • BCH Academy for Teaching and Educational Innovation and Scholarship
    • Department of Medical Education

Participating national sitesFaculty Education Fellows with Dr Branch

    • Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School
    • Stanford University School of Medicine
    • Medical College of Wisconsin
    • Indiana University School of Medicine
    • University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, School of Medicine
    • University of Virginia School of Medicine
    • University of Colorado School of Medicine
    • Yale School of Medicine

Acknowledgments

We gratefully acknowledge the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation and the Arnold P. Gold Foundation for funding part of this work.