Emergency Medicine Education

Fellows are encouraged to choose one of the following tracks:

1. Digital Media and Technology – work with Dr. Jessie Werner from EM:RAP on digital publications. Optional activities in this track include:

• Produce, write, record, and edit a podcast segment for EM:RAP
• Learn to use the equipment needed to record audio and/or video for medical education.

2. Assistant Clerkship Director – work side-by-side with Dr. Scott Reichelderfer , our Clerkship Director, in running our medical student rotations. During a typical year 70+ students from all over the country rotate through our department, seeking a high yield clinical and educational experience.

• Advise and mentor students applying to Emergency Medicine. 
• Delve into the challenges of grading, evaluation, and writing eSLOEs.
• Design and implement curricula for the rotating medical students.

3. Assistant Program Director – work with Residency Program Director Dr. Rawnie Ruegner and the residency leadership team as an APD, learning the ropes of graduate medical education and running a residency.

• Learn how to structure and build a residency curriculum.
  • Recruit and evaluate medical student applicants                                                   
  • Participate in the Clinical Competency Committee (CCC).
  • Advise and evaluate Emergency Medicine residents.

4. Build your own track!                                                                  

• We can help you structure your own educational objectives to suit your individual interests.
• Our faculty will help you define your goals and pair you with mentors to guide you towards success.

• Education fellowship meetings
  • Fellows will meet with the education faculty regularly to discuss projects, work towards career goals, and build mentoring relationships.
  • Fellows lead a bimonthly journal club on topics of their choosing.
  • The Scholarly Projects in Education Council (SPEC) meets bimonthly to discuss educational projects, and provide guidance and support.
• ACEP Teaching Fellowship
  • Education fellows are funded to attend this two-part teaching fellowship in Dallas, Texas, specifically designed for Emergency Medicine educators.  This program results in a certificate, and allows you to meet, learn from, and build relationships with colleagues from across the country, including luminaries of EM education.
• UCSF Health Professions Education Pathway
  • Fellows can opt into this one month intensive program in San Francisco for an interdisciplinary approach to fundamentals of medical education, including bedside teaching, curricular development, and education research. The HPE program provides the opportunity to build relationships with UCSF educators and to present your project at their spring symposium.
• UCSF Fresno Education Symposium
  • Fellows will present their scholarly work and progress of their educational projects at this annual event.

Our Emergency Medicine residency program was founded in 1974 and is one of the oldest and most respected in the country. We serve a large and diverse patient population from urban, suburban, rural and wilderness settings in California’s Central Valley. Our ED at Community Regional Medical Center serves >150,000 patients per year, and we see the highest volume of trauma patients of any Level 1 Trauma Center in California.

Fresno is the 5th largest city in California. We’ve got plenty of sunshine and entertainment. We have great options for dining, shopping, theater, concerts, and of course, the outdoors. We are a short drive from three national parks – Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon. Several of California’s destination lakes and rivers are in close proximity. We are halfway between Los Angeles and Sacramento and many of the most sought-after destinations of California are a short drive or weekend trip distance away.

Learn more about Fresno here:

http://www.playfresno.org/ 

https://www.visitcalifornia.com/au/attraction/fresno 

http://www.gofresnocounty.com/