Critical Care Medicine department hosts first joint education week for fellows
Episode # 85
Uploaded: January 25, 2012
Running Time: 02:46
CROWN: From the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, this is CLINICAL CENTER RADIO.
More than 30 fellows from NIH, Washington Hospital Center, National Military Consortium, University of Maryland, and Johns Hopkins participated in the Clinical Center’s first joint critical care education week hosted by the Critical Care Medicine Department and the Washington Hospital Center, January 9 - 13.
The education week supports the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education’s goals by having fellows focus on didactic training and career strategies, as well as emphasizing mentorship and peer-to-peer interaction. Dr. Henry Masur, chief of CC’s Critical Care Medicine Department says:
MASUR: We’re obviously focusing on academic careers, so we bring in alumni … and have these alumni explain to them how they’ve been successful in their careers. We also bring in people who will help the fellows understand how to apply for grants, how to look for jobs, how to learn management and business techniques. We want to open their eyes to a larger horizon about not just what they need to know about how to take care of patient or where they do their research, but where should they be headed and how do they get there.
CROWN: The fellows rotated through various training sites, including spending several days at the Clinical Center. First-year fellow Kenneth Remy said he took advantage of meeting several of the week’s speakers, who are well known people in the research field he’s entering.
REMY: It solidifies a lot of the stuff that we’ve done over the past five months or so. You see highly successful people that have established academic careers or other careers that are not in the academic arena. You see the blueprint which they’ve used and it makes you step back a little and think about where you are going.
CROWN: Other fellows, such as Seun Falade, said they appreciated the practical tips, such as managing a career and personal life.
FALADE: Things that we don’t necessarily learn in medical school and fellowship; stuff like time management, how to figure out what you want to do with the rest of your life, and work / life balance. These issues that come up in weeks like this which give you further forethought, and I think play a large role in just how successful we are.
CROWN: From America's Clinical Research Hospital, this has been CLINICAL CENTER RADIO. In Bethesda, Maryland, I'm Ellen Crown, at the National Institutes of Health, an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
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