AACOM/UNC Sheps Center GME Development Fellowship
About the Fellowship
The Graduate Medical Education (GME) Development Fellowship is an innovative partnership between AACOM and the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill Sheps Center for Health Services Research designed to foster leaders in GME development. Through this 10-month interactive program, attendees will learn the latest on GME development strategies, collaborate with national experts and craft capstone projects on GME development to support their institutions.
This 10-month fellowship will consist of monthly 1.5 hr interactive virtual learning sessions and will pair fellows with GME experts to serve as mentors. Fellows must work with their mentor to compose their own capstone project in GME development, which will be submitted as a presentation at AACOM’s Educating Leaders 2025 conference. To receive certification of completion of the fellowship, participants must attend at least 80% of the sessions.
Cost
This program cost is $5,000. For the pilot year, AACOM will sponsor the program cost for any AACOM member college of osteopathic medicine (COMs) who meets the minimum attendance requirement. All other organizations (proposed COMs, GME programs, etc.) will pay the $5,000 registration fee.
Potential Education Topics
- Intro to GME Development – Site assessment, timeline, strategy, getting started, roadmap, stories of GME programs launching.
- Value of GME (why start GME)
- Create learning community.
- Resources for GME development
- GME Finance: Beyond the Basics
- Grant Writing and Funding
- State GME Initiatives / Medicaid GME
- Governance/Partnerships
- Teaching Health Center GME 101 (requirements, structure, funding)
- Rural GME or Rural Track Training Programs (RTPs) 101 (structures, funding, prime rural hospitals)
- Sponsoring Institutions and Consortia
- Innovative GME Partnerships – Tribal, Veterans Affairs, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs)
- Program Accreditation – Family Medicine and High Demand/Rural Residency Planning and Development (RRPD) Specialties (2 sessions)
- GME Development Case Studies
Application Information
Deadline to submit an application is September 13th, 2024, by 11:59 PM ET.
Questions? Contact gme-initiatives@aacom.org