MacNeal Family Medicine Faculty Development Fellowship
The MacNeal Family Medicine Faculty Development Fellowship program at Loyola Medicine was developed in 2002 to address a perceived need for increasing fellowship-trained family physician faculty, especially in community hospital-based programs.
We welcomed our first fellow in July of 2003. Since its inception, eleven fellows have completed the fellowship.
Program Curriculum
The fellowship curriculum covers four areas: clinical skills, teaching skills, administrative skills, and scholarly activity skills.
Clinical Skills
The fellow sees patients in our Family Medicine Center two half days a week and is asked to identify one or two clinical areas that he/she want to further enhance or acquire new during the fellowship. Time is scheduled during the fellowship until competency is met in these areas. There is also the opportunity to do house calls through our house call program. For those interested in doing obstetrics, longitudinal experience includes prenatal care with the possibility of attending deliveries.
Teaching Skills
Seminars, with topic-specific goals and objectives and relevant readings, occur one to two times a month throughout the fellowship. Teaching skills, including hands-on observed and videotaped precepting, are focused on in the first few months to permit inclusion of the fellow into having his/her own half-day precepting slots four times a week. The fellow will also serve as attending on our family medicine service for several weeks a year. The fellow will also be required to be involved periodically in presenting sessions during the Protected Learning Time that our residents have two half days every 4 week block.
Administrative Skills
Seminars on various relevant topics are augmented by having the fellow participate in our weekly faculty meetings, overseeing an area of the curriculum, being a member of one of our CCCs (clinical competence committees) and participating in our Annual Program Review.
Scholarly Activity Skills
Fellows doing the one-year fellowship are expected to make significant progress on a scholarly activity project during their fellowship. They are also members of our Scholarly Activity Committee (SAC) that meets regularly throughout the year to advise residents on their scholarly activity and quality improvement topics.
Eligibility
The applicant must be a board-certified graduate of an approved family medicine residency program and have an interest in teaching in family medicine. We currently don’t sponsor visas.
Stipend
The fellowship offers a stipend and benefits that are highly competitive with other fellowship programs.
For additional information and application instructions, contact:
Edward C. Foley, MD, MPH
Program Director
MacNeal Family Medicine Residency Program
3231 S. Euclid Avenue, 5th Floor
Berwyn, IL 60402
Phone: 708-783-3506
Email: Edward.Foley@lumc.edu