Optional Professional Enrichment

GME Scholars Program-Medical Education Track AND Healthcare Administration Track:  The University of Michigan GME Scholars Program in Medical Education or Healthcare Administration is a 20 month educational experience specifically designed for house officers interested in pursuing an academic career in Medical Education or Healthcare Administration.  The primary goal of these programs is to better prepare graduates to assume and succeed in an academic position with a focus in Medical Education or Healthcare Administration at a leading academic medical center.  Graduates of the programs would have begun to develop the knowledge base and skill set required for them to be successful as the next generation of physician leaders. Additionally, the programs would allow participants to establish a network for future collaboration.

The curricular objectives will be accomplished via the use of pre-requisite readings, small group seminar style didactics, expert panel discussions, workshops, and assigned projects.   Each participant will be expected to identify an issue relevant to his/her interests and activities and develop an individual project.  Participants will be paired with an appropriate mentor based on their specific interest.  This project will provide the scholar with an opportunity to apply the principles, skills and methods acquired in the program.  The completed projects will be expected to be of a quality that will lead to publication in an appropriate relevant journal.  The completed projects will be presented at a final program seminar and will be submitted to a relevant regional or national meeting. 

Further details of the programs can be viewed at:

Women's Mentorship Group: organized by women faculty. Quarterly gatherings of the women faculty and residents with the purpose of providing a forum for discussion of challenges and issues facing women in the workplace and the balance of work and personal life.

Literature in Medicine: organized by a Emergency Medicine faculty member. Bi-monthly gatherings of interested residents and faculty to discuss non-scientific literature which relates to a medicine topic or to the practice of medicine.

Attendance at regional and national meetings: each resident is given the opportunity to attend the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) national conference once during their residency usually in the EM1 or EM2 year.

The UMHS/SJMH Emergency Medicine Residents' Association (EMRA) representative will be permitted to attend one conference per academic year where EMRA is conducting a meeting which requires the representative's attendance.

Additional funds are provided to support resident research projects and presentation of original research at conferences and seminars.

Making our voices heard at ACEP in Washington in 2005