ChristianaCare has created several unique training experiences in multiple domains for residents and fellows to explore critical topics that enhance and compliment the training they receive in their individual programs.
Quality and Safety
Residents and fellows have opportunities to take part in interdepartmental learning experiences around quality and safety that include:
- Resident/Fellow Quality and Safety Council: Each program selects a resident/fellow and faculty dyad to discuss the event reporting climate and present solutions to safety concerns in an effort to improve the patient safety culture.
- Resident/Fellow Quality and Safety Journal Club: A quarterly resident/fellow led discussion of a pertinent article highlighting evidence-based opportunities in improving quality and safety in the learning environment.
- Achieving Competency Today (ACT): Issues in Quality, Cost, Systems and Safety: 12 weeks master’s level interdisciplinary curriculum for systems-based practice and practice-based learning and improvement. Interprofessional teams of learners collaboratively design and test solutions to identified challenges in healthcare delivery through an improvement project.
Resident Research
SMART RESEARCH (Support, Mentorship, And Resident Training in RESEARCH)
This program provides participants with an infrastructure and core content on research methodologies, with the goal of completing an institutional review board (IRB) ready research protocol by the end of the series. This curriculum will provide didactic and workshop-based activities to walk participants through the fundamental components of a protocol, from the research question and literature review, crafting an analysis plan, and writing up and presenting results.
Resources
Within Academic Affairs, a research team, consisting of a full-time Research Associate and Biostatistician, is available to support you in completing your research projects during your training time at ChristianaCare.
Academic Affairs hosts an annual research symposium showcasing resident and fellow scholarly activities to highlight research excellence at ChristianaCare.
Global Health
Global health education is available to residents regardless of specialty through a variety of multidisciplinary events and the option to join an elective distinction track. Participants in the track attend a series of dinner meetings including didactic teaching and peer discussions which follow a rotating longitudinal curriculum; sessions are held every other month. Guest lecturers and faculty from across departments are invited as speakers.
Other events include an ongoing case discussion series with trainees in Tanzania, skills workshops, and resident presentations. There are additional opportunities for cultural interchange through hosting medical students visiting from India. To complete the track and graduate with distinction, residents must attend two years of teaching sessions, as well as complete an international or underserved rotation and present a capstone talk to impart their experiences and teach the group.
The goals specific to our program are:
- Provide practical public health and clinical perspectives on the management of health issues and diseases in resource-poor settings
- Train residents to provide culturally competent, patient-centered care for disease management and health promotion
- Teach residents to recognize and address the impact of social, economic, environmental, and geopolitical factors on health disparities, both abroad and in the U.S.
- Promote skills in population-based research and community-oriented primary care
- Inspire humility, compassion, and a service-oriented mindset in the next generation of physician leaders
Local partnerships include the Delaware Health Science Alliance, Delaware Academy of Family Physicians, Delaware Academy of Medicine, Nemours Children’s Health, and Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University. Active global partnership sites include institutions in India, Dominican Republic, and Tanzania.
Please visit https://residency.christianacare.org/med-peds/global-health for more information.
Leadership Development with LEED-R
LEED-R, also known as Leadership Excellence EDucation for Residents/Fellows, is a two-week intensive, interdisciplinary program to develop the skills and tools to be an effective and efficient physician leader in health care now and in the future.
The LEED-R program includes a two-week block of protected time for intensive leadership development for a select group of 25 residents/fellows each year using the National Center for Healthcare Leadership competencies incorporating multiple platforms of learning and interaction with ChristianaCare leadership and outside experts on:
- Self-Awareness & Leadership.
- Develops People & Creates High Performance Teams.
- Collaborates & Builds Relationships.
- Enables Learning & Innovation.
- Leads & Promotes Change.
- Creates Value.
Highlights include connecting with an array of system leaders, working with professional media coaches and journalists on presentation skills, and interacting with leaders in the community.