Fellowship in Emergency Medicine Medical Education

Overview

The Harvard-Affiliated Emergency Medicine Education Fellowship provides participants with training in instructional design and education research methods complemented by supervised research experiences to develop a strong foundation to pursue leadership positions in the fields of educational research, leadership, and administration. Fellows will be exposed to the medical education expertise at both Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) during their two years. Local mentors include the fellowship director, faculty from the HAEMR education leadership team, HMS clerkship directors, the MGH Learning Lab, the BWH STRATUS Center for Simulation, and EM faculty from both MGH and BWH. Training will incorporate a common core of study in research and teaching methodology through the MGH Institute of Health Professions Education Master’s Program (MHPE) as well as introduction to both UME education administration through the HMS EM clerkships and GME education administration through the joint MGH-BWH EM Residency.

One of the primary expectations of the fellowship is for the fellow to design and execute one or more educational research projects in an area of interest. The fellow will also learn issues related to program administration, including ACGME requirements, curriculum development, competency-based education and assessment, and reporting requirements. The fellowship director, Eric Shappell, MD, MHPE, is committed to helping fellows define and explore their academic niche(s) such that their unique interests will help to shape their fellowship curricula through a series of longitudinal immersion experiences in research, teaching, and education. Our fellows will work with mentors to identify literature relevant to their area of interest and develop project(s) with the aid of local and national resources for education.

Both year 1 and year 2 will consist of a series of immersion experiences that include exposure to teaching and didactics, program administration, and research methods. Year 2 will be more intensively focused on the trainee’s unique area(s) of interest and research developed during the first year. The fellowship director meets with trainees every 2 weeks to ensure that the experience is maximized and includes educational and research opportunities most suited to developing the fellow’s academic career.

Curriculum

Education Training

• At the start of the fellowship, the fellow will be given focused training in a bootcamp fashion to ensure they are on-boarded as quickly as possible. This will include, but not be limited to, IRB training and certification, review of local faculty development resources (CFD, HMS Academy), assistance with mentor selection, scheduling of mentorship meetings for the first year, and meetings with key education faculty.
• Masters of science in health professions education (MHPE) through the MGH Institute of Health Professions Education (required core).
• Focused mentorship by the residency Program Director and Associate Program Directors at education team meetings regarding residency program administration (required core).
• Mentorship meetings with the Fellowship Director every 2 weeks to review educational research projects, teaching portfolio development, and career goals (required core).
• Annual attendance at the Council of Residency Directors (CORD) national conference (required core).
• Participation in the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) ARMED MedEd course (required core).
• Emergency Medicine-specific in education research through the CORD Medical education research certificate training (MERC at CORD) (optional).
• Training in the practice of teaching and curriculum design through the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) Teaching Fellowship (optional).
• National meeting attendance at one or more of the following: American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP); Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) (optional).
• The MHPE degree and attendance of any required conferences (including travel) will be funded by the fellowship.

Education Projects/Portfolio Development

• Educational manuscript submission and abstract presentations at one or more national meetings (e.g., CORD, ACEP, SAEM, AAMC) (required core).
• Teaching portfolio development, including lectures, simulation training, formative and summative assessment, and direct observation (required core).
• Creation of educational innovations through the HAEMR residency and HMS clerkship opportunities (optional).
• Creation of on-line and/or podcast learning materials if applicable to area of interest (optional).

Educational Program Administration

• The fellow will receive training in educational administration. They will be provided exposure to the administrative activities of an assistant residency director through attendance at HAEMR leadership meetings, participation in residency curriculum development, and semi-annual Clinical Competency Committee (CCC) meetings (required core).

Resources

In addition to masters training in the MHPE program, the fellows are invited to take advantage of the following local resources to develop scholarship including but not limited to the following:

• HMS Medical Education Research Day
• HMS Education Academy
• Center for Faculty Development
• The MGH Center for Education Innovation and Scholarship
• Participation in MGH Departmental Simulation Officer meetings

How to Apply

Requirements

• Cover letter
• Curriculum vitae
• Two (2) Letters of recommendation, including one (1) from current program director or direct supervisor.
• ABEM board-eligible or board-certified and able to practice clinical emergency medicine in Massachusetts if selected.

Email the required materials to the fellowship director (Eric Shappell MD MHPE, eshappell@mgh.harvard.edu) and fellowship coordinator (Kate Baxter, kbaxter1@mgb.org)

Timeline

Applications must be received by the last Friday in August (August 28, 2026)
Interview invitations will be sent in the first two weeks of September
Interview date (virtual only): September 24, 2026 from 9:30am-2:00pm pm Eastern

Fellowship Faculty

Director

Eric Shappell, MD, MHPE, Email: eshappell@mgh.harvard.edu

Coordinator

Kate Baxter Email: kbaxter1@mgb.org