Building a Stronger Foundation: Goal Setting and Design Strategies for Clinical Fellowship Programs

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Session Type: Concurrent Sessions

Session Capacity: N/A

Hotel: N/A

Room: Franciscan C

Floor: Ballroom Level

Clinical teaching fellowships and practitioner programs are proliferating, providing necessary support to clinical programs, training new clinicians, and bringing practitioners into the classroom. The hope of these programs is to deepen and diversify our clinical faculty. However, limited resources (time, funding, bandwidth, etc.) and conflicting goals can hinder the aspirations of the training programs. In this concurrent session we will focus on multi-level goal setting within fellowship programs. We will bring together senior clinicians responsible for creation of programs/training fellows, junior professors beginning to mentor fellows, experienced fellows taking the next academic step, and new fellows beginning their academic careers. We will discuss fellowship programs as means of supporting and diversifying clinical programs and law schools, as means of launching the careers of new clinicians, and as a means of meeting the needs of the new fellows. We will structure this program to include framing by the panelists, small groups discussing different perspectives on the programs, and time to compare and discuss concrete considerations in fellowship program development. Participants will take away a list of recommendations/ideas and a framework for goal setting informed by backwards design principles.