Clinician Educator Track
Clinician Educator Track
Have a heart for teaching? This track may be for you, if... you find yourself teaching students when you could be writing notes on wards, if you find yourself daydreaming in clinic about delivering your own amazing "chalk talk," and if you want medical education to be a major focus of your career.
Specifically, the goal of the track is to equip residents with the tools necessary for clinician-educator roles and connect them with a community of faculty clinician-educators.
For any questions about this track, please e-mail kaitlyn.shrake@uky.edu or kristen.fletcher@uky.edu.
Track Description
Through the clinician educator track, residents will learn a variety of skills, including how to plan teaching sessions, how to manage the learning climate, how to set expectations and give feedback, and how to assess progress. Track residents work at their own pace one-on-one with experienced clinician-educator mentors to complete four projects:
- Plan and facilitate a large group teaching session
- Plan and facilitate a small group teaching session
- Teach in a clinical setting
- Design a curriculum intervention
In addition to the skills obtained through these four projects, residents on this track will assemble a teaching portfolio prior to graduation. Upon completion of the track, graduates receive a certificate in medical education.
Enrollment in the track is by application at the beginning of internal medicine PGY-2 or med-peds PGY-3. Calls for application are typically in July-August each year.
CE Track Co-Director Kristen Fletcher, MD
Dr. Fletcher is an academic hospitalist at the Lexington Veterans Affairs Medical Center who infuses her passion for medical education into her 20 or more weeks of clinical teaching annually. She loves micro-education, developing resident physicians into the best versions of themselves, and she loves strengthening the community aspect of the clinician educator track!
She completed her residency at UK and solidified her love of academics during her internal medicine chief residency. In addition to finding joy in medicine, she finds joy in "dance parties" with her two children, watching her husband rap to Hamilton music, and going on a gorgeous 5K run in the Bluegrass.
CE Track Co-Director Kate Shrake, MD
Dr. Shrake is a Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine specialist and Core Faculty member for the IM Residency Program. She coordinates resident subspecialty education in her field and has a deep-seated passion for medical education and teaching. She loves creating new curricula to fill educational gaps and is particularly invested in making content fun, engaging, and memorable. In addition to her work in provider-facing education, she also invests herself in patient education and is always looking for ways to improve health literacy on both on a 1:1 and large audience basis.
Kate is from Ohio and now happily calls Kentucky home. She has had the privilege of training at many excellent programs, including IM Residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and PCCM Fellowship at The Ohio State University. When not at work, she loves playing with and training her dog, experimenting with craft projects in many forms, and wandering the wooded trails near her house.
Senior CE Track Residents
