RELA is an 18-month longitudinal education and leadership program for rural faculty who wish to enhance their medical education teaching and leadership skills to become local rural education leaders.
Objective:
Provide rural faculty with the knowledge, skills and competence to be local leaders and advocates for graduate medical education in their communities.
Goals:
- Participants will graduate the program with:
- Graduate medical education literacy
- Skills to complete a medical education scholarly project
- Be part of a rural learning community and connect with other medical education leaders in the state
- Tools to advance academic careers
Structure and Learning Community:
- The RELA cohort will include 8 physician faculty and 2 interprofessional faculty
- The course will include 10-12 seminars over 18 months gaining education in:
- medical education, leadership, clinical teaching, feedback and evaluation, basic tools to complete a scholarly medical education project, with special focus on rural competencies and DEI training
- Participants will have a formal mentorship. During this time, all participants will complete and disseminate an education scholarly project.
- RELA will provide $10,000 for salary support to release faculty from clinical duties ~5%
Applications:
In order to apply, please contact us HERE to request an application form.
Applications for the 2023-2024 RELA cohort are due May 12th, 2023.
