A unique opportunity for first year medical students introducing skills and experiences necessary to succeed in the challenging health care environment of tomorrow.
Program Components The program duration is six weeks and is designed to prepare students for their future responsibilities and challenges as a physician.
This program is comprised of two tracks:
Internal Medicine and Subspecialty
Anesthesia and Surgical Subspecialty
Each track has three components:
Core Curriculum, a series of lectures and workshops focusing on clinical, medicine, epidemiology and health care strategies and trends. The core curriculum will be approximately 30 percent of the experience.
Research Project, will be developed by preceptors and modified to meet the students' educational needs. Each student will spend about 40 percent of their experience designing and carrying out the project or study.
Clinical Experience, will enhance the development of clinical skills and professionalism. Students will spend 30 percent of the fellowship shadowing a mentor, rotating in the OR and ER and on inpatient rounds.
Program Faculty The Program Faculty is comprised of clinical mentors and research project preceptors. Clinical mentors will be selected from senior staff physicians within the medical group at Henry Ford Health System. Research preceptors will be assigned from within the center that is sponsoring the project. Some of the centers that have sponsored research projects in the past are:
Center for Health Services Research conducts research on clinical practices and outcomes in addition to evaluating access to care issues and measuring the quality of ambulatory care.
Center for Medical Treatment Effectiveness Programs focuses on asthma and diabetes and works to develop, implement and evaluate culturally appropriate partnerships between patients, health care providers and the community.
Center for Health Promotion and Disease Preventionreviews methods of promoting health in the workplace and the benefits to the employee and employer of positive health behavior.
Josephine Ford Cancer Centeris actively involved in clinical trials in an effort to determine the most effective ways to treat all types of cancer. There are currently 200 clinical trials underway at JFCC.
Evaluation Students will be provided with regular feedback and advice on an informal basis. Both the research project preceptor and the clinical mentor will be involved in this process.
Each student will have the opportunity to evaluate the program itself. Since its inception, the program has received excellent evaluations from participating students.
Selection Participants are selected based on their personal statement of goals and objectives. Historically, half of the program participants attend regional medical schools and half attend a variety of other U.S. medical schools.
Compensation Students participating in the Fellowship Program are provided with a total stipend of $2,100 (taxes are deducted) dispersed when the program is successfully completed.
Questions may be directed to : Dianne Weiland, UGME Representative (313) 916-1465.
Nicole Rocco, M.D. Director, Internal Medicine and Subspecialty Track
Melissa Times, M.D. Director, Anesthesia and Surgery Subspecialty Track
