Professional Development
Professional and personal development are central to students' pathways through medical school. This element plays a big part in four components of our teaching:
- Area of Scholarly Concentration: This is a highly mentored scholarly exploration tailored to the individual interests of each student. It helps students develop a long-term mentoring relationship with a faculty member and provides support through regular small-group meetings.
- Medical Humanities & Bioethics: Students take a sequence of courses in clinical ethics and participate in two sequences of seminars in medical humanities and applied arts.
- Personal Transition to the Profession: This is a monthly course addressing the competency of Personal Awareness & Self-Care and allows students to discuss issues of personal and professional identity. Each month has a specific topic, such as work-life balance or coping with mistakes.
- Interprofessional Education: This is a curricular thread emphasizing the need to collaborate with and lead interprofessional teams. Throughout the MD career, students develop attitudes, skills and behaviors necessary for students to function as leaders and members of highly effective medical teams.
- Leadership Identity Formation and Training Curriculum: The aim of this innovative program is to develop the leadership potential of each Feinberg student, through instruction in leadership theory, practice in self-reflection to build leadership skills, and engagement in project-based learning in both community and clinical leadership. The program culminates in a leadership skills self-assessment and reflection with a coach.
Learn more about teaching opportunities within this element.