Residents as Educators Pathway
The Residents as Educators Pathway provides selected residents with a unique opportunity to enhance their residency training with additional experiences and comprehensive skill training in various educational domains.
Those interested in the Residents as Educators Pathway customize a longitudinal curriculum tailor-fit to their career goals, under direct faculty mentorship, in preparation for a career as an educationalist or in academic medicine.
The pathway is offered as either a one (PGY-3) or a two (PGY-3 and PGY-4) year pathway.
Experiences
Our program provides a range of experiences:
- Residents as Educators Elective I
- Residents as Educators Elective II
- Medical Education Research Elective
- Participation in the Jacobs Educator Excellence Program
- Direct mentorship from educational leadership
- Option to earn a master’s degree in education in conjunction with the Medical Education and Educational Research Institute
- Participation on programmatic, institutional and national education committees
- Direct mentorship of junior residents and medical students
Pathway Directors
Office of Medical Curriculum - 7th floor - Room 7177 Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences 955 Main Street Buffalo, NY 14203
Phone: 716-829-3467
Email: avk6@buffalo.edu
Director, Medical Education & Educational Research Institute (MEERI); Associate Dean for Medical Education; Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
955 Main Street Room 6153 Buffalo, NY 14203
Phone: 716-829-5785; Fax: 716-829-2437
Email: meka2@buffalo.edu
Eligibility
Interested PGY-2 residents are welcome to apply!
Current Residents
Mody Amin, DO
Samuel Booth, DO, MPH
Leonard Palatnic, DO