Overview
Join our vibrant community of curious, motivated, continuous learners and enhance your ability to develop, implement, and assess simulation-based activities that promote team well-being, quality, and safety in healthcare delivery.
The CMS Simulation Fellowship and International Scholar Program is tailored to your interests and goals for personal and professional development helping you identify and position your experiential curriculum and programs to support continuous learning, well-being, safety and improved performance of your colleagues and organization. As a Fellow/Scholar, you will be immersed in a wide-variety of healthcare simulation teaching and learning activities designed to advance your skills as an effective leader, instructor and debriefer of simulation-based activities and as a change agent and champion for healthcare quality and safety improvement.
Programs
Programs are flexible, available as short-term engagements that range from fully online to hybrid mixtures of online and in person activities or as longer term in person engagements lasting from six to twelve months. Shorter periods of six weeks to five months of in person engagements can be arranged on a case-by-case basis.
Whether online or in person, our curricula provide a solid foundation in simulation-based education, quality and safety interventions, leadership, and research. You will interact with some of the world’s leading simulation educators and change agents; gain experience designing and debriefing simulation activities and developing a strategic plan, referred to as a “Partnership Pathway”, that facilitates continuous learning, readiness, and training to advance the safety and quality of healthcare delivery in your organization.
We offer Fellows and International Scholars opportunities to:
- Design and develop simulation-based solutions that target the Fellow’s important organizational goals.
- Understand how CMS teaches simulation, particularly our philosophy of simulation-based transformation in education and quality and safety.
- Develop a solid foundation in simulation-based interventions for education, clinician resilience, and patient safety.
- Learn and implement the principles of scenario design for healthcare providers (e.g. faculty, fellows, post-graduate trainees and students).
- Participate in and lead scenarios focused on interprofessional communication and collaboration.
- Connect with simulation leaders, educators, and quality champions in our world-wide community of practice.
- Engage with CMS faculty on a 1:1 basis for mentoring in leadership and advancing the Fellow’s simulation program and career goals.
- Attend CMS simulation education and clinical courses.
- Assist CMS Faculty with simulation education, quality and safety projects, clinical courses, webinars and research.
- Attend CMS meetings focused on simulation quality enhancement, education, research, scenario development, program planning and evaluation, etc.
- Receive real-time feedback to improve and refine the Fellow’s debriefing and feedback and coaching skills.
- Advance the Fellow’s personal research agenda for the requisite scholarly project.
- Formally present the Scholarly Project to CMS faculty and peers for discussion, feedback and guidance.
Program Options
Online or Hybrid Simulation Fellowship
Duration: 3 Months or a Total of 12 Weeks
Tuition: Fee Varies
From the comfort of your home and while remaining on your job for all or most of the 12-week time period:
- Gain the foundational skills of a healthcare simulation-based educator.
- Learn with colleagues who invented and continue to transform leading debriefing models.
- Position your simulation initiatives to address key goals for your colleagues and organization.
- Experience principles of workplace-based learning as you are coached by the experts at CMS.
- Connect with peers and mentors world-wide who face similar challenges as you.
- Pace your fellowship coursework based on your own personal and professional commitments and schedule obligations.
In Person Simulation Fellowship
Duration: 6-12 Months
Tuition: $99,000 USD for 1 year fellowship, includes a seat in CMS faculty development courses
Based at the Center for Medical Simulation in Boston, everything in the Online or Hybrid Simulation Fellowship plus:
- Day-to-day Interactions with CMS Faculty and Staff.
- Participate, observe, and participate in opportunities to facilitate clinical simulation activities at CMS or those that CMS supports at our Harvard-affiliated institutions.
- Observe, learn about, and participate in simulation operations activities, and assist in directing scenarios during clinical simulation courses, instructor/faculty development and other learning activities held at CMS.
- Observe from behind the scenes during simulations to build your skill in operating mannequins and AV consoles.
- Enjoy the City of Boston and surrounding areas.
Applicant Qualifications
- Medical or Nursing degrees equivalent to an MD, DO or MBBS, RN or advanced practice provider such as, but not limited to, an NP, CNM, CRNA or PA; other allied health professional degrees obtained within or outside of the US; or PhD in a field related to healthcare.
- A record of achievement in healthcare education, as provided by letters of reference, publications, teaching evaluations, or prior specialized training or experience in medical education is desired, but not required.
- A minimum of two years in clinical practice or work related to field of study.
- A high degree of motivation to pursue advanced training in simulation-based healthcare education.
- A record of achievement in healthcare education, as provided by letters of reference, publications, teaching evaluations; or having completed other specialized training or experience in healthcare education.
Application and Interview Information
You may contact the Director of the Simulation Fellowship and International Scholars Program, Dr. Roxane Gardner, MD, MPH, DSc, to discuss your interests and seek additional information about the program options at:
Those formally applying to the program will be asked to submit the following:
- An up-to-date Curriculum Vitae;
- A Personal Statement of your goals and objectives for the fellowship (1-2 pages);
- A description of the simulation project you will develop or advance during your fellowship at CMS (1-2 pages)’ and
- Two to three letters of recommendation, including one from a program director or immediate supervisor, and one from a faculty or colleague who can attest to/speak about your interest in healthcare simulation.
