Curriculum

Education Track

For residents interested in becoming professional medical educators, we offer an innovative, longitudinal elective in educator development. While all of our residents receive training in education skills, those interested in becoming professional clinical educators have the option of additional training, career development and mentorship through NET during their PGY-2 through PGY-4 years of residency.

The teaching track provides residents with unique opportunities to teach in a variety of settings over the course of three years under guided mentorship, receiving formative feedback and building individual teaching portfolios along the way. They also complete education scholarship through mentored curriculum development projects that are completed throughout the duration of their participation in NET. Residents also receive formal training in teaching skills, curriculum development, administration and leadership skills through regularly occurring didactic sessions throughout each year.

NET seeks to improve neurology residents’ confidence in their ability to teach effectively, to provide them with the skills needed to be effective teachers to diverse learners in diverse settings, and to facilitate their career development as future clinician educators.

The Neurology Educator Track started in 2015. Since then we have had two neurology residents enrolled per resident class. Our first inaugural members will graduate this spring (2019). In 2018, we were delighted to have two residents from PM&R join our teaching tracks and we are looking forward to ongoing collaboration with PM&R. More recently, neurology residency programs outside of Minnesota have expressed interest in adopting our model at their institutions.

NET Leadership

Jamie Starks – Director, Neurology Faculty Mentor

Sam Maiser – Co-Director, Neurology Faculty Mentor

Ezgi Tiryaki - Neurology Faculty Mentor