Medical Education Fellow Program

The Department of Medicine is pleased to announce the Medical Education Fellows for the 2024–25 academic year

The Medical Education Fellow Program is a one-year Department of Medicine initiative designed to improve the development of clinician educators at the fellow level. Clinical and educational leaders teach and practice clinically as part of their academic roles. Congratulations to the 2024–25 Medical Education Fellows!

James Wykowski, MD

James Wykowski is a first year pulmonary/critical care fellow in the medical education track. He completed internal medicine residency and chief residency at the University of Washington. His education scholarship interests include trainee experience in the ICU, the impact of difficult events on wellbeing, and serious illness communication.

The DOM Medical Education Fellow Program is a one-year Department of Medicine initiative designed to improve the development of clinician educators at the fellow level. Clinical and educational leaders teach and practice clinically as part of their academic roles. However, they differ in their comfort and ability to serve in leadership roles and to produce scholarship. Educational leaders run courses, clerkships, and other curricula or educational programs. They may build innovative educational programs, evaluate programs, or perform independent educational research to guide how we teach and assess health professions learners. Clinical leaders may run units or service lines. They are actively engaged in quality and safety evaluation and program development and may perform research in these areas to improve how we practice high-quality, safe and cost-effective medicine.

Participating divisions may on a case-by-case basis offer this program as part of a path to a faculty position. Pathways to this program would include:

• Initial applications to fellowship with established clinician-educator (CE) pathways
• Application for an extra year after a one-year fellowship program (examples: GIM, palliative care, geriatrics)
• Transfer from T32s as a fellow’s interest evolves and they become more focused on CE careers

Interested in learning more about this program? Read the Medical Education Fellow Program RFA 2024-25