Fellowship completed

This week, at the Program Director's Workshop, 58 of my fellow PDs from around the country and I completed the last session and requirements for the Program Director's Fellowship, from the National Institute for Program Director Development. I'm really proud of the work I did during the fellowship, and look forward to sharing and living what I learned, for the benefit of the program, faculty and residents.



I met many new colleagues and made a number of friends from all over the country.



I'm especially proud of the project and poster that evolved out of some of my fellowship work, and the new colleague and collaboration with my co-author, Dr. Mark Robinson. Dr. Robinson is the PD at the Cabarrus FMR in North Carolina and also the new president of the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors. We had a great time by phone and email working on this project and actually met face to face for the first time a few days ago at the meeting!



I'd like to say thank you to a few people. To my Chairman, Dr. Barbara Thompson, and our Faculty Development leader, Dr. Alice Ann O'Donell for sponsoring my fellowship. Also to our department administrator, Judy DiMarco and also to Ty for helping me with my financial project. Thank you to the faculty who covered my call and attending responsibilities and took care of my patients while I was gone. Thank you to the Residency Leadership team and staff who held down the fort, made countless logistical arrangements and all the other things you do every day to make the program run well. Thank you to Rosie for printing my poster! Thank you to the medical students and to my residents who participated in the surveys and gave me feedback on the AOC project. And last, but certainly not least, thank you to the leadership and teachers for NIPDD. They are a phenomenal group of people. Many of them are long-time friends and mentors. They commit a lot of themselves to the fellowship and we all benefit greatly from their contributions. They're amazing.