MacNeal Family Medicine Faculty Development Fellowship

The MacNeal Family Medicine Faculty Development Fellowship program at Loyola Medicine was developed in 2002 to address a perceived need for increasing fellowship-trained family physician faculty, especially in community hospital-based programs.

We welcomed our first fellow in July of 2003. Since its inception, nine fellows have completed the fellowship.

Program Curriculum

The fellowship curriculum covers four areas: clinical skills, teaching skills, administrative skills, and scholarly activity skills.

Clinical Skills

The fellow sees patients in our Family Medicine Center one to two half days a week and is asked to identify one or two clinical areas that he/she want to enhance or acquire during the fellowship. Time is scheduled during the fellowship until competency is met in these areas. For those interested in doing obstetrics, longitudinal experience includes managing the board in L&D one half-day a week, carrying several continuity obstetric patients throughout the fellowship, and supervising resident deliveries by the end of fellowship.

Teaching Skills

Seminars, with topic-specific goals and objectives and relevant readings, occur one to two times a month throughout the fellowship. Teaching skills, including hands-on observed and videotaped precepting, are focused on in the first few months to permit prompt inclusion of the fellow into having his/her own half-day precepting slots four to five times a week. The fellow will also serve as attending on our family medicine service about four weeks a year or more depending on their interest in inpatient medicine.

Administrative Skills

Seminars on various relevant topics are augmented by having the fellow participate in our weekly faculty meetings, oversee an area of the curriculum, and participate in our Annual Program Review.

Scholarly Activity Skills

Fellows doing the one-year fellowship are expected to make significant progress on a research project during their fellowship.

Eligibility

The applicant must be a board-certified graduate of an approved family medicine residency program and have an interest in teaching in family medicine. We currently don’t sponsor visas.

Stipend

The fellowship offers a stipend and benefits that are highly competitive with other fellowship programs.

For additional information and application instructions, contact:

Edward C. Foley, MD, MPH 
Program Director 
MacNeal Family Medicine Residency Program

3231 S. Euclid Avenue, 5th Floor 
Berwyn, IL 60402

Phone: 708-783-3506 
Email: Edward.Foley@lumc.edu