Leadership Curriculum

Through funding from the American College of Emergency Physician’s Chapter Grant program, Denver Health Emergency Medicine Residents and Faculty, Andy French, MD, Matt Mendenhall, MD, and Stephen Wolf, MD, are developing a Residency Leadership Curriculum. This curriculum will aim to promote and teach basic leadership fundamentals to residents and young faculty, and to help prepare them for future leadership roles in any facet of their career. The Residency Leadership Curriculum is founded on 8 leadership "tenets" that are as follows: Interpersonal Communication, Public Communication, Team Building, Negotiation, Networking, Advocacy, Affecting Change, and Self Assessment.

The curriculum itself is divided into three main components:

1) The CLASS (Core Leadership Attribute Seminar Series), which will consist of: lectures on the leadership tenets and subtopics that have been designed and submitted by national leaders in Emergency Medicine; small group discussions that are resident-focused, guided by EM attendings; and round table talks in Q&A format with national EM leaders.

2) The Leadership Compendium will be a composite of books, articles and other leadership literature that has been summarized and reviewed. The reviews will contain the pertinent tenets that are covered within the selected piece and will be available as a reference to be used for lecture development, small group discussions, the round tables, or just as recommendations for personal reading.

3) The Leadership Speaker's Bureau will be a complied list of national and local speaker's that would be willing to talk to residency programs about specific leadership topics. These speakers can be used to simple give a lecture, lead a round table discussion, or both.

This ACEP-funded Residency Leadership Curriculum carries the conceptual support of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD-EM), and the Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association (EMRA). Following its completion in April of 2010, it will be distribute to all interested residencies and to be implemented in a variety of ways within each program. Residency Leadership Curriculum Through funding from the American College of Emergency Physician's Chapter Grant program, Denver Health Emergency Medicine Residents and Faculty, Andy French, MD, Matt Mendenhall, MD, and Stephen Wolf, MD, are developing a Residency Leadership Curriculum. This curriculum will aim to promote and teach basic leadership fundamentals to residents and young faculty, and to help prepare them for future leadership roles in any facet of their career. The Residency Leadership Curriculum is founded on 8 leadership "tenets" that are as follows: Interpersonal Communication, Public Communication, Team Building, Negotiation, Networking, Advocacy, Affecting Change, and Self Assessment. The curriculum itself is divided into three main components:

1) The CLASS (Core Leadership Attribute Seminar Series), which will consist of: lectures on the leadership tenets and subtopics that have been designed and submitted by national leaders in Emergency Medicine; small group discussions that are resident-focused, guided by EM attendings; and round table talks in Q&A format with national EM leaders.

2) The Leadership Compendium will be a composite of books, articles and other leadership literature that has been summarized and reviewed. The reviews will contain the pertinent tenets that are covered within the selected piece and will be available as a reference to be used for lecture development, small group discussions, the round tables, or just as recommendations for personal reading.

3) The Leadership Speaker's Bureau will be a complied list of national and local speaker's that would be willing to talk to residency programs about specific leadership topics. These speakers can be used to simple give a lecture, lead a round table discussion, or both. This ACEP-funded Residency Leadership Curriculum carries the conceptual support of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), the Council of Emergency Medicine Residency Directors (CORD-EM), and the Emergency Medicine Residents' Association (EMRA). Following its completion in April of 2010, it will be distribute to all interested residencies and to be implemented in a variety of ways within each program.