FACULTY DEVELOPMENT: STEP (SAFE TRANSITION FOR EVERY PATIENT)

Goal & Objectives: This collaborative, multi-specialty faculty development program is designed to improve the quality of care for vulnerable patients by developing primary care faculty in Family Medicine, General Internal Medicine, and General Pediatrics as master educators and primary care community preceptors as effective teachers focused on care transitions. By selecting a common topic – care transitions – as the focus for training our educators, we model the “service learning” approach to medical education: our faculty “learn” about education as they “serve” education through the systematic design, teaching, and evaluation of a curriculum that addresses a critical gap in medical student and resident education – patient safety focused on care transitions in primary care. Our objectives are to:

1. Fully train 13 primary care master educators who are competent to design, teach, and evaluate medical education curriculum, lead education programs, and disseminate their work consistent with principles of educational scholarship
    
2. Design and successfully implement a care transitions curriculum for primary care medical students and residents designed as part of the service-learning oriented master educator curriculum and a parallel model for community preceptors as teachers
    
3. Fully train 36 community preceptors prepared to effectively teach point-of-care transitions
    
4. Disseminate the care transitions curriculum and the service-learning faculty development models through peer reviewed forums consistent with the principles of scholarship