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Dear Colleagues,

Hope this finds you well. We are delighted to invite you to apply to FIT-PM, a Facilitator-in-Training Peer Mentoring program in 2023-2024.

What is Group Peer Mentoring (GPM)? Facilitated group peer mentoring is a mentoring strategy consisting of small groups of faculty led by a facilitator who meet regularly for mentoring sessions. This model has been shown to effectively promote faculty vitality, career progression, and leadership skills, while also supporting goals of diversity, equity and inclusion. To make peer mentoring scalable, we will be offering our second facilitator training program at Weill Cornell, which was delivered in the past, with excellent results. We are currently recruiting the second cohort of facilitators-in-training from across Weill Cornell.

What is FIT-PM, a Group Peer Mentoring Facilitator-in-Training program? FIT-PM is a longitudinal training program from May 2023-May 2024 with facilitator-trainers, Drs. Swana De Gijsel and Kimberly Bloom-Feshbach. We have experience in training group peer mentoring facilitators, working with DEI principles, and helping health care organizations to change culture in positive ways. Kimberly and Swana are also facilitators on the faculty with VitalTalk and the Academy of Communication in Healthcare, respectively. 

Program Requirements: 

• Attend 5 full days of in-person training: May 17, 18, and 19, 2023; September 21 and 22, 2023. 
• Participate in 4 virtual/hybrid training sessions: November 9, 2023 from 1-5, January 18, 2024 from 1-5 PM, April 18, 2024 from 1-5 PM, and May 23, 2024 from 1-3 PM (in person, with hybrid attendance available).
• Co-facilitate 4 full day sessions of a Peer Mentoring Group (October, December, February, May). You will co-facilitate a mentoring group together with another trained facilitator, from October 2023-May 2024. Groups will include Early Career Researchers across Weill Cornell, Leaders in Medical Education across Weill Cornell, Clinical Early and Mid-Career Faculty across Weill Cornell, Early and Mid-Career Faculty (DOM), and Clinical Scholars Faculty (DOM; GIM). 

What you can expect:

• Learn core facilitation skills to handle group formation and challenges that may arise, as well as advanced skills to help mentees with career planning, negotiation, DEI, coaching and more.
• In leading your own group, you can expect continued coaching, observation, support and learning opportunities.
• Gain personal and professional benefits from the group of facilitators in training, including increased mentoring and leadership skills, career clarity, deepened meaning in work, and fun.
• A 360-evaluation process, which if successful, will include Certification as a Group Peer Mentoring Facilitator at Weill Cornell.
• A stipend will be offered upon completing all training and facilitation of 4 GPM Sessions.

We hope that there will be opportunities to make group peer mentoring facilitation part of your professional work at Weill Cornell and beyond.

Please complete this brief application by Friday 3/17 if you're interested in joining us: 

https://weillcornell.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3g5CywRbByDunIO

You are welcome to contact us with questions at any time.

All the best, 

Kimberly and Swana

Kimberly Bloom-Feshbach, MD kib9047@med.cornell.edu

Swana De Gijsel, MD swg9005@med.cornell.edu

Co-Directors, Weill Cornell Group Peer Mentoring

Co-Directors, Weill Cornell Facilitator-in-Training Peer Mentoring Program

Registration is required for this virtual event:

https://weillcornell.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pWLrfsNpRLe8QHAPexfWlQ

Video recording for this event is available at:

https://faculty.weill.cornell.edu/faculty-development/media-library/women-medicine-learning-be-comfortable-your-own-skin-12523

Who should apply?               

Attending physicians at the clinical instructor or assistant professor level who are passionate and committed to becoming strategically vital leaders in interdisciplinary process improvement, education and mentorship, and accomplishing academic scholarship in QI. Why apply? Participants will receive support and mentoring through one-on-one and workshop settings with experts in QI project and research design to complete high impact initiatives relevant to their clinical divisions and in alignment with institutional goals. Participation provides clinical faculty who are not traditional researchers with a pathway to obtain mentorship and achieve academic scholarship while improving the quality and safety of hospital and ambulatory patient care. 

Eligibility:

Candidates eligible for participation must: Hold a faculty appointment (current) at the level of Instructor or Assistant Professor; Be clinically active in the inpatient and/or outpatient settings at Weill Cornell Medicine. Applicants from other campuses are welcome to apply if able to attend the six-half day workshops in person at the uptown campus; Propose a project in the areas of quality and/or process improvement or patient safety relevant to their division and/or department and in alignment with the goals of NYP and/or WCM PO

Application Process:

Click the application link for full details on the program, application process, and the application form. All applications must include attestation of support from division chief or department chair for participation in the program. Applications will be reviewed for eligibility on a rolling basis. If criteria are met, applicants will be contacted to arrange a project consultation with QIA leadership. Notifications of final
program decisions will be made by April 1, 2024. Program will begin on July 1, 2024 through June
30, 2025.

For more information email us at QIA-WCM@med.cornell.edu

Jennifer I. Lee, MD FACP FHM
Director, Quality Improvement Academy
Robert J. Kim, MD FACC
Co-director, Quality Improvement Academy

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