Program Leaders
Training program directors and program coordinators play a pivotal role in the educational mission of the Partners hospitals. Today’s program director is a true educator as well as a caring clinician and a skilled manager and administrator. Program Directors must possess wide-ranging skills to optimize the quality of resident/fellow education while complying with increasingly complex institutional and accreditation requirements. Mentoring trainees, communicating with faculty and administration, navigating evolving data systems, delivering a competencies-based curriculum, and understanding regulations and policy implementation are just some aspects of the Program Director role.
Program Coordinators conversely play a critical role in operating and optimizing GME programs. Coordinators work closely with Program Directors, trainees, and faculty while juggling a number of activities, including managing people, time and data. The position requires a wide range of skills—from excellent verbal/written communications and interpersonal skills to technical/computer expertise—along with knowledge of increasingly complex educational and regulatory requirements.
The GME Office provides support to both Program Directors and Coordinators in a number of ways, including hosting regularly scheduled professional development workshops and an annual coordinator retreat, and by providing guidelines and templates to simplify a number of tasks.
Listed below are links to internal resources to assist and guide both the new and seasoned program directors and coordinators in various administrative responsibilities.
Criteria for program approval and application for Mass General Brigham sponsorship.
Documents to assist with preparation for a site visit and responding to the RRC
Information on eligibility and recruitment and templates for Trainee contracts and program affiliation agreements.
Information on items requiring formal GMEC approval and documents for Program Director transition, program structure changes and trainee complement.
Resources for program directors and coordinators
Information on upcoming workshops and retreats.
Information on upcoming workshops and retreats.