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.