Fellowship Overview

Eligibility

• MD or DO completion from an ACGME accredited residency
• Open to recent residency graduates or junior faculty seeking structured career development 

Structure

• Fellows work half-time clinically in their respective clinical department at Rush
• Fellows independently apply for a master’s-level degree, with guidance from fellowship leadership to align degree-related research with health equity goals
  • Recommended: Master of Public Health (MPH) at the University of Illinois Chicago
  • Alternatives: MS in Clinical Research or MS in Health Systems Management at Rush
• Fellows will complete leadership and education courses at Rush, engage in practical experiences with community partners, and complete an asynchronous population health equity curriculum 

Goals

Graduating fellows will emerge as departmental and community leaders equipped with expertise in: 

• Population healthcare
  • Health Equity history, ethics, and principles
  • Structural determinants of health
  • Healthcare policy and identifying avenues for innovation
• Leadership
  • Program development and public health interventions
  • Interprofessional team building and collaboration
• Research
  • Qualitative and quantitative methods, data analytics, IRB and grant writing
  • Development of program assessments, presentations, and publications focused on improving population health outcomes and healthcare delivery
• Teaching
  • Evidence-based teaching methods, curriculum design, and multi-level learner engagement
• Advocacy
  • Building and sustaining community partnerships
  • Policy development and implementation, especially as it relates to historically marginalized populations 

Fellows will be expected to successfully: 

• Complete an MPH or comparable degree
• Submit at least one abstract or manuscript to a peer-reviewed journal
• Establish or advance a meaningful relationship with a community partner
• Create or advance a population health policy, program, or educational curriculum at Rush or in the community 

Curriculum highlights

• Partnership with the Rush BMO Institute for Health Equity (RBIHE)
• Administrative leadership and policy
  • Weekly university-wide Health Equity meetings
  • Monthly strategic planning sessions at Rush BMO Institute for Health Equity
  • Mentorship from population health equity innovators and leaders at RBIHE
  • Emphasis on interprofessional teambuilding and collaboration
• Research development
  • MPH or comparable advanced degree
• Research support and mentorship from Rush’s Departments of Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine, and from RBIHE
• Teaching opportunities
  • Completion of the “Advancing Health Equity through Teaching Excellence” course at Rush
  • Teaching roles with medical students, Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine residents, and faculty development sessions
  • Journal club presentations at department and national levels
• Community engagement and advocacy
  • Existing community partnerships include Center to Transform Health and Housing, Rush Substance Use Intervention Team, Asylum Medicine Training Initiative, Medical Justice Alliance, Night Ministry/Street Medicine, Chicago Department of Public Health, Live Healthy Chicago, and West Side United - Engagement with national organizations such as Social Mission Alliance, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and The National Collaboration for Education to Address the Social Determinants of Health 

Salary & benefits

• Appointment as attending physician with 0.5 FTE clinical work as Hospitalist/Emergency Physician, and 0.5 FTE for Fellowship MPH, research, and education
• Full benefits including:
  • 26 vacation days + 10 days PTO
  • $5000 CME stipend + 7 CME days