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October 2024 – September 2025 Academy Year

The Request for Applications is now closed. Please check back in Spring 2025.

The goals of the Academy are to enhance teaching across the hospital, foster scholarship in education, and support career development for health professions’ educators.  We are an interprofessional and inclusive learning community that promotes educational collaboration through seminars, workshops, and networking.

We welcome applications from all educators of health professionals who want to improve their teaching, develop educational leadership skills, or pursue scholarly projects in education.

Please direct all inquiries to BCHAcademy@childrens.harvard.edu

Membership Categories

Academy for Teaching and Educational Innovation and Scholarship

Membership Categories

Category

Eligibility

Benefits

Maintenance Requirements*

Standard Member
  • Educators of health professional learners actively engaged in teaching/education at BCH
  • Access to all programming, including Academy Retreats
  • Professional development seminar series
  • Teaching consultation
  1. Participation in a minimum of 6 hours of Academy activities, annually. Activities can include the following:
  • attend or lead Academy seminars/ retreats
  • innovate new curricula or educational programs
  • peer observe teaching
  • mentor academy members on educational projects/ education research/curriculum development
  • serve as a teaching coach
  • review department grants, CE proposals, or online continuing education courses

2. Completion of Academy seminar
feedback surveys

3. Submission of Annual Report

Scholar Member
  • Educators of health professional learners actively engaged in teaching/education at BCH
  • Commitment to pursue a scholarly project or educational research (must have feasible project/research study)
  • Access to all Academy programming
  • Participation in a project group for guidance and support
  • Research design assistance
  • Approved request for statistical support
  • Professional Development seminar series

1. Participation in a minimum of 6 hrs of activities annually, including:

  • Attendance at >4 project group meetings

The additional hours can include the following:

  • attend or lead Academy seminars/retreats
  • attend special scholar member seminars
  • serve as a project mentor for scholars

2. Documented project/research progress

3. Presentation or update of project/research to project group every year

4. Submission of annual report

Trainee Member* *May opt to become a Standard or Scholar member. Scholar membership requires >3 scholar group meetings.
  • At least one remaining year of  training at BCH; interest in pursuing health professions’ education as part of one’s career
  • Access to all programming, including Academy Retreats
  • Professional development seminar series
  • Teaching consultation
6 hours of participation per year (can include medical education programming in residency or fellowship)Trainee Members are not required to submit annual report; however, they must submit yearly information about their training status (e.g. finished training, entering next year of training, hired as BCH faculty).

 

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BCH Academy

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