Good Leaders Don’t Just Appear Out of Thin Air

Many Emergency Medicine (EM) residency graduates take on leadership roles in various capacities, such as committee members, department chairs, or medical directors. While the ABEM clinical practice model and ACGME Program Requirements for EM call for leadership training, a clear approach has not been outlined. This session will explore published methods for teaching leadership in EM residencies and share insights from our curriculum, which began as a resident-driven initiative. The curriculum includes large-group didactics and three specialized leadership academies—public health, operations, and education—each offering targeted workshops and mentored projects. Attendees will learn about key leadership principles and approaches, and gain strategies for implementing leadership education in residency, while addressing common challenges and barriers to developing such programs.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this session, participants should be able to:
  • Describe core leadership principles and skills
  • Describe the published approaches to teaching leadership skills in resident trainees
  • Identify barriers to the development and implementation of a “residents as leaders” curriculum
  • Describe mentorship frameworks within a “residents as leaders” curriculum that foster self-reflection and growth

Presenters:

  • Jeffery Hill, MD, MEd
  • Riley P. Grosso, MD
  • Erin McDonough, MD
Authors

  • Jeffery Hill, MD, MEd

    University of Cincinnati

    I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati. I graduated residency training at the University of Cincinnati in 2012 and thereafter completed a 2 year Masters of Medical Education through the University of Cincinnati. I have been involved in residency leadership since the completion of my fellowship training with a particular focus on resident bedside teaching in boarded EDs, residency didactics, teaching residents to be teachers, and asynchronous/technology facilitated educational interventions. My scholarly work is focused in these content areas as well with original publications on the development and validation of a lecture assessment tool, using Slack to facilitate virtual small group discussions, and survey-based research best practices. In our Deparment I also serve as the chair of our Education Leadership Academy, the goal of which is to teach residents the management principles and skills necessary to be leaders in Emergency Medicine education.

  • Riley P. Grosso, MD

    UH Hospitals Emergency Medicine

    Dr. Grosso serves as the PD at Case Western Reserve College of Medicine/UH Hospitals Department of Emergency Medicine

  • Erin McDonough, MD

    University of Cincinnati

    Dr. McDonough is the Residency Program Director and Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. She completed her medical school education at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, graduating in 2004. She then trained at the University of Cincinnati, completing her Emergency Medicine residency training in 2008 (serving as Chief Resident in 2007-2008) and then a Neurocritical Care and Neurovascular Emergencies Fellowship in 2010. After training, she joined the faculty at UC as an Assistant Program Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program. She has served as Program Director since 2017.

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