The Department of Emergency Medicine at the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) established three non-clinical fellowships and one clinical fellowship:
Emergency Medicine Administrative Fellowship
The Emergency Medicine Administrative Fellowship is a 2-year program that aims at developing fellows for executive healthcare roles by providing experiential post-graduate training in operations, finance, strategic planning, risk management, emergency preparedness, quality improvement, and other areas of emergency medicine administration.
This non-clinical fellowship is divided into three components: clinical teaching component, completion of a master's program in Executive Masters in Business Administration that offers core curriculum content, and mentorship through participation in departmental/institutional administrative activities.
This fellowship will help build future leaders in emergency medicine who can contribute to building high quality service emergency departments across the country. By fostering mentorship between fellows and senior management, this non-clinical fellowship contributes to the profession by developing well-prepared health care professionals who are trained in various aspects of healthcare administration.
Fellowship Director: Dr Eveline Hitti
Emergency Medicine Education Fellowship
The Emergency Medicine Education Fellowship is designed to prepare EM graduates to become leaders, scholars, and experts in medical education. This program offers two options:
- 2-year fellowship culminating in a master’s degree in education.
- 1-year fellowship with an education certificate for those with limited time.
This fellowship is ideal for individuals with a strong interest in academics and provides comprehensive training in educational methods, research skills, simulation, and administration.
The fellowship is structured into three key components:
- Clinical Teaching: Fellows engage in hands-on clinical teaching within the department.
- Academic Credential:
- 2-year program: Completion of a master’s degree in education.
- 1-year program: Completion of an education certificate.
- Mentorship and Participation: Active involvement in departmental and institutional educational activities under expert mentorship.
With the growing interest in ACGME-I accreditation in Lebanon and the region, this fellowship is uniquely positioned to:
- Enhance the quality of emergency medical education.
- Develop skilled educational leaders capable of meeting accreditation standards.
- Foster interdepartmental collaboration and drive institutional, national, and regional improvements in emergency medical education.
- Duration: 1 year.
- Academic Credential: Education certificate.
- Focus: Practical education methods, foundational simulation design, and mentorship.
- Clinical Hours: 800 hours/year of emergency department coverage.
- Research: Completion of at least one education research project aimed at publication in a peer-reviewed journal.
- Curriculum: Core content includes teaching principles, assessment, and curriculum design.
- Exposure: Departmental educational activities and focused clinical teaching.
- Goal: Build a solid foundation in medical education for those seeking a shorter-term program.
- Duration: 2 years.
- Academic Credential: Master’s degree in education.
- Focus: Advanced methods in education, curriculum development, simulation, and administrative roles.
- Clinical Hours: 800 hours/year of emergency department coverage annually.
- Research: Completion of two or more projects, with presentations at national or international forums.
- Curriculum: Comprehensive master’s-level coursework, including core courses, electives, and a thesis.
- Exposure: Leadership roles, interdepartmental collaborations, and greater institutional integration.
- Goal: Develop educational leaders capable of influencing education standards at institutional, national, and regional levels.
This fellowship equips graduates with the skills and credentials to lead educational initiatives, improve teaching practices, and make a meaningful impact on the future of emergency medical education.
Emergency Medicine Research Fellowship
The Emergency Medicine Research Fellowship is a 2 years program designed to train physician scientists to become independent investigators and nationally recognized leaders in emergency medicine research.
Research fellows will have the opportunity to work with senior EM faculty with the aim of guiding academic-oriented emergency physicians towards becoming funded clinical research scientists. The fellow will engage in basic, clinical, and health services research pertinent to EM practice, promote collaborative and interdisciplinary research within and across the institution, develop new systems to manage clinical information, develop new methods to assess the outcomes of emergency care, and seek and develop increased funding sources for EM research.
This non-clinical fellowship is divided into three components: clinical teaching component, completion of a master’s program in the Scholars in Health Research Program (SHARP) that offers core curriculum content, and mentorship through participation in departmental/institutional research activities.
Fellowship Director: Dr Eveline Hitti
Pediatrics Emergency Medicine Fellowship
The PEM fellowship is a 3-year program designed to create well rounded PEM physicians who can care for acutely ill children in our community using evidence-based medicine. Through didactic lectures, procedural exposure, simulation training and clinical care, this fellowship equips its graduates with the necessary skills required to confidently resuscitate critically ill children and smoothly run a busy pediatric emergency department. This program is currently offered to pediatric residency graduates and is accepting one new applicant every 3 years.
Fellowship Director: Dr Rachelle El Helou