ENHANCING MEDICAL EDUCATION
Leadership training for CORE residency directors

By Richard Heck

This summer, CORE residency directors came together for their first sessions of the new Residency Directors Residency Administration Program (RD RAP), a yearlong fellowship certificate program unique among osteopathic postgraduate training institutions.      

“This unprecedented program trains program directors to strengthen their skills and become more successful leaders,” says Olivia Sheehan, Ph.D., assistant director of CORE faculty development.

A grant by Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital Medical Education Foundation paid for all of its own hospital’s program directors to attend sessions.

“We inherit the program from our predecessor, but we don’t always have the leadership and administrative skills,” says Ronald Russ, D.O. (’98), FACOFP, CORE assistant dean at Cuyahoga Falls General Hospital. “I felt strongly that we needed to do this to continue our residency programs here.”

Additional support is being provided by the CORE New Initiative Fund. It provides funding for up to six program directors to attend from other CORE hospitals.

Applications now are being accepted for the next program, beginning in 2010.

Visit the CORE web site at www.ohiocore.org.