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The Clinician-Educator Training Pathway provides trainees with the knowledge, skills, and professional preparation they need to be successful in a career as a clinician-educator.
members of the Clinician Educator Training Pathway standing together on a staircase

Clinician-Educator Training Pathway

The Clinician-Educator Training Pathway (CETP) is a two-year program that provides trainees with the knowledge, skills and professional preparation they need to be successful in a career as a clinician-educator, recognizing that the medical education career pathway is a deliberate choice that requires a particular set of skills rather than a secondary facet to another career focus. Trainees are introduced into a community of educators that stresses the collaborative approach necessary for success.

Application

Residents and fellows are invited to apply for the Clinician-Educator Training Pathway in their first postgraduate year but may apply in subsequent years if they have at least two years of residency/fellowship remaining. Applications for the next cohort will open in early 2026.

Training Areas

Career Development Teaching Strategies Education Leadership Education Research Community of Educators

Learn about possible career pathways

Learn how to be promoted

Learn to navigate academic medicine as an educator

Explore traditional and innovative instructional strategies

See how technology can be used

Examine the literature support and theoretical basis for strategies

Gain basic skills in curriculum development, program development and evaluation, assessment and more

Appreciate the value of mentorship

Learn how to navigate committees

Explore basic concepts through journal club and scholarly projects

Produce a tangible capstone project that will demonstrate your skills to future employers

Join a community of peers and mentors

Build meaningful relationships that will support you throughout your career


Explore the program curriculum

Program Eligibility

  • Residents and fellows who are completing at least the first year of their training program, or fellows preparing to start a shorter (less than two year) fellowship
  • Trainees interested in making medical education and teaching a significant part of their careers
  • Trainees who are not completing a research fellowship (which would imply that a career would be focused on research outside of education)
  • Any level of prior training/experience acceptable

Application Process

The pathway application window for 2025–2027 as ended. Applications for the 2026-2028 cohort will open in early 2026.
Applicants will be asked for their CV and brief statements about what they hope to gain from the pathway, their career goals and a description of a role model. Program directors will be prompted to complete a form indicating their support for the application. 


Badges/credentialing

Participants will earn badges/credentials for completing each component of the program:

  • Teaching development (attend 12 sessions over 2 years)
  • Peer review of teaching
  • Curriculum development modules
  • Literature review
  • Education scholarship (presentation or publication)

Those who earn all five badges will receive the GME certificate.

Education scholarship project

For the 2024–2026 cohort, we will be trying something new! Participants will work in small groups on a project mentored by a faculty member. 

Program Leadership

Program Director
38204-Bagley, Brent

Brent A. Bagley, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Brent Bagley, MD, is an assistant professor of clinical medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine and serves as an associate program director for curriculum for the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship, as well as the statewide course director for the medicine critical care selectives for fourth year medical students. He specializes in medical critical care as well as general pulmonary medicine, and practices primarily at Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital.

After receiving his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine, Dr. Bagley completed his internal medicine residency followed by fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine, both at Indiana University School of Medicine. He served as chief fellow during his third year of fellowship. He currently sees patients for general pulmonary at Eskenazi Hospital. Dr. Bagley's research interest lies in medical education, with a focus on assessment and curriculum design.

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Program Director
59727-Majmudar-Sheth, Bittu

Bittu D. Majmudar-Sheth, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology

Bittu Majmudar-Sheth, MD is an assistant professor of clinical neurology. She completed medical school at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine and residency training in pediatric/child neurology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. She subspecializes in fetal-neonatal neurology/neurocritical care at Riley Hospital for Children. Outside of clinical patient care, she is interested in medical education and has completed several years of faculty development training in educational scholarship and is involved in multiple activities for trainees ranging from medical students to residents/fellows including IU School of Medicine's Admissions Committee, Council for Accommodations Review, faculty coordinator for career mentoring in child neurology, resident coaching, and the program evaluation committee for the Transitional Year residency program.

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