Leadership Program

2024-2025 Leadership Cohort Application Information

The Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) Certificate Program is a nation-wide educational
leadership development program administered through the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). In 2015, Georgetown University Medical Center and MedStar Health initiated a highly successful institutional version and continue to offer the course annually. We are happy to announce a call for applications for the next cohort.

Eligibility: GUMC faculty and administrative professionals are eligible to apply. 

Opportunities & Expectations: The LEAD program fosters practical knowledge drawn from the best
recognized theoretical models and best practices of effective leadership that are relevant to medical
education organizations and processes. LEAD Fellows must participate fully in all elements of the
curriculum listed below.  With guidance from LEAD program leaders, each Fellow will select LEAD Local Coach from within GUMC who commits to full participation with the Fellow in all four module workshops and in monthly coaching sessions. These interactive sessions include hands-on applications and reflective practice. We draw on the rich experiences of the diverse coaches and LEAD fellows to demonstrate principles of leadership theory.

Cost: There is no cost to individual participants or their mentors. Tuition is generously covered by Medstar Teaching Scholars Program.

Application Process: The three-part application consists of this (1) completed application form, (2)
your current CV, and (3) a letter of support from your department chair indicating support for your
full participation in the LEAD program. (Note: An example support letter has been included as the last
page of this packet.) Combine the three documents into a single PDF and submit as email attachment to CENTILE@georgetown.edu on or before June 24, 2024. Applicants will be notified of the selection
decision no later than June 30, 2024.

Get the application and information packet.

CENTILE Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) Certificate Program

2016 CENTILE LEAD COHORT
2016 LEAD Cohort

The Leadership Education and Development (LEAD) Certificate Program is a nation-wide educational
leadership development program administered through the Association of American Medical Colleges
(AAMC). In 2015, Georgetown University Medical Center and MedStar Health initiated a highly successful institutional version and continue to offer the course annually. We are happy to announce a call for applications for the next cohort. The 2023 cohort calendar is outlined below.

The core purposes of the LEAD program are to:

  • Offer a well-grounded, sustainable program for interested professionals to develop and strengthen their educational leadership with a specific focus on academic medicine;
  • Create a professional learning community in which aspiring and emerging leaders learn from and with each other;
  • Foster an environment for networking and collaboration in educational leadership at multiple levels in academic medicine;
  • Facilitate learning and reflective practice in ways that continuously enhance effective leadership style and practices; and
  • Facilitate participants’ entry and progressive advancement into meaningful leadership roles.

LEAD is a multi-faceted leadership certificate program that includes:

  • 16-hours of face-to-face sessions targeting each major theme;
  • Mentoring and coaching by a Local Coach, and opportunities for peer coaching and mentoring;
  • Independent learning and reflective practice through structured learning activities, and LEAD Portfolio development;
  • Real-life application through an individual Applied Leadership Focus;
  • Engagement in a GUMC professional learning community through formal and informal LEAD activities that include electronic communications and quarterly teleconferences.

If you are an early or mid-career faculty responsible for or aspiring to educational leadership in the academic health sciences (as a future department chair, dean, curriculum committee chair), you should consider this opportunity.
Upon completion of the LEAD certificate program, you will have enhanced your abilities to:

  • Apply relevant theoretical frameworks to guide their ongoing leadership development and actions in various situations
  • Provide a solid rationale for using leaderrship theories to guide practice
  • Differentiate adminsitration, management, and leadership, and explain the contribution of each to performing as an effective educational leader
  • Demonstrate leadership behaviors that include effective communication, supervision, strategic planning, and organizational development (e.g., creating a shared vision, developing people and capacity, facilitating effective change)
  • Use reflective practice and feedback to develop and continuously refine their personal leadership style and effectiveness

Expectations

The LEAD program fosters practical knowledge drawn from the best recognized theoretical models and best practices of effective leadership that are relevant to medical education organizations and processes.  Participation is mandatory in all elements of the curriculum.

TBD – Based on participant availability (1 hour virtual)·       

September 19-20, 2024 In Person (Location TBD, Local Hotel)
Overnight accommodations provided for participants and coaches

Module 1: Setting Direction and Vision, Thursday, 9/19/24, 1:00-5:00 PM
Module 2: Leading by Developing Others, Friday, 9/20/24, 8:30 AM – 12:30 PM

October 10, 2024 In Person at Medstar Corporate Offices in Columbia, MD

Module 3: Leading and Managing Others, Thursday,  10/10/24, 8:30-12:30
Applied Leadership Focus Planning Discussion, Thursday, 10/10/24,  1:30-2:30

November 21, 2024 at 2115 Wisconsin Avenue, Washington DC

Module 4: Leading by Developing the Organization, Thursday, 11/21/2024, 8:30-12:30

Applied Leadership Focus (ALF) Activity proposal due Dec. 9
Implementation December 2023 to April 2024

  1. Thursday, January 16, 2025, 1-2 PM
  2. Thursday, February 20, 2025, 1-2 PM
  3. Thursday, March 20, 2025, 1-2 PM
  4. Thursday, April 25, 2025, 1-2 PM

Independent learning and reflective practice through structured learning activities (LEAD
Learning Portfolio) completed prior to, during, and after each module workshop, and real-life
application through an individual Applied Leadership Focus (ALF) activity comprised of
personalized activities to facilitate transfer of learning and leadership development to real-life
practice within one’s selected educator work setting with support from LEAD Local Coach and
Faculty Consultant. Each Fellow develops an ALF activity during the first half of the LEAD year,
implements the ALF from January through April, and completes an ALF Final Report and
presentation in May.

Monthly meetings with your Leadership Coach to further explore personal leadership goals,
challenges, learning from leadership observations and experiences in your local setting, content
from the curriculum, and your Applied Leadership Focus. (September 2024to May 2025)

May 15 2025 – ALF presentations and Graduation, Date to be announced

If you have questions about the LEAD program, please email the Local Course Director, Dr Amy Burke at burkeal@georgetown.edu  OR  CENTILE@georgtown.edu

View past Leadership Cohorts here