Introduction

The mission of the CEMSP is to help General Internal Medicine (GIM) and Hospital Medicine (HM) Clinician-Educators and Faculty on the Clinical Excellence (CEs) track develop an area of scholarship, achieve academic success, and build national reputations while enhancing recognition and job satisfaction.

GIM and HM at Johns Hopkins is home to nearly 100 outstanding CEs whose dual responsibilities are providing expert patient care at Johns Hopkins and playing a leading role in teaching medical students, residents, fellows and peers. We also have many clinician faculty whose area of scholarship falls under clinical excellence. Although outstanding these faculty need additional mentorship to develop into nationally recognized academicians. On October 1, 2007, Hopkins GIM established the Clinician-Educator Mentoring and Scholarship Program (CEMSP) to meet this need.

Requests for CEMSP Resources

CEMSP resources are available to CE faculty. Some CEMSP resources are available to junior clinician investigators. 

CEs are entitled to approximately 50 hours of CEMSP services each academic year. Additional hours may require payment from another source.

Clinician-investigators (CI) may “buy” up to 20% of the CEMSP research team’s time as available; preference will be given to junior faculty. 

CEMSP Services

Scholarly Mentorship

The CEMSP provides a variety of services to Clinician-Educators.

First, the Director and/or Associate Director meets regularly with junior faculty to help them:

• define an area of scholarship
• assist in setting time lines for scholarly work
• provide mentorship in all aspects of a scholarly project
• promote career planning and job satisfaction
• guide the writing of an “Impact Statement"
• identify pathways to national reputation
• identify small grants and provide mentorship in grant writing

The CEMSP Director and Associate Director assist the GIM and Hospital Medicine Division Directors in the preparation of promotion and award letters for Clinician Educators/Clinical Excellence faculty. The CEMSP Director and Associate Director also keep faculty up to date on information and policy changes regarding School of Medicine career and promotion policies. 

Project Coordination

Second, the CEMSP employs a full-time research associates and coordinators to help with scholarly projects. Depending on the project, the research staff may assist with:

• IRB proposal preparation  
• Database set-up
• Data collection 
• Data management
• Study coordination
• Preparation of grant proposals and manuscripts
• Link to advanced statistics

GIM Clinical Research Methods Core

Third, the CEMSP serves as a link the GIM Clinical Research Methods Core, directed by Dr. Jessica Yeh. The Methods Core is home to methodologically oriented PhD faculty in the GIM Division with expertise in epidemiology, biostatistics, behavioral medicine, and data analysis. These faculty members oversee a team of graduate research assistants prepared to conduct statistical analysis for research projects conducted by Clinician-Educators.

Link to Senior Research Faculty

Finally, the CEMSP helps Clinician-Educators network with senior research faculty in GIM, and throughout the School of Medicine, School of Public Health, and School of Nursing who can incorporate them into on-going, federally funded research projects. By far the most successful link thus far has been with the Johns Hopkins Evidence-based Practice Center (EPC) directed by Dr. Eric Bass, an internationally recognized expert in evidence-based medicine. Over the past five years, as part of the EPC center, Clinician-Educators have contributed to six major evidence reports and have authored more than ten articles in prominent peer-reviewed journals, including the Annals of Internal Medicine. Please see the Hopkins GIM Research page for the full range of on-going federally funded research in Hopkins GIM.