The Center for Medical Education was established to foster excellence in medical education. It was founded in 2012 as the Teaching and Learning Center. In 2023, it was expanded and renamed the Center for Medical Education. The center provides a forum for YSM educators to find mentorship and educator-development opportunities and has served as the medical campus hub for medical education research and scholarship. The center supports educational programming throughout YSM by providing expertise, consultation, and support for curriculum development and innovation, pedagogy, learner assessment, the learning environment, and program evaluation. 

The center’s programs and resources are developed and offered to the YSM community across undergraduate, graduate, and continuing medical education. A robust offering of educator development programs cultivates a vibrant community of YSM educators. These include the Medical Education Discussion Group (MEDG) series, the Yale Medical Educator Series (YES!), and Medical Education Day at Yale, an annual conference that showcases excellence and innovation in medical education. For those interested in developing a career in the field of medical education, the center offers a Master of Health Science in Medical Education degree program, a fellowship for education scholars, and a longitudinal medical education concentration for students.

Center faculty and staff provide one-on-one and group consulting. Teaching observations are also available wherein a center faculty observer watches a teaching session, records feedback, and meets with the educator privately afterward to review feedback.

For more information visit https://medicine.yale.edu/center-for-medical-education.

YAle Continuing Education for healthcare professionals

Yale Continuing Education for Healthcare Professionals promotes lifelong learning through the delivery of continuing education programs that strengthen knowledge, clinical skills, and evidence-based patient care, promoting measurable improvements in professional performance, team-based care, and patient outcomes across practice settings. For more information about these programs and services, visit https://medicine.yale.edu/cme.