Tips and Tricks for Managing Multiple Programs ft. Kimberley Brown

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In this episode, I spoke with Kimberley Brown, fellowship coordinator at the Department of Anesthesia at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, about what it’s like to manage multiple fellowship programs.

Running a graduate medical education program takes time, effort, patience and support. Managing multiple programs requires a special management style and varying approaches to working with ever-expanding permutations of program leadership, faculty, trainees and other stakeholders.

In this episode, you’ll find out how Kimberley:

• Coordinated the timing and needs of multiple program recruitment/educational cycles.
• Worked with various program directors across subspecialties.
• Ensured that many groups of applicants could seamlessly apply across programs.
• Kept the myriad recruitment processes organized alongside her other responsibilities.
• Adapted multiple program management to the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Managed applicant and faculty communication in addition to her own schedule.

Kimberley Brown, who has been at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for 25 years, started out as a Medical Assistant who stumbled in the world of Academic Medicine by working in UME clerkships and sub-internships. After returning to patient care, she spent 10 years doing training and project support in revenue cycle operations. Kimberley has been working in the Department of Anesthesiology as the Fellowship Coordinator for the last three years.

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