MaineHealth

Teaching (Medical and Interprofessional Education Program)Educating and training healthcare professionals is vital to MaineHealth's mission. This is a critical component to the delivery of quality health care and developing the health care workforce. To that end we have established a number of robust training and education programs. MaineHealth's flagship hospital, Maine Medical Center (MMC), has a long history of educating medical students, residents, interprofessional providers and faculty. (Continued on Schedule O)(Continued from page 2 of 990, Line 4b) The Department of Medical Education, with a staff of 80, manages multiple educational programs and resources. Education programs span undergraduate medical education, graduate medical education, and interprofessional provider education. Education services include the Hannaford Center for Safety, Innovation and Simulation, Library and Learning Commons, and the Journal of Maine Medical Center.In undergraduate medical education, the Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) - MaineHealth Maine Track Program, known as the "Maine Track", was established in 2008 and offers a unique and innovative curriculum, exposing students to rural practices and training in a major tertiary medical center. There are 40 matriculants in each TUSM class dedicated to the Maine Track. Much of the curriculum is based in Maine, particularly in the 2nd through 4th years of medical school. MMC developed a unique 9-month Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship offered at MMC and in 9 community hospital sites. 86 graduates of the Maine Track who have completed their residency programs are working in Maine as of 2024. Additionally, clerkship students from the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine rotate through MMC and MaineHealth sites annually. In graduate medical education, MMC has 15 residency programs, 2 rural residency tracks, 1 rural concentration and 17 fellowships, all approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Currently there are approximately 333 physician residents and fellows. Historically, about 40% of MMC's residency graduates have stayed in Maine to practice. Our graduates also go on to outstanding fellowship programs. In addition to physician postgraduate education, MMC and Tufts University School of Dental Medicine sponsor an Advanced Education in General Dentistry residency program. In addition, MMC established a critical care advanced practice provider residency program in 2021.The Hannaford Center for Safety, Innovation and Simulation is a hub for interprofessional training at MaineHealth. Simulation advances patient safety by leveraging advanced technology as well as our simulated patient program to realistically recreate clinical scenarios to enable teams to practice and test and improve their clinical systems. Events occur both at our state-of-the-art 15,000 square-foot training center and "in situ" in clinical settings across Maine.Significant FY24 accomplishments include: Undergraduate Medical Education-Twelve of the TUSM-MaineHealth Maine Track medical students who graduated in 2024 remained in Maine to complete their residency.-Completed a second grant sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association of American Medical Colleges to expand the education of the training curricula, "Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Learning: A Novel Training Tool for Addressing COVID-19 Health Misinformation".-Initiated an Art in Medicine elective class for medical students in partnership with Portland Museum of Art to emphasize practicing perspective, curiosity and stress tolerance that was highly successful and highlighted in the local newspaper.-Successful continuation of a medical education pathway program, Inside Medicine, hosted 124 high school students across Maine over the course of the school year through monthly virtual sessions.Graduate Medical Education-Four new academic tracks were developed and launched in Spring 2024. The four tracks are: Clinician-Educator and Leadership Track (CELT) for Residents, CELT for Fellows, Research Track for Residents, and Clinical Informatics Track Residents and Fellows.-Maine Medical Center Graduate Medical Education (GME) was the founding grant member of the new state-wide Maine Rural GME Education (MERGE) Collaborative, funded by the State of Maine, to increase the number of rural GME electives across the State and create a de novo learning platform, the "Interprofessional Healthcare Learning Platform" (iHELP-ME), focused on rural and underserved learning resources for all interprofessional healthcare students and faculty across the state. 35 new rural GME electives were established across the State of which thirteen are at MaineHealth hospitals.-GME received a $750,000 HRSA grant to support the development of MaineHealth's first rural FM residency program at Franklin Memorial Hospital. The residency will train two residents/year and is scheduled to launch in July 2027. Advanced Practice Provider Residency Program-The Advanced Practice Provider Critical Care Residency program (APP) was initiated in October 2021 with two APP residents. In 2023 the class expanded to four and it became the first accredited APP residency in Maine and the 10th in the nation to be accredited with the Advanced Practice Provider Fellowship Association (APPFA) through the American Nurses Credentialing Center. To date, eight APP residents have successfully completed the program. Six of the eight (75%) have been hired to Maine Medical Center ICU positions. The cohort that began in April 2024 will complete their residency in March 2025.-April 2025 will mark the start of the 7th cohort of APP residents. This will bring the total to 14 APP residents who have committed to the 12-month program. Of this total, seven are Nurse Practitioners and seven are Physician Assistants. -In FY24, the APP Education Office facilitated approximately 216 APP student placements within MaineHealth. Students from 28 institutions of higher education rotated through the MaineHealth system in FY24.Simulation-In collaboration with the HRSA-funded Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies (RMOMS) program, the Hannaford Center for Safety, Innovation and Simulation (Sim Center) launched Maine Obstetric Medical Simulation (MOMSim 2.0), a telesim supported, locally driven, on-going obstetrical emergency simulation program at 12 hospitals across Maine.-In partnership with Emergency Medicine, the Sim Center hosted Paramedics and EMTs from across Maine at two immersive workshops emphasizing prehospital care for pediatric, neonatal and obstetrical emergencies.-The Sim Center expanded annual faculty development offerings with an Advanced Debriefing workshop, 3-day Simulation Instructor Course, and Simulation Instructor Course designed specifically to support nurse educators.-The simulation center conducted more than 568 events for more than 5892 participants in FY24.