The Michigan Medicine Administrative Fellowship is a two-year program designed to provide an exceptional foundation for those seeking a career in academic health center administration.
Fellows regularly meet with members of the Leadership Team to form mentor-relationships. Early meetings focus on building institutional knowledge of the health system, discussion of goals and interests, and potential project and rotation opportunities. Altogether, with additional health system leadership, Fellows are provided professional guidance and personalized developmental support throughout their fellowship experiences.
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The Michigan Medicine Administrative Fellowship is a two-year program aimed at laying a robust groundwork for individuals aspiring to administrative careers in academic health center management. This fellowship provides the rare opportunity to collaborate with and gain insights from administrative and clinical leaders within a health system that encompasses a highly-ranked medical school, as well as top-tier hospitals and health centers.
The cornerstone of the fellowship at Michigan Medicine is the opportunity to immediately participate and directly add value to institutional priorities working alongside health system leadership. The fellowship at Michigan Medicine is focused on continuous learning and is committed to developing the best and brightest talent to lead health care and academic medicine.
Early Meetings
Early meetings focus on building institutional knowledge of the health system, discussion of goals and interests and potential project and rotation opportunities. Altogether, with additional health system leadership, Fellows are provided professional guidance and personalized developmental support throughout their fellowship experiences.
First Year
Year one of the fellowship emphasizes high-impact project work aimed at advancing institutional priorities while cultivating core health care leadership competencies. Fellows also support executive-level meetings to observe first hand enterprise management and decision making.
Second Year
Year two of the fellowship is structured as a customizable immersion that thoughtfully allows for continued growth and contribution to the health system. During the immersion, the fellow serves as an embedded resource under the direction and mentorship of preceptors and supervision of selected area leads. Through progressively more rigorous responsibilities, the fellow will work on initiatives that further align and integrate the clinical, research, and educational missions of the academic medical center.
Applications for the 2025 - 2027 Michigan Medicine Administrative Fellowship program will be accepted beginning June 1, 2024. Applications are due by 5pm EST on September 9, 2024. Click Here to Apply to the Administrative Fellowship Program.
Members of the Michigan Medicine Administrative Fellowship Senior Leadership team help fellows understand how academic medical center leaders meet the challenges of balancing priorities across our tripartite mission of patient care, research, and education as one health system. They are also responsible for mentoring and supporting the professional development of administrative fellow(s) throughout the two-year fellowship by evaluating fellows’ performance and assisting them with relationship-building with other individuals across Michigan Medicine.
The Fellowship includes core responsibilities and projects based on the fellow's interests and the institution's priorities. The fellow will pursue a variety of leadership development opportunities in a framework of continuous learning. Examples of past projects can be seen here.
Projects are solicited on an ongoing basis, both formally through an institute-wide request and informally through conversations with leaders and needs of the institute. . Once the scope, duration, and deliverable for a project has been mapped out, the fellows review the proposal to decide who takes on which project, based upon interests and bandwidth. Fellows are also encouraged to discuss potential projects with the Senior Leadership Team, mentors across Michigan Medicine, and alumni of the program, who all help guide fellows to select projects that best support their individual career development goals.
Fellows are encouraged to start the Fellowship by outlining their goals and objectives for both their short-term and long-term career goals. Through continuous discussions with preceptors and other mentors, fellows are encouraged to continually seek out experiences that would assist them in achieving these goals and objectives.
Fellows are encouraged to begin discussions regarding career transition with the program preceptors as early as the beginning of the 2nd year. Fellows typically begin looking for jobs within the last 4-6 months of the fellowship.
Fellows receive continuous feedback from their project preceptors through the course of their projects. Formal feedback is collected every 6-months, and this feedback is shared with members of the Senior Leadership Team. The Senior Leadership Team provides continued feedback from both informal and formal feedback during regularly scheduled 1:1 meetings.
Fellows receive support to attend select conferences of their choice over the course of the fellowship. Fellows also have the opportunity to attend several classes that are offered within Michigan Medicine, and there is potential for support for further professional development opportunities outside of Michigan Medicine.
The structure of the fellowship program exposes individuals to a breadth of experiences critical to developing as a leader within healthcare administration. During the program, fellows also work on various strategic initiatives, while receiving support and mentorship from senior leaders. Through these experiences, fellows develop their analytical, communication, project management, organizational, and leadership skills.
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