About Us
The Leischner Institute for Medical Education (LIME) at the Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine (SSOM) has several objectives including faculty development, research and scholarship in medical education, advancing medical professionalism, promoting ethical and humanistic clinical care, and service to local and national communities of patients and their families.
The most important asset under the LIME purview is an interdisciplinary corps of Loyola faculty members who become faculty fellows within the Institute. LIME faculty fellows receive frequent , active professional mentoring; conduct and participate in conferences and seminars; engage in health professions education research and scholarship; contribute to national programs of medical faculty enrichment under auspices of the Association of American Colleges (AAMC) and other organizations; and seek external funding for education and research projects at SSOM and in collaboration with other medical schools in Chicago and elsewhere.
Initial appointment and continuation as a LIME faculty fellow (renewable three year terms) requires fulfillment of several basic criteria.
- Appointment as a full-time faculty member within the Loyola University Chicago Health Sciences Campus (HSC).
- A letter of endorsement from one's department chairperson or other responsible administrative official.
- Participation in individual and group professional mentoring activities that address career advancement.
- Participation in an individual or group research project that addresses a research question in health professions education that is expected to produce scholarly products (i.e., journal articles).
- Active involvement in monthly conferences (e.g., seminars, grand rounds presentations, webinars) that address topics in health professions education.
- Presentation of individual or group research projects at the annual Leischner Institute Conference on Medical Education which is held in May of each year.