Philip Seo, MD, MHS, is an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore. He is director of both the Johns Hopkins Vasculitis Center and the Johns Hopkins Rheumatology Fellowship Program.
In This Issue
Like many of you, I wear many hats. Although in these pages I am the medical editor of The Rheumatologist, in my day job, I am the director of the Johns Hopkins rheumatology fellowship training program. Therefore, as an educator, I am particularly pleased that we have been able to dedicate this edition to education.
In these pages, you will read about how program directors from across the country have tackled challenges, ranging from quality improvement initiatives to reinventing fellow education in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Other articles focus on rheumatology fellows themselves, including who they are and lessons they should keep in mind as they embark upon their training. We also discuss innovations in how we train rheumatology fellows, including the increasingly important role played by rheumatology nurses and ultrasonographers.
We hope these articles will be of broad interest, because at the end of the day, we are all educators, even those of us who have not stood behind a podium in years. We educate our patients, and we educate each other. Taking a moment now and again to think explicitly about how we educate is a worthwhile endeavor for all of us.
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