Mini-Fellowship in Wellness Leadership

Apply for the 2026 cohort here.

Submission Deadline: December 18, 2025

Acceptance or Declinations Sent the week of January 19, 2026

Mini-Fellowship in Wellness Leadership 

The goal of this mini-fellowship is to provide Emergency Medicine residents with the knowledge and skills to effect positive change in the areas of well-being, resilience, and engagement at their programs and institutions. 

This mini-fellowship will take place over the course of one year. It will begin with a half-day workshop held during the CORD Academic Assembly 2026 and continue with a series of online journal clubs/didactics facilitated by faculty members of the CORD Resilience Committee. Each resident will be responsible for the development of a longitudinal wellness project with guidance from the mini-fellowship leadership and their mentors. All mini-fellowship residents will be included as members of the CORD Resilience Committee and encouraged to participate in projects sponsored by the Committee. Graduation from the program will take place at the CORD Academic Assembly in 2027.

By the end of this mini-fellowship, residents will be able to: 

• Understand and explain basic concepts relevant to wellness, including but not limited to resilience, mindfulness, positive psychology, burnout, and second victim syndrome/second trauma phenomenon.

• Reflect on their own styles (leadership, communication), beliefs, strengths, and weaknesses and understand how these facets of themselves affect their own wellness and how they might ameliorate any problems they find.

• Develop a plan for change management at their own institution, both current and future

Application Details

Emergency medicine residents in good standing are encouraged to apply based on the following:

• Residents may be from 3-year and 4-year programs.
• Applicants may be second- or third-year residents.
• Third year residents anticipating graduating in June 2027.
• No senior year residents graduating in 2026.
• No more than two residents from each residency program may apply.
• Eight to ten residents will be chosen for participation.
• Must attend in person the 2026 CORD Academic Assembly, March 25, 2026, in Orlando, FL.

A program fee of $100 will be collected at the time of acceptance into the course.

Meeting Commitments:

1. Half-Day Introductory Workshop at CORD AA 2026
2. Virtual Journal Club Series
   • Following the half-day workshop at the CORD AA 2026, residents will be expected to attend a series of online virtual journal clubs in which they will interact with faculty of the CORD Resilience Committee to discuss important topics in Wellness and Resilience by reviewing important articles on those topics. Each journal club will be followed by a facilitated roundtable discussion of the residents’ progress on their longitudinal projects. Sessions will occur in the evening (8 PM - 9:30/10 PM EST) on the third Wednesday of every other month. Sessions will be hosted virtually.  
   • Dates for 2026-2027 Virtual sessions: TBD
3. CORD AA 2027 to present innovation abstract.  

2026-2027 Leadership

Mentors:
Mentors are solicited from CORD membership (mainly from the Resilience Committee) and will provide guidance to the fellow on creating and implementing their project.  

2025-2026 Mentors:

Please email cord@cordem.org or a member of the fellowship leadership team (see above) with any questions.