Managing an Academic Career

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Managing an Academic Career

• Faculty Development Things that Really Work
• SAEM 2008
• Gloria Kuhn, DO, PH.D
• Wayne State University

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Faculty Development

• Provides intellectual tools / skills
• Progression through career
• Accomplish your academic goals
• Attain position you desire
• Successful

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Basic Premises

• Foundation for your career
• Practical
• Applicable
• Guideline in progression

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Foundation

• Determine goals
• May / should change
• Prepare to attain goals
• Satisfying
• Worth
• Self
• Institution
• Specialty
• Promotion

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Basic Truths

• Your goals vs. Institutional/Department needs
• Study
• Institution
• Department
• Assess alignment
• Time management

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Universal ValuesCulture

• Research
• Teaching
• Service Definitions
• Institution
• Department
• Financial burden / necessity

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Revolutionin Values

• Traditional
• Current
• Institutional variation
• Institutions in flux
• Future ????
• Bunton, SA The Continued Evolution of Faculty
  Appointment and Tenure Policies at U.S. Medical
  Schools Acad Med 82, 2007

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Revolution

• Tracks
• No standardization
• Confusing
• Criteria change

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Maintenance of Excellence
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Getting Started

• Know your institution
• Determines bar
• Determines worth
• Determines success

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Johns Hopkins

• After adjusting for age, gender, time at rank,
  and work satisfaction, the odds of being at a
  higher rank were 85 less for academic clinicians
  (odds ratio,.15 95 confidence interval,
  0.06-0.40) and 69 less for teacher-clinicians
  (odds ratio,.31 95 confidence interval,
  0.11-0.88) than for basic researchers Thomas, PA,
  v.79 2004

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Website

• Promotion guidelines
• Policies
• Promotion criteria
• Timelines

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Guide

• Mentor
• Successful
• Knows the ropes
• Share information
• Location ??

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Promotion / TenureWorkshops

• Institutional
• Departmental

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Example

• Tenure required???
• NIH grant (s)
• Time line
• Up or out
• Tenure not required???
• Movement

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Statistics

• Basic Sci Faculty
• Total 17,416
• Full 6,449 (37)
• Assoc 3,897 (22)
• Assist 5,273 (30)

• Clinical Faculty
• 96,375
• 21,033 (22)
• 26,070 (27)
• 40,951 (42)
• AAMC 2005

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Statistics ()

• EM
• Full Prof 9
• Assoc 17
• Assist 61
• Other 13

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Know Your Department

• Interests of chair
• Support of chair
• Time requirements
• Support of scholarship
• Resources of department

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Making a Move

• Talk to faculty
• Look at support
• Look at promotion pattern
• Look at departmental resources

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Results of StudyCulture

• Alignment
• Time management
• Productivity
• Earn your keep
• Scholarly activity
• Teaching
• Documentation

Patients
Jobs
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Culture

• It is with great regret..

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Documentation

• Curriculum vita
• Institutional format
• Accurate
• Detail??
• Educators Portfolio

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Coins of the Realm

• Research
• Funded and published
• Awards
• Students
• Societies
• National recognition

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Scholarly Activity

• Dissemination Nieman Acad Med (72) 1997
• Publication
• Journals
• Guidelines
• Articles
• Syllabi
• Book chapters, book????
• On line????
• Presentations
• International / National / Regional

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Service

• Professional societies
• University /-
• Departmental
• Community

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Research

• Funded
• New knowledge
• Published
• Educational vs. clinical vs. basic science

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Teaching

• Will not get you promoted
• Wont get promoted without it
• Key
• Turn into scholarly activity
• Awards

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Politics of Success

• Become known
• Within the institution
• Within your specialty
• Be worth knowing
• Be of value

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Citizenship

• Service to university
• Become known
• Showcase talents
• Picked for tasks
• Known at promotion time

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Citizenship

• Service to specialty
• Getting involved
• Honoring commitments
• Perseverance
• Knowledge

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Knowledge Gains Respect

• Committees
• Collaboration
• Projects

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Whats a Niche???

• Do what you like to do
• Do it a lot
• Knowledge
• Experience
• Expertise
• Recognition

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Service to Colleagues

• Networking
• Nationally
• Locally
• Departmentally
• Collaboration
• Helping Emergency Medicine

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Summary

• Your goals
• Know the institution /department
• Find a guide
• Be of value
• Document