Junior Faculty Career Development

PURPOSE

The purpose of this site is to provide junior faculty with resources to help them develop productive and satisfying careers. Links are grouped by relevance to:

• Career planning,
• Mentoring and collaboration
• Research and funding
• Grants writing and scholarship
• Presentation and teaching skills
• Cross disciplinary perspectives (e.g., Health Disparities)

Attention is focused on recent trends in healthcare and their implications for faculty development. If you would like to suggest changes or additions or make corrections, please contact Dr. Lillian Trettin at trettinl@musc.edu

CAREER PLANNING

Steps to formulating an Academic Development Plan

Clarify and prioritize your goals
Identify your strengths
Set short and long term goals
Identify tasks and learning objectives to achieve goals
Write a learning contract for skill development
Negotiate the plan with your supervisor

Recording Achievements

Research

Grants submitted but not funded during calendar year
Grants funded during calendar year (new and continuation)
Publications published during calendar year
    Refereed
    Non-refereed
    Manuscripts accepted but not in print

Teaching

Awards
Innovations
Curriculum development
Teaching leadership (course director)
Student advising

Clinical Activities

Service Activities

University service
Departmental committees
Hospital committees
University-wide committees
    Membership/service in national, state, local
    professional/scientific organizations

Innovations

Miscellaneous efforts such as:
    a web-based tool design, curriculum development, instructional
    materials, any project supported as in-kind service, etc.

From:
" Repaving the Road to Academic Success: An Alternative Approach to Mentoring" Workshop, May 13, 2004 Society of General Internal Medicine

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Links

http://grants1.nih.gov/training/resources.htm
NIH hosts a site on research training opportunities that includes career development resources, examples of research policies, and links to scholars’ associations.

http://www.sgim.org/Handouts/am04/Workshops/WA11.pdf
This PDF contains the handout for a workshop on faculty development held at the 2004 meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine. Included is a self-assessment questionnaire useful in developing career goals

MENTORING AND COLLABORATION

http://www.drexel.edu/med/iwh/col/COL_Web.asp
This link at Drexel University offers a wide variety of resources on mentoring applicable to the medical university setting

http://www.sgim.org/Handouts/am04/Workshops/WA11.pdf
Repaving the Road to Academic Success, a workshop held at the 2004 meeting of the Society of General Internal Medicine, addressed collaborative, (or peer) mentoring among junior faculty members and the practicality of forming author-editor work groups

For more on these strategies, see also:

“ Helping medical school faculty realize their dreams: an innovative, collaborative mentoring program.” Pololi LH, Knight SM, Dennis K, Frankel RM. Academic Medicine. 2002 May;77(5):377-84.

http://info.ki.se/research/juniorfaculty/index_en.html
For an example of a well developed junior faculty site at an internationally known medical university, see this home page at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2003/09/10/6
Web-based training for new faculty at Canadian institutions includes interviews with senior professors. This article on Next Wave gives a brief description.

http://www.4woman.gov/owh/col/
This page links to four Centers of Leadership in Academic Medicine established by the Office of Women’s Health to facilitate mentoring that addresses women ’s interests.

http://www.aamc.org/meetings/past/minfac04/agenda.pdf
The Association of American Medical Colleges regularly schedules minority faculty career development seminars; this example is from 2004.

http://library.thinkquest.org/15569/index.html?tqskip1=1
For advising students, the Healthcare Career Resource Center provides information on High School, College, and Graduate School. It also includes an extensive bibliography of health career sources, print and online.

http://www.aaup.org/issues/index.htm
http://www.campus-adr.org/index.html
These links to the American Association of University Professors and the Campus Conflict Resolution Center offer advice on gender and power relations, workforce diversity, and conflict resolution

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GRANTS WRITING AND SCHOLARSHIP

http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/research/writing.htm
These are links related to grants writing available at Columbia University Medical Center’s “Faculty and Research” homepage.

http://www.sph.unc.edu/research/resources/handouts.htm
Handouts from a grants writing workshop held at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health in 2003 are available at this link.

http://www.drg.nih.gov/Video/Video.asp#docs
" Inside the NIH Grant Review Process" is a 39-minute video developed by the NIH Center for Scientific Review.

The video includes staged, but highly realistic, excerpts from reviews (by actual NIH committee members) of three NIH applications: an R01 (Research project grant), a K08 (Mentored clinical scientist career development grant). and an R03 (Small research grant). The presentation is invaluable for understanding what goes on “behind the scenes” during the scientific review process.

Copies of the proposals discussed on the video can be downloaded at http://www.drg.nih.gov/Video/video.asp#docs

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SCHOLARSHIP

http://www.lib.umn.edu/libdata/page_print.phtml?page_id=714
These links coordinated by the Bio-Medical Library at the University of Minnesota, address relevant aspects of writing for publication in the biosciences.

http://www.mssm.edu/wfg/ment.shtml
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Mentor Program
Scroll to the section on "Publications and Presentations" and click on:

• Authorship and Attribution: Wrongs, Rights, and Rewards
• Writing Papers in a Timely Fashion
• How to Read and Respond to a Journal Rejection Letter
• The Role of an Editor: A Delicate Balancing Act
• Dos and Don'ts of Poster Presentation
• Executive Presentation Skills

http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/feature/cdctoolkit.shtml
Funded by the Burroughs Wellcome Fund and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Academic Scientist's Toolkit at the NextWave Career Development Center.

Scroll to the section on "Publishing" and click on:

• Publishing @ the Top of the Heap
• Dealing with Peer Review
• Ethics of Authorship

http://www.nysna.org/departments/communications/publications/journal/scientific.htm
"Scientific Writing: A Skill for the Advancement of Nurses and Nursing"
The Journal of the New York State Nurses Association

http://www.med.wright.edu/fca/Articles/Journal.html
"Commentary: Helping Junior Faculty Become Published Scholars"
Academic Medicine, Vol. 74, No. 12/December 1999.

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PRESENTATION AND TEACHING SKILLS

http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/Academia/KierseyLearningStyles.html
Teaching With Style
This link to an online article focuses on the role of learning styles in higher education

http://www.kumc.edu/SAH/OTEd/jradel/effective.html
A faculty member at the University of Kansas offers this advice on making effective presentations.

http://helios.hampshire.edu/~apmNS/research/peeredit.html
A faculty member in natural sciences at Hampshire College offers this guidance on peer editing of writing assignments.

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PERSPECTIVES: Health Disparities

Health Disparities

http://kff.org/whythedifference/powerpoint.ppt
http://kff.org/whythedifference/speakerkit.htm
http://kff.org/whythedifference/news.htm
A speaker’s kit, power point presentation, and news page funded by The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation are useful for informing students and the public about health disparities

http://www.handsonhealth-sc.org/page.php?id=960
On this page is a contact for the SC public television series “Our Health” that covers a variety of issues related to health disparities (Scroll down the page to “Learn more.” Videos are available free of charge.)

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ENCOURAGING MINORITY STUDENTS TO ENTER HEALTH PROFESSIONS

Most racial and ethnic minorities are under-represented within the health professions. For example, just 10 percent of physicians, 8 percent of dentists, and 13 percent of registered nurses are African American, Hispanic, American Indian, Alaska Native, Hawaiian Native, or Pacific Islander. The U.S. population, on the other hand, is 29 percent minority and expected to grow to 41 percent by 2030. (AAMC 2002)

Opportunities for minority students to explore health careers can be found at:

http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/diversity/default.htm
U.S. Health and Human Services
Bureau of Health Professions
* information on training programs to promote diversity in health careers

http://bhpr.hrsa.gov/kidscareers/about.htm
Kids into Health Careers
* information on interesting younger students in the health professions and the need to encourage minority representation in health professions

http://www.aamc.org/students/considering/smep/start.htm
Association of American Medical Colleges and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Summer Medical Education Program
* prepares college students who are strong advocates for diversity and/or come from groups that are underrepresented in medicine for the competitive medical school admission process.

http://www.scahec.net/programs/sddp.html
South Carolina Area Health Education Consortium
Student Diversity and Development Program
* SC AHEC works closely with South Carolina’s state universities and other partners to educate, recruit, and retain health care providers. Their programs aim to encourage young people, especially minorities and the economically disadvantaged, to enter the healthcare professions.

http://grants1.nih.gov/training/extramural.htm
National Institutes of HealthResearch Training Opportunities
* information on loan repayment programs and on research opportunities for minority students, from high-school to doctoral

http://grants1.nih.gov/training/nrsa.htm#fellowships
National Institutes of Health
National Research Service Award Research Training Grants and Fellowships
* information on pre-doctoral fellowships for minority students

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RESEARCH AND FUNDING

http://www.scidea.org/
The South Carolina Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network lists a variety of funding opportunities.

http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/
This funding advice for health science researchers at the University of Washington is widely applicable.

http://www.nsf.gov/home/crssprgm/career/start.htm
The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program at NSF offers awards to new faculty to support early career-development activities that integrate research and education.

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-05-015.html
This page describes NIH Research Supplments to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (2004). This program announcement replaces an earlier one for Research Supplements for Underrepresented Minorities.

http://grants.nih.gov/grants/funding/funding_program.htm
NIH provides a brief description of all grant types, with links to each, at this site. Research supplements, career development awards, and Roadmap training initiatives are included.

MUSC PILOT PROJECTS

The following centers and programs at MUSC support pilot research which may particularly interest junior faculty (current as of August 2005):

Alcohol Research Center
http://www.musc.edu/arc/index2.html
Initial contact: Evans Jenkins jenkins@musc.edu
Program Director: Raymond Anton, M.D.
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Available amount: Small awards
Deadline: Variable; pending renewal
Topics: Clinical and basic science research on treatments for alcoholism; research with implications for treatment

American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant Program (Hollings Cancer Center)
URL: http://hcc.musc.edu/research/
Initial contact: Elisa Mundis mundise@musc.edu
Program Director: Carolyn Reed, M.D. Deputy Director, Hollings Cancer Center
Department/Division: Hollings Cancer Center
Available amount: $19,500
Deadline: September 2005 (date to be determined)
Topics: The sub-awards will be for one-year cancer-related research projects.
The ACS IRG is a block award to enable HCC to provide "seed money" grants (sub-awards) to beginning investigators who have no national competitive research grant support.

General Clinical Research Center Feasibility Funds
URL: http://www.gcrc.musc.edu/
Initial contact: Vickie Wickman, MBA, BSN wickmanv@musc.edu
Program Director: Peter Wilson, M.D.
Department/Division: General Clinical Research Center
Available amount: Small awards

Multidisciplinary Clinical Research Center (MCRC) for Rheumatic Diseases in African Americans
Initial contact: Ann Donaldson donaldsa@musc.edu
Program Director: Richard Silver, M.D.
Department/Division: Rheumatology and Immunology
Available amount: $50,000
Deadline: Fall
Topics: Patient-oriented research on rheumatic disease with emphasis on health disparities

MUSC University Research Committee Pilot Project (Office of Research & Sponsored Programs)
URL: http://research.musc.edu/urc/gen_info.htm
Initial contact: orsp-webmaster@musc.edu or (843) 792-3838
Program Development: University Research Committee
Available amount: Up to $25,000
Deadline: April 1, August 1, December 1
Topics: Provides seed money to explore new research ideas and provide preliminary finding necessary as the basis for external grant submission.

Neurobiology of Addiction Research Center
URL: http://neurosciences.musc.edu/research/narc/narc.html
Initial contact: Jacqueline McGinty, Ph.D. mcginty@musc.edu
Program Director: Peter Kalivas, Ph.D.
Department/Division: Neurosciences
Available amount: $25,000/grant
Deadline: Rolling
Topics: Research on treatments for drug addiction

Project EXPORT Center on Metabolic Syndrome, Pilot Project Core (Office of Special Initiatives)
URL: http://export.musc.edu
Initial contact: Robin McNeal mcnealr@musc.edu
Program Director: Leonard Egede, M.D.
Department/Division: Internal Medicine
Available amount: $25,000
Deadline: July 1, 2005
Topics: Patient-oriented research on the metabolic syndrome in underrepresented minorities. Patient-oriented research includes clinical research, nursing research, education research, health services research, epidemiological studies, and community-based interventions. Recipients must be minority investigators (graduate or post graduate students, clinical fellows, or junior faculty from MUSC or SCSU).

SC Center of Biomedical Research Excellence (COBRE) in Lipidomics and Pathobiology
URL: http://biochemistry.musc.edu/cobre/
Initial contact: Scott Reid reidsk@musc.edu
Program Director: Lina Obeid, M.D.
Department/Division: Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Available amount: Varies (~$75-150k/year direct costs)
Deadline: Variable; depends on available openings.
Topics: Study of bioactive lipids, their structure, metabolism, and function; project provides funding, core support and mentoring to junior faculty to assist them with obtaining independent R01 funding from NIH

SC Research Center for Minority Aging, Investigator Development Core
URL: http://scrcmar.musc.edu/index.asp
Initial contact: Shannon Hancock hancocks@musc.edu
Program Director: Barbara Tilley, Ph.D.
Department/Division: Biostatistics, Bioinformatics and Epidemiology
Available amount: $20,000
Deadline: June 1, 2005
Topics: Research to reduce health status and access differentials between African American elders and their majority counterparts. Recipients must be minority investigators who have not yet received RO1 funding.

Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) on Factors Affecting Women's Health (Women’s Research Center)
URL: http://www.musc.edu/wrc/id19.htm
Initial contact: Angela Waldrop, Ph.D. waldrop@musc.edu
Program Director: Kathleen Brady, M.D., Ph.D. and Carrie Randall, Ph.D.
Department/Division: Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Available amount: Small awards
Deadline: Variable
Topics: Research on sex and gender factors affecting women ’s health

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ADDITIONAL MUSC LINKS

Career Development

http://www.musc.edu/provost/faculty.html
This page at the MUSC Office of the Provost web site links to the Faculty Senate and promotion and tenure procedures at MUSC.

http://www.musc.edu/new/faculty.shtml
A “new faculty” link at MUSC offers Web-based resources, such as WebCT, and other resources of interest to new faculty. Designing a class with WebCT can help streamline the teaching process.

http://research.musc.edu
http://research.musc.edu/newinvest.html
http://research.musc.edu/inklings/cart.htm
Several links address funding potential at MUSC. Particularly useful is a link for new investigators. Current and archived issues of the newsletter “Inklings”provides news on pilot projects and fellowships.

http://research.musc.edu/res_musc.html
One way for junior faculty to identify potential mentors and collaborators is to explore relevant research databases. Using these links, you can search for MUSC faculty by name, title, agency, subject and keyword at myGrants (MUSC), CRISP (NIH), or Fastlane (NSF).

http://www.musc.edu/pharmacy/faculty_info/FacDev.shtml
Resources for grant and scientific writing are available as part of the MUSC College of Pharmacy's Faculty Resource Guide.

http://www.musc.edu/cae/index.htm
This link to the MUSC Center for Excellence describes services the University offers to enhance teaching skills and lists relevant faculty handouts.

http://www2.edserv.musc.edu/appletree/
The Apple Tree Society lists upcoming presentations and conferences, as well as resources on teaching and mentoring, with particular attention to technological advances.

Health Disparities

http://www.musc.edu/healthdisparities/
The site, MUSC Initiatives to Eliminate Health Disparities in SC, is under development as an umbrella for all MUSC programs on health disparities.

http://export.musc.edu/resources/resources.html
This link lists major Health Disparity-Related Projects at MUSC in 2003.

http://scrcmar.musc.edu/core_investigator.asp
http://exceed.musc.edu/Cores/CoreC.asp
http://scrcmar.musc.edu/project_summary.asp
These pages describe faculty and projects at MUSC that are relevant to health disparities, minority health, and minority aging.

http://scrcmar.musc.edu/funding.asp
http://exceed.musc.edu/NewsRoom/menu.asp
These pages at MUSC sites list requests for research proposals, conferences, and calls for papers related to health disparities, minority health, and minority aging.

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