Objective: Clinician-educators, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds, often have a longer trajectory to promotion for various reasons: focus on clinical activity, inattention to promotion requirements, underappreciation of scholarly value of existing activities. This session can provide course correction for mid-career faculty and a blueprint for trainees/early-career faculty. At the conclusion, participants will be able to identify self-advocacy techniques and assess their contributions through the lens of the promotion committee.
Methods: Workshop Agenda:
Self-advocacy strategies:
- Don’t Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste – develop skills/reputation, create new programs
- Cultivate Collaborations – develop interdisciplinary projects, network
- Create Your Own Luck – take on a “hard” job, find synergy with institutional strategic priorities
- Storytelling – become familiar with promotion checklist, create a compelling narrative
Ways to overcome barriers:
- Find your Purpose (small group activity)
- Strengthen Your Core –training courses, subspecialty societies, accountability groups
- Counter Self-Defeating Insecurities – impostor syndrome, stereotype threat, time management
Case study of a mid-career faculty member’s pathway to promotion
Results: Interactive Components:
Participants will share obstacles to achieving academic promotion (polling)
Small Group Activities:
- Finding Your Purpose (self-assessment)
o Ikigai
- Repackaging Strategies
o Identify underutilized aspects of your CV that align with institutional priorities (e.g., workflow efficiency, patient safety/education, medical education)
- SWOT Self Analysis
o Identify strengths, weaknesses; know where opportunities exist; anticipate threats to progress towards promotion
Conclusion/ Discussion: Take Home Product: Participants will receive a resource toolkit including self-assessment tools, training courses, elements of the promotion packet, and a framework for their Individualized Development Plan.
Topics: Faculty Development Seminar, 2023, Faculty, Professionalism, Systems-Based Practice & Improvement, Practice-Based Learning & Improvement, CME,
