A Practitioner’s Tips A Practitioner’s Tips for Balancing for Balancing Teaching, Service and Teaching, Service and ScholarshipScholarship

Kelly M. Smith, PharmD, FASHPKelly M. Smith, PharmD, FASHPAssociate Professor, Pharmacy Practice and Associate Professor, Pharmacy Practice and ScienceScienceDirector, Residency Program AdvancementDirector, Residency Program AdvancementUniversity of Kentucky College of PharmacyUniversity of Kentucky College of PharmacyClinical Specialist, Medication Use PolicyClinical Specialist, Medication Use PolicyUniversity of Kentucky HealthCareUniversity of Kentucky HealthCare

Study for BPS exam

Student organization advisor

Classroom teaching

Create new case

Update teaching portfolio

Complete resident evaluation

Attend national meeting

Prepare CE presentation

Student advisor

Conduct manuscript peer-review

Lead resident topic discussion

Deliver inservice presentation

Student rotationsAttend staff meeting

Submit grades

Hold office hours

Page Dr. Jones

Resident advisor

Take meeting minutes

Revise teaching philosophy

Assemble P&T Meeting Agenda Resident rotations

Create drug use guidelines

Attend resident preceptor meeting

Update course syllabusPrepare grant

application

Write test questions

Write manuscript

Design poster

Attend committee meetings

Submit IRB proposal

Interview residency applicants

Interview student applicants

National committee member

Conference call

Employee evaluations

Email

Voice mail

Document medication history

Verify medications

OutlineOutline

• Observations from experience Observations from experience in both clinical and tenure-track in both clinical and tenure-track positions at a research positions at a research universityuniversity• Incorporate patient care and Incorporate patient care and

institutional projects into a plan institutional projects into a plan for personal academic successfor personal academic success

Inquire

• Ability to create a job description– Agreement from department chair

and practice supervisor– Re-evaluate often

• Likelihood of finding protected time– The earlier, the better– Much is given, much is expected

Inquire

• Expectations of service, teaching and scholarship

• Perceived value of specific activities– Publications – quantity, peer review,

impact factor, scope, interprofessional– Advising – residents, students, student

organizations– Committee participation– Meeting attendance

Identify

• Successful colleagues in similar roles

• Mentors, advisors and confidantes– Feedback may be rare

• Focus for personal development• Short and long-term career goals• Political landscape

Investigate

• Resources to develop your skill set– Campus offices, research collaborators

• Suitable approaches to consulting– Role of a practice plan– Continuing education– Industry– Legal

Invest

• Expansion of your abilities• Projects to cultivate your expertise• Developing relationship with chair

and other colleagues• Professional network outside the

department, college and university

Implement

• New services, teaching models, and other innovations– Share your successes

• Residency programs• Carry projects through until

completion and assessment

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man

is a piece of the Continent, a part of the

main.

-John Dunne (1572-1631)

Integrate

• Culture and mission of environment• Students and residents in all

aspects of your position– Service, teaching and scholarship

• Become irreplaceable, yet adaptable

• Other disciplines

Integrate

Teaching

Service

Scholarship

Integrate

Teaching

Service

Scholarship

Independence

• Cultivate an independent reputation– Scholarship – first and senior author– Teaching – practice-grounded

innovation– Service – internally and externally

• Self-assessment of progress

Illustrate

• Demonstrate value and reproducibility of innovations, both internally and externally

• Visibility as contributor and good citizen

• Multiple roles of a contemporary clinician-educator to students and residents

Illustrate

• Scholarship• Portfolio• Curriculum vitae

– Projection in 5, 10, 20 years

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IIInquire

Identify

Investigate

Invest

Innovate

Implement

Integrate

Illustrate