Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH)Office of Faculty Development (OFD)

Mid-Career Faculty Development

S. Jean Emans, MD, Faculty DirectorMaxine Milstein, MBA, Administrative Director

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Mid-career faculty at HMS• No mandatory limits on time at rank or tenure at HMS affiliated hospitals• Definition variable – proposed Instructor > 15 years Assistant Professor > 10 years Associate Professor < 5 years

2009 Mentoring survey of HMS and HSDM women faculty •Areas of mentoring concerns - Important - Not met or met - Gap = important and unmet

•Participants identified a desire for more comprehensive and targeted mentoring to address gaps that varied by rank, research focus, parenting, and work time status.

Blood EA, Ullrich NJ, Hirshfeld-Becker DR, Seely EW, Connelly MT, Warfield CA, Emans SJ. Academic women faculty: are they finding the mentoring they need? J Womens Health. 2012 Nov; 21(11):1201-8.

Results from 2009 Survey

Mentoring gaps•Most common - identified by 52% of respondents-Developing and achieving career goals -Negotiation skills•Assistant Professors – writing and publishing articles•Associate Professors – program development/strategic planningOther Findings- Lower ranks – desire for mentorship for advancement (research and lecturing skills, getting national recognition)- Instructors >15 years – were less likely to have mentors- Part-time faculty – older children, less mentorship, in rank longer

Strategies to enhance mentoring need to address career stages and include a framework for assessing mentoring gaps

BCH OFD Initiatives

• Annual career conferences – form on website including career customization

• One-on-one meetings for mid-career faculty to review career trajectory and CV with S. Jean Emans, MD

• One-on-one meetings for department heads to review faculty progress with S. Jean Emans, MD

• Mentoring – consultation, programs, guides• Cultural awareness and competency training specifically

designed for faculty• The Academy at Children’s (Medical Education)• Harvard Medical School/Hospital Courses

- Mentoring

- Leadership Development

Examples of OFD Mid-Career Faculty Seminars

• Promotion seminars co-presented by Harvard Medical School Office for Faculty Affairs – Carol Bates, MD,

Bethany Westlund, PhD – and BCH Faculty• Successful Strategies for Writing and Renewing your

R01 – Ellen Grant, MD, Wayne Lencer, MD, Scott Pomeroy, MD, PhD• Medical Leadership: Managing in Uncertain Times –

Vincent Chiang, MD• Authorship and Best Practices for Addressing

Disputes – Melissa Brodrick, MEd• Managing Up – Melissa Brodrick, MEd• Recommendations and References: Navigating

Challenging Situations – Theodore Sectish, MD, Ellen Rothstein, JD, Carolyn Stetson• Running Effective Meetings – Frederick Lovejoy, MD