Defining milestones on the path to success in academic medicine The Individual Academic Plan

1. Defining milestones on the path to success in academic medicine The Individual Academic Plan Summary of AAMC Minority Faculty Development Seminar Bryan C. Batch, M.D. Duke University Medical Center September 20, 2011

2. Disclosure Information

3. Disclosure Information Dr Batch has not had any financial interest or other relationship with manufacturer (s) of the product (s) that will be discussed in this presentation. This presentation will not include discussion of pharmaceuticals that have not been approved by the FDA. There will be no discussion or unapproved “off label” uses of pharmaceuticals.

4. Background • Presentation is based on information presented at the AAMC Minority Faculty Development Seminar in September 2010 • Most of the information from presentations by: • Fernando S. Mendoza, M.D., M.P.H., Stanford University, School of Medicine • Professor and Chief, Division of General Pediatrics • Lucile Salter Packard Children’s Hospital • Associate Dean of Minority Advising and Programs • Giselle Corbie-Smith, M.D., M.Sc., University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill • Associate Professor, Department of Social Medicine, and Medicine • Director, Program on Health Disparities, Sheps Center for Health Services Research. • Deputy Director, North Carolina Translational and Clinical Sciences Institute,

5. At the conclusion of this talk my hope is that: • You will be able to develop an individual plan for: • -Setting and tracking overall career milestones • -Setting goals for writing and publishing manuscripts

6. Chapters in an academic career Medical Instructor Assistant Professor Associate Professor Professor

7. Career Planning • Allows you to prioritize activities for current chapter • Allows you to forcast/plan for what will be central to your professional life during different chapters: • -Research, teacher, mentor, role model, institutional change agent, community activist • -Tenure • Having choices depends on focusing on scholarly productivity early Rockequemore and Laszolffy, The Black Academics Guide to Winning Tenure Without Losing Your Soul

8. The ABC’s of success Awareness • Identify your career goals and match your goals to choice in career path Belief • Believe that you can succeed Confidence • Have confidence in your scholarship skills

9. What skills are required for success? • Teaching • Leadership skills • Asking important research questions and hypothesis development • Study design • Epidemiology • Biostatistics • Primary data collection • Database management and statistical programming • Ethics and regulatory issues involving human subjects • Critical appraisal and literature synthesis • Scientific writing • Grant writing • Presentation skills • Survival skills-(e.g. human resource management, budgeting, job seeking, negotiation) • Genomics and proteomics • Other -behavioral, HSR, cost-effectiveness

10. Preparing for Productivity • Find passion and niche • Manage career, life and time • Understand the rules of the game • -Currency of academia • -Tenure clock • Understand what opportunities there are at each phase of your career • Concentrate on different skills at different phases

11. Preparing for Productivity • Learn collaborative skills and collaborate with senior faculty • Be intellectually curious • Respect diversity-appreciate differences among your peers, staff and mentees • Look critically at oneself • Network • Persistence and tenacity

12. Your 5-year planDeveloping and executing a strategic plan • Identify your professional goals • Outline your projects and tasks • Map your projects onto time • Execute the plan on a daily basis • Create accountability and support Rockequemore and Laszolffy, The Black Academics Guide to Winning Tenure Without Losing Your Soul

13. Individual Academic Plan • Putting it all together means putting yourself on the line to meet a time table. • The more realistic the more valuable • Seek support from chief and chair with the help of your mentor(s) • Frequent reviews of your IAP by you and outside reviewer (senior faculty, chief, chair) will be most valuable.

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19. Writing Strategies • Must know number and type of manuscripts needed for promotion (First author, journal type, conceptual or data driven) • IAP should include number per year and from which projects • Outline main papers at the beginning of a research project

20. Writing Strategies • Block out 30-60 min everyday to write and only write • -Identify target journals early in writing process • -Understand surface and deep structure for journal • Create a plan for completion • -Create accountability in writing groups, mentors

21. Sample Publication List

22. Time Management Top 10 List David Newman-Toker, J. of Invest Med. May 2004 10. Do not check e-mail every 10 minutes 9. Automate repetitive tasks 8. Limit times to communicate with patients 7. No national meetings unless you are presenting and published last year’s abstract 6. When you fall behind work backwards 5. Titrate effort to importance, not time available, break large tasks into small chunks 4. Allow yourself to procrastinate productively 3. Schedule first important things that lack “official” deadlines. “Sharpen the Saw” 2. Be balanced, create mandatory fun and personal time 1. Treat depression and dysthymia aggressively

23. Resources for Faculty Development • Association of American Medical Colleges • -https://www.aamc.org • Office for Faculty Development -Contact Number: (919) 684-4139 -http://facdev.medschool.duke.edu • Department of Medicine -http://medicine.duke.edu