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This concise, easy-to-read title addresses the wide variety of challenges that associate professors encounter in academic medicine. Derived from the broader acclaimed text, The Academic Medicine Handbook, this guidebook emphasizes cultivation of "soft" and "hard" skills and offers important insights on a range of topics, including cultivating a healthy life balance, how to manage personal finances, how to put together a promotion package, how to be a good mentor, how to lead committees, how to build a national reputation, how to understand budgets, and how to engage in strategic planning, to name just several topics covered. Associate professors are important to academic medicine-they represent the living "succession plan" for academic medicine, which has been entrusted with creating a better future for humanity. The continued career development of these individuals is crucial to their students, their colleagues, and their senior leaders. And yet, somehow, they often get stuck-findingdifficulties either navigating the politics of the academy, contributing to their field on a nation al scale, or seizing leadership opportunities. The Associate Professor Guidebook: Continuing the Journey to Professor addresses all of these issues and is an indispensable resource for associate professors who seek to deliberately and strategically progress in their career.
List of contents
Preface.- 1 How to Find Your Path in Academic Medicine.- 2 How to Build the Foundation for a Successful Career in Academia.- 3 How to Be Organized and Manage Time.- 4 How to Have a Healthy Life Balance as an Academic Faculty Member.- 5 How to Care for the Basics: Sleep, Nutrition, Exercise, Health.- 6 How to Manage Personal Finances.- 7 How to Create Your Package for Promotion.- 8 How to Build a National Reputation for Academic Promotion.- 9 How to "Pitch" a Nontraditional Career Path.- 10 How to Be an Effective Team Leader and Committee Member or Chair.- 11 How to Collaborate Interprofessionally.- 12 How to Evaluate and Give Feedback.- 13 How to Be a Good Mentor.- 14 How to Strengthen Your Own and Others' Morale.- 15 How to Network and Be a Good Colleague.- 16 How to Recognize and Address Unconscious Bias.- 17 How to Intervene with Unethical and Unprofessional Colleagues.- 18 How to Participate in Ethics Committees.- 19 How to Participate in Institutional Review Board Activities.- 20How to Think About Money in Academic Settings.- 21 How to Negotiate.- 22 How to Read a Basic Budget.- 23 How to Engage in Departmental Strategic Planning.
About the author
Laura Weiss Roberts, MD, MA (editor)Chairman and Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial ProfessorStanford UniversityDepartment of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences401 Quarry RoadStanford, CA 94305 USARobertsL@stanford.edu
Summary
This concise, easy-to-read title addresses the wide variety of challenges that associate professors encounter in academic medicine. Derived from the broader acclaimed text, The Academic Medicine Handbook, this guidebook emphasizes cultivation of “soft” and “hard” skills and offers important insights on a range of topics, including cultivating a healthy life balance, how to manage personal finances, how to put together a promotion package, how to be a good mentor, how to lead committees, how to build a national reputation, how to understand budgets, and how to engage in strategic planning, to name just several topics covered. Associate professors are important to academic medicine—they represent the living “succession plan” for academic medicine, which has been entrusted with creating a better future for humanity. The continued career development of these individuals is crucial to their students, their colleagues, and their senior leaders. And yet, somehow, they often get stuck—findingdifficulties either navigating the politics of the academy, contributing to their field on a nation al scale, or seizing leadership opportunities. The Associate Professor Guidebook: Continuing the Journey to Professor addresses all of these issues and is an indispensable resource for associate professors who seek to deliberately and strategically progress in their career.
