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This concise, easy-to-read guidebook is designed as a go-to resource for clinician educators working to establish the foundation for a successful academic career. This book begins with preliminary lessons such as interviewing for a first faculty position, how to prepare a robust curriculum vitae, how to evaluate a letter of offer, and understanding the process of academic promotion. Further chapters highlight the refinement of essential academic skills, including how to effectively give a lecture, how to approach clinical supervision, incorporating technology in educational innovation, and how to give feedback, among other topics. Chapters pertaining to clinical care cover a range of topics, including how to maintain excellent clinical documentation, how to evaluate clinical research, and how to avoid medico-legal problems. Clinician educators, while essential to the academic workforce, often feel overwhelmed by the newness and breadth of responsibilities that go with their first faculty job. Addressing that problem, this guidebook also emphasizes careful attention to preserving a healthy work/life balance as clinician educators navigate the demands of their professional and personal lives. The Clinician Educator Guidebook: Steps and Strategies for Advancing Your Career is derived from the larger acclaimed text, The Academic Medicine Handbook, and is an indispensable resource for a unique group of dedicated faculty who play an essential role in academic medicine.
List of contents
1How to Find Your Path in Academic Medicine.- 2How to Build the Foundation for a Successful Career in Academia.- 3How to Have a Healthy Life Balance as an Academic Physician.- 4How to Interview for a First Academic Position.- 5How to Evaluate a Letter of Offer or Contract.- 6How to Give a Lecture.- 7How to Use Technology in Educational Innovation.- 8How to Approach Clinical Supervision.- 9How to Evaluate and Give Feedback.- 10How to Approach Mentorship as a Mentee.- 11How to Write a Case Report.- 12How to Review a Manuscript.- 13How to Understand flaws in Clinical Research.- 14How to Maintain Excellent Clinical Documentation.- 15How to Avoid Medico-legal Problems.- 16How to Prepare the Best Possible Curriculum Vitae.- 17How to Understand Promotion Criteria for "Clinician Educator" and "Teaching" Tracks.- 18How to Create Your Package for Promotion.- 19How to Develop an Educator's Portfolio.- 20How to Build a National Reputation for Academic Promotion.
About the author
Laura Weiss Roberts, MD, MA
Stanford University School of Medicine
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Stanford, CA, USA
Summary
This concise, easy-to-read guidebook is designed as a go-to resource for clinician educators working to establish the foundation for a successful academic career. This book begins with preliminary lessons such as interviewing for a first faculty position, how to prepare a robust curriculum vitae, how to evaluate a letter of offer, and understanding the process of academic promotion. Further chapters highlight the refinement of essential academic skills, including how to effectively give a lecture, how to approach clinical supervision, incorporating technology in educational innovation, and how to give feedback, among other topics. Chapters pertaining to clinical care cover a range of topics, including how to maintain excellent clinical documentation, how to evaluate clinical research, and how to avoid medico-legal problems. Clinician educators, while essential to the academic workforce, often feel overwhelmed by the newness and breadth of responsibilities that go with their first faculty job. Addressing that problem, this guidebook also emphasizes careful attention to preserving a healthy work/life balance as clinician educators navigate the demands of their professional and personal lives. The Clinician Educator Guidebook: Steps and Strategies for Advancing Your Career is derived from the larger acclaimed text, The Academic Medicine Handbook, and is an indispensable resource for a unique group of dedicated faculty who play an essential role in academic medicine.
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"This is a concise, easy-to-read guidebook for clinician-educators working to establish the foundation for a successful academic career. ... The intended audience includes a wide range of healthcare professionals who are early in their careers working as clinician educators in academic institutions. ... this guidebook acts a bit like a mentor that you can keep in your coat pocket." (Michael Easton, Doody's Book Reviews, September, 2016)
