The Associate Professor Guidebook: Continuing the Journey to Professor

ISBN-13: 9783319280004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 342 str.

Laura Roberts

Opis

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 finding difficulties 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."

Spis treści

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

20 How 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

O autorze

Laura Weiss Roberts, MD, MA (editor)

Chairman and Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor

Stanford University

Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

401 Quarry Road

Stanford, CA 94305 USA

RobertsL@stanford.edu