Department of Internal Medicine "Mentoring Towards Promotion"
Mentoring towards promotion succeeds best when a relationship is established from the beginning of a faculty members employment. Career Mentors should be a senior colleague and who guide you through your first promotion ensuring your goals are met and you are promoted and tenured and will be assigned by the division director or the chair shortly after you arrive. Project Mentors, who may have strengths in other areas, may be added to assist based upon your professional goals. Feel free to recommend additional project mentors, seek them out on your own or by asking your career mentor for assistance with finding the "best fit" on this campus.
Faculty are always welcome to find additional mentors outside the Department of Internal Medicine and from other institutions.
In the Department of Internal Medicine mentoring relationships are driven by our eleven divisions and guidelines for connecting with a mentor are determined by each Division Director. Contact your director for more information or ask your Division Coordinator for additional help. At any time feel free to contact any member of the Faculty Development & Mentoring Committee or the Committee Chair, Dr. Susan Pingleton with questions or concerns.
Allergy/Clinical Immunology/Rheumatology
Patrick M. Moriarty, MD, Director
Daniel Aires, MD, JD, Stiefel Professor , Director
Endocrinology, Metabolism & Genetics
Leland Graves, III , Director
Gastroenterology/Hepatology/Motility
Mojtaba Olyaee, MD , Director
General and Geriatric Medicine
Stewart Babbott, M.D., Director
Peter J. Van Veldhuizen, MD, Director
Daniel Hinthorn, MD , Director
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Amy O’Brien-Ladner, MD, Director
Mentoring - what do we mean? "Mentoring" comes in all forms and varies based on the philosophy of who you ask. The style of mentoring is a personal preference. However, for the purpose of this guide and our goal for junior faculty to be promoted and tenured, please consider two mentoring definitions: 1) Informal mentoring on the fly is when you pop into a senior colleague's office or visit with them over lunch to discuss a concern, problem, "how-to" solution or to discuss whatever your needs are at the moment where by they help you get answers or solve problems. This help ultimately assists with reaching project goals and thus, promotion and tenure. 2) Formalized mentoring is a system where by a career mentor is a senior colleague with whom you schedule a meeting (at a frequency you deem helpful) to take an overall look at your career and determine if all your daily activities are on track with where you should be regarding promotion and tenure timeline issues. This can simply be to discuss the Annual Faculty Assessment six months before the completion deadline, to ensure there are no surprises. |
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A FACULTY MEMBER'S CAREER IS HIS OR HER RESPONSIBILITY THE MENTORING PROGRAM IS DESIGNED TO HELP THEM BE SUCCESSFUL IN MAKING THE APPROPRIATE DECISIONS TO ADVANCE THEIR CAREER. MERIT, ADVANCEMENT AND/OR PROMOTION ARE ASSESSED ACCORDING TO THE MISSION CRITERIA OF EACH ACADEMIC TRACK IN THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE |
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