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Mentoring Overview

little and big jayhawks

2009 Awards to be presented Sept. 18, 2009

2008 Recipients
Prestigious
Mentoring Awards

Presented Sept. 19, 2008
stechschulte
Daniel Stechschulte, MD
"The Jayhawk"
Lifetime Achievement in
Mentoring Award
35 years of dedication to KU SOM

Cheney
Paul Cheney, PhD
"The Jayhawk"
Lifetime Achievement in
Mentoring Award
30 years of dedication to KU SOM

sullivan
Debra Sullivan, PhD, RD
1st Honorary Mentoring Award

Society of Distinguished Mentors

 

Shaping a Career in Academic Medicine: Guidelines for

mentor / mentee conversations

 

“The wonderful thing about life is that you cannot

succeed on your own (or fail on your own);

others are essential in defining who you are.”


Geoffrey M. Bellman, Author
Getting Things Done When You Are Not In Charge

The University of Kansas School of Medicine Mentoring Initiative is dedicated to enhance and support the environment which has created a place where everyone wants to come to learn, to teach, to conduct research and to receive his or her health care.  Members of the faculty will be strengthening through the leadership of a strong mentoring program which is based on the idea that junior faculty need both specific/content-oriented mentoring (e.g., specialty-specific career information) and content expertise (e.g., teaching skills, or professional writing skills used in grant writing, publications and manuscripts), as well as overall career advice relevant to advancing as a medical school faculty member.  A career mentor will be assigned to serve primarily in the second (general career) capacity, but may ask others to serve as project mentors in the first (content and specific) capacity. Focus of the program is on four critical skills:

  1. Managing a productive academic career in medicine:
    1. In support of your own academic career needs and desires, while
    2. In support of the institutions missions and goals.
  2. Understanding the formal (and informal/implicit) values, rules and operating procedures in academic medicine.
    1. Understanding criteria for advancement in your track, and
    2. Understanding how the merit and promotion system works
  3. Developing and sustaining a network of professional colleagues.
  4. Know where to go for advice, help and training.

Purpose

The primary purpose of this program is to provide a mechanism to assist and propel junior faculty (i.e., tenure earning or wishing to move to tenure track or not) through a smooth transition period from early in their career, promoting the advancement and retention of new faculty into our next generation of academic physician and research leaders.

A FACULTY MEMBERS 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.

To participate in the mentoring program contact your department chair, division chief, center director, or Dr. Robert Klein, Associate Dean for the Office of Professional Development and Faculty Affairs.

Documents & Tools

Mentors and Mentees may save time by using the following tools and forms developed to help prevent reinventing the “wheel of record keeping.”  Feel free to use, download and customize to fit your personal needs or those of the department, division or other organization.  For assistance, please contact Marty Gunion mgunion@kumc.edu in the Office of Professional Development and Faculty Affairs.

Department Resources

Director of FacultyDevelopment or Mentoring contacts at other medical schools:

Articles

MERIT, ADVANCEMENT AND/OR PROMOTION ARE ASSESSED ACCORDING TO THE MISSION CRITERIA OF EACH ACADEMIC TRACK IN THE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE