Planning Your Promotion

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Planning Your Promotion

• Elizabeth Puscheck, M.D., M.S.
• Associate Professor
• Wayne State University

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Planning Your Promotion

• Promotion is earned not given
• Make your promotion automatic
• Start working on your promotion as soon as you
  get on the faculty
• Keep pushing the door open for opportunities
• Let your productivity speak for itself- excuses
  for lack of productivity generally do not help

Ravi
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Planning Your Promotion

• Set your Goals
• Obtain necessary tools/develop yourself
• Read the PT Guidelines for Your School
• Multiple Mentors Help
• Develop your timeline
• DOCUMENT YOUR TEACHING AND PRODUCTIVITY!!
• Tell people your plans and explain

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Goal

• Clinician-Educator Track
• What do I need to know?
• How do I need to develop myself?
• Who can help me?
• When do I need to get this done by?
• Where will I do this (local,regional, national)?

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ASK!!

• Chair wanted me to be Clerkship Director
• Opportunity
• Local Effects
• Medical School WideAsked to be nominated to the
  Executive Education Committee
• Regional/National Asked Chair to Nominate me to
  National Education Committees
• Asked to get training
• Plan to be Academic about Education!
• Chair can nominate but YOU must fulfill
  expectations!

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Teaching and Educating

• Were you trained in school?
• Its NOT innate!
• Get training!!!! Document training!
• Where? Here Center for Teaching and Learning
• AAMC Dr. Diane McGrane (www.aamc.org/members/facul
  tydev/)
• Specialty Societies
• APGO/Solvay Scholars Program (18
  months)-Competitive application,
• Am Col of Surgeons (Surgicaleducation.com),
• Council of Emerg Med Residency Directors (for
  Junior Faculty, cord_at_cordem.org),
• Radiology (www.aur.org/awardsprograms.html),
• Am Acad of Family Physicians (www.aafp.org),
• Am Physiol Soc
• Harvard Macy Program on Education
• Masters in Education

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Once Trained, Develop and Produce!

• Develop Innovative Programs
• Curricular design
• Educational studies
• National standards
• Submit abstracts and present
• PUBLISH, PUBLISH, PUBLISH
• Papers are your currency to promotion!

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PT Workshops

• AAMC Breakout sessions on career dev.
• Look at specialty society meetings
• Look locally
• Key Points
• Know your PG Guidelines
• Get internal and external advisors/mentors
• Plan your future

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WSU ASSOCIATE PROFESSORClinician-Educator Track

• Look on Website under Faculty Senate
• 1. Minimum 5 years at Asst Professor, board
  certified, Professional Organization memberships
• 2. Major teaching responsibilities and
  demonstrated teaching effectiveness (undergrad,
  grad, postgrad, and/or CME)
• 3. Appropriate scholarship (pubs, clinical
  reports in peer-reviewed journals)
• 4. Objective evid. of Excellence in Prof/Clinical
  activities
• 5. Some evidence of peer recognition as Acad
  Professional at Regional level
• 6. Willingness to accept and effectively assume
  admin and committee responsibilities

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What do the PT Guidelines really mean?

• Ask your chair
• Find out who is on your PT committee and ask for
  guidance
• Are there unwritten guidelines?
• Get a mentor outside of the department for
  perspective
• Get mentors outside of school

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Where am I?

• What are your strengths and weaknesses?
• How will you improve your weaknesses?
• How will you accent your strengths!?
• Develop a TIME LINE!
• Tell others (Division head, chair) and Stick to
  it!!!

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DOCUMENT, DOCUMENT, DOCUMENT!!!!

• Where?
• C.V.
• Teaching Porfolio
• Ask for Evaluations and tell others why you want
  it
• Improve your teaching
• Help with PT

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Part 3 of C.V. Teaching

• Years at WSU
• Years elsewhere (list)
• Courses taught at WSU
• Essays/Theses/Dissertations directed
• List student name, level, project, year
• Course or curriculum development
• Course materials (unpublished)

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C.V. Teaching

• Years at Wayne State University
• Affiliation with Wayne State University School of
  Medicine since 2001.
• Courses taught at Wayne State University
• 3rd Year Wayne State University Medical Student
  Advisor (1-3 students every 8 weeks)
• 3rd Year Wayne State University Medical Students
  OB/Gyn Core Lecture Series
• 3rd Year Wayne State University Medical Students
  on Clinical Rotation at University
• 4th Year Visiting Medical Students on Elective
  Rotation (one-on-one teaching)
• 4th Year Wayne State University Medical Students
  on Elective Rotation (one-on-one teaching)
• WSU OB/GYN Resident Clinical Rotation (one-on-one
  teaching)
• WSU OB/GYN Resident Gynecologic Ultrasound
  Training (one-on-one)
• WSU OB/GYN Resident Gynecologic Surgery Training
• WSU OB/GYN Resident Laparoscopy Training
  Laboratory (2000-2001)
• WSU OB/GYN Resident Mentor for 2 residents
• Visiting Residents for Clinical Reproductive
  Endocrine and Infertility Clinical Rotation
• (Providence Hospital, Down River, St Johns, and
  North Oakland Residents)
• St. Johns Hospital Rotating Resident Career
  Advisor (Cassie Laasch)- 2002
• Reproductive Endocrine and Infertility (REI)
  Fellows Lecture Series
• REI Fellow Gynecologic Ultrasound Training
• Allied Medical Health Teaching

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C.V.

• EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS (including computer
  programs)
• 1. PBL Cases for Hirsutism, Endometriosis,
  Climacteric, and Menopause for 3rd year WSU
  medical students. 2002.
• 2. Puscheck, EE. Everything You Wanted To Know
  About Infertility, But Were Afraid To Ask. Video
  for Abbot Laboratories personnel training.
  1998.
• 3. Puscheck EE, et al. Nutrition Clinician.
  Multi-disciplinary Demonstration video. Institute
  for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern
  University. 1998.
• 4. Puscheck EE, et al. Nutrition Clinician
  Computer Interactive Program. Institute for the
  Learning Sciences, Northwestern University 1998.

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NATIONAL AND LOCAL BOARDS AND COMMITTEES USMLE
Test Material Development Committee Clinical
Pathophysiology 1999-2000 Introduction to
Clinical Diagnosis 2001-2002 OB/GYN Step 2
Test Reviewer 2003-4 Association of Professors
in Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO) Undergraduate
Medical Education Committee (UMEC) 2000-2006 Amer
ican Society of Reproductive Medicine
(ASRM) Womens Council Executive Committee
Representative 2000-2002 Co-Chair 2003-2005 A
SRM Website Committee 2003 ASRM Postgraduate
Program Coordinator 2004 ASRM Postgraduate
Program Co-Chair 2005
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INVITED ACTIVITIES Requested by Roche and
GlaxoSmithKline Laboratories, BONIVA Ob/Gyn
Advisory Board Meeting for Osteoporosis 2004 AS
RM MODERATOR, Clinical Endocrinology 2000 ASRM
MODERATOR, Pediatric and Adolescent
Gynecology 2001 ASRM MODERATOR, General Program
Prize Paper Candidates Abstract
session 2003 ASRM Clinical Infertility
Gynecology Abstract Committee 2002 ASRM PRIZE
PAPER Committee Judge 2002, 2003 ASRM
Abstract Chair for Human Sexuality Special
Interest Group 2003, 2004 Requested by ASRM
Publications Committee to Edit and Author The
ASRM Book for Patients regarding Infertility
2003-2005 American College of Obstetrics and
Gynecology (ACOG) Annual Meeting Abstract
Selection Committee 2003 ACOG Postgraduate
Annual Meeting Course Director (REI) 2001-5
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Teaching Portfolio

• See Website on Faculty Senate Page
• Format is written
• Center for Teaching and Learning classes
• Part I Summary
• 1. Narrative Statement by Faculty Member
• 2. Quantitative summary of Facultys Teaching
  activities
• 3. Written evaluations (chair, teaching eval
  committee)
• 4. Data from student/resident evaluations of
  faculty members teaching
• Part II Appendices

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Narrative Statement

• Use this to define the special role in teaching-
• Teaching philosophy statement could be good tool
  to separate yourself from others
• Remember students or residents evaluations quite
  often are perfunctory- e.g a long big inclusive
  circle to all categories at once
• Average scores tend to be high 6-7 you need to
  show what is your unique contribution to
  teaching- special courses taught teaching
  materials developed pictorial guides etc.
• Remember teaching is the toughest activity to
  measure and most difficult to get promoted on
  unless there is recognition as a teacher at
  national level invited to develop and conduct
  courses etc see next two slides

Ravi
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Teaching Portfolio Part II

• Get a 3-ring binder
• Collect everything!
• Course syllabus
• Dates and Numbers of participants
• Request Evaluations
• Innovations
• Instructional guides and their use
• Curricular Design
• Awards for Teaching Excellence

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Managing Your Promotion

• Keep pushing the door open for opportunities
• Be ready to accept new assignments there is
  fine line between opportunity and obligation
• Let your division chief or department chair know
  of your interests
• Document, Document, Document!

Ravi
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External Letters

• Absolutely critical for promotion in the Clin-Ed
  or Research-Ed tracks and for tenure
• You will be asked by your division director or
  department chair for 6-8 names the department
  chair requests letters from three and three by
  the President of Faculty Senate executive
  committee (make sure these three are likely to
  give the strongest letters).

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External Letters

• Do not ask letters from realtives or those with
  whom you had close working relationship (e.g
  mentors unless several years removed and those
  with whom you had multiple projects or
  publications)
• But it is important the persons writing letters
  know you by your work or you know from prior
  scientific exchange
• It is OK to let them know that you have given
  their name

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Personal Statement

• Very important to define the theme of the
  research interest- particularly for clinical
  investigators who may publish on diverse topics
• For those who provide statistical or data base
  support- use personal statement to define what is
  service vs what is your special role or
  initiative

Ravi