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Title: Getting Promoted: Its not an accident


1
Getting Promoted Its not an accident
  • Louis J. Ling, MD
  • Professor of Emergency Medicine
  • Chair, Department P T Committee
  • Associate Dean for GME
  • University of Minnesota Medical School

2
Is it important?
  • Tenure to keep your job?
  • Teaching hospital not necessary
  • Pride
  • Respect for the specialty in the school
  • If its not important to you, go to the pool

3
For the academic resident(Pick the right job)
  • Where do you want to work?
  • What type of academic life do you want?
  • Do you mostly want to teach?
  • Can you get promoted for teaching?
  • Go where they value YOUR skills.

4
The academic resident(getting the right job)
  • Start looking in your 2nd year
  • What do they want from you?
  • Do you need a fellowship?
  • What is their timing?
  • Start your productivity
  • Keep in contact with the Chair
  • Visit, make friends, hang out at meetings

5
How to Play the Game
  • Getting into your residency an accident?
  • Getting into med school obsess about it
  • Get a good advisor
  • Volunteer
  • Do research
  • Perform (get good grades)

6
Its not an accident
  • What do PD do ?
  • PD usual work does not lead to promotion
  • Recruitment, remediation, conferences, didactics,
    duty hour monitoring, etc
  • PD need to do more than the usual
  • Need to do something new

7
Long Term Plan
  • Clinical Scholar vs Teaching vs Traditional
  • Understand your school requirements
  • Pick a mentor/advocate/advisor
  • Talk to successful peers (other PDs)
  • Get famous outside your school
  • Focus your scholarly work
  • Keep evaluations from everywhere

8
Pick a track (with your boss)
  • Traditional
  • PDs have too much education, no research
  • Clinical/Adjunct
  • For affiliated faculty
  • Clinical Scholar/Teaching
  • Rewards education
  • Research requirement varies among schools

9
Know promotion requirements
  • Every school has written criteria
  • Set annual goals to reach the criteria
  • Review your goals every year with chair
  • Meet chairs schedule
  • What is the process in your school?
  • What is the process in your department?

10
Typical Promotion Process (new)
  • Chair or department talks to you
  • Department P and T reviews
  • Collect your dossier
  • School P and T recommends
  • Dean recommends
  • AHC recommends
  • Board of Regents approves

11
Tenure requirements (its about the money)
  • Tougher than just promotion
  • Long-term money commitment
  • May need grant history
  • More than industry or state or EMF
  • Federal grants NIH RO-1, AHRQ, RWJF

12
Pick a mentor
  • Do this anyways
  • Inside department
  • Outside department
  • Someone successful you want to be
  • Knows what it takes to be promoted
  • Can be more than one

13
Talk to successful peers
  • Find peers doing the same thing as you
  • Peers in your department
  • Other program directors
  • Find out what they did

14
Get Famous (new)
  • List six names
  • Associate Professor or Professor

15
Get Famous
  • Need letters
  • Join Committees, Editorial Boards
  • Write chapters
  • Become an expert
  • Develop a national peer network
  • Lecture out of town
  • Lecture for ACEP, AAEM, SAEM, CORD, etc

16
Focus, Focus, Focus
  • Develop and demonstrate expertise
  • Pick an area
  • Write chapters on one or two topics
  • Limit outside distractions and maintenance
  • Stay away from admissions, P and T,
  • And other time sucking commitments
  • Volunteer for innovative institution projects and
    publish the results

17
Focus scholarly work
  • Measure everything you do
  • Resident satisfaction, quality, duty hours
  • Outcomes project
  • Residents as guinea pigs
  • Present at SAEM, AAMC, RIME, GRA, GEA
  • Submit to Academic Medicine, AEM, Medical
    Education

18
Keep everything
  • Education Portfolio or file folder
  • Evaluations from everyone
  • Annual review from chair
  • Reprints of articles
  • Education products, CDs, screen shots
  • Keep CV up to date

19
The Final Push
  • Application Timeline
  • Dossier
  • Letters
  • Lots of copies
  • How many up this year?
  • Start now

20
Timeline
  • Final Submission date backwards
  • Who does what
  • Individual dossier, names, reprints
  • Department votes, chairs letter
  • Find a support person to help
  • Chair can assign someone
  • Not your residency coordinator
  • Ten Copies, collate and staple

21
Reverse Timeline
  • November 1 submit to Dean
  • September 1 submit letter names
  • August 1 submit to department
  • July 1 start your dossier
  • June 2 start to collect your stuff
  • June 1 annual review with chair

22
Dossiers/Portfolio
  • More than just a CV
  • Specific format for dossier
  • Has to tell your story well
  • Specific CV format
  • Keep it up to date
  • Look at someones (successful peer) example

23
Dossiers
  • Summaries of research, teaching, service
  • Proofread the grammar
  • Be specific and give concrete examples
  • Give time percentage or hours per week

24
Dossiers
  • Three reprints
  • recent, since your last promotion
  • first or second author
  • important
  • not case reports or observations

25
Outside Letters
  • Find out how many
  • Ask peers
  • Suggest unknown letter writers
  • Higher rank than you
  • Well-respected institutions
  • Harvard, Stanford, UC, etc
  • Wide geographic area
  • They dont know famous EPs, they do know famous
    places, titles and rank

26
Potential Letter Writers
  • Editors you have written for
  • Prominent researchers in your field
  • Committee chairs
  • Department chairs
  • Full professors
  • Do not pick Assistant Professors, Instructors,
    former residents

27
Inside institution letters
  • Chair letter is automatic
  • Offer to ghost write
  • Some from within your department
  • Some from outside your department
  • Use your mentor
  • Do not piss everyone off
  • Committee work pay off

28
Promotion
  • Dont be an Assistant Professor for life
  • Decide if you want to do this
  • Plan for it
  • Count on it
  • Slow and steady
  • Dont wait until the end to do it

29
Break into Small Groups
  • What 2 things you are going to do?
  • What 2 things are you going to drop?
  • What 2 scholarly papers can you ?
  • Who can you work with on your project?
  • Who do you want to get to know?
  • What 2 things are you going to do to network at
    this meeting?
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