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Career DevelopmentCareer DevelopmentRenee Navarro, Jeanette BrownRenee Navarro, Jeanette Brown

Deborah GradyDeborah Grady

Career Development AchievementsCareer Development Achievements

• Provide superb mentoring and Provide superb mentoring and career advicecareer advice

• Promote career advancementPromote career advancement• Improve diversityImprove diversity

Mentor Development ProgramMentor Development Program

• Training the next generation of mentors Training the next generation of mentors and building a community of excellenceand building a community of excellence– Mid-career and early senior facultyMid-career and early senior faculty

– 10 case-based seminars Jan to May10 case-based seminars Jan to May

– Toolbox of strategies and collective experienceToolbox of strategies and collective experience

– 2 publications, national leadership2 publications, national leadership

• 60 trained mentors now provide 60 trained mentors now provide expertise, advocacy and communityexpertise, advocacy and community

Junior Faculty Mentor ProgramJunior Faculty Mentor Program

• Aims to pair every junior faculty member Aims to pair every junior faculty member with at least one mentorwith at least one mentor

• Collaboration with UCSF Faculty Collaboration with UCSF Faculty Mentoring Program – Mitchell FeldmanMentoring Program – Mitchell Feldman– Each Department to have a Mentor Facilitator Each Department to have a Mentor Facilitator

charged with ensuring junior faculty mentorscharged with ensuring junior faculty mentors

– Aim to train all Facilitators in MDPAim to train all Facilitators in MDP

Mentoring: New ProgramsMentoring: New Programs

• Mentor consultation service - respond Mentor consultation service - respond to questions, discuss issuesto questions, discuss issues

• Mentor Profiles - find a mentor/menteeMentor Profiles - find a mentor/mentee

• Pre-MDP for K Scholars – start Pre-MDP for K Scholars – start mentoring as research mentormentoring as research mentor

• Electronic mentor evaluation (1/2012)Electronic mentor evaluation (1/2012)

Career AdvancementCareer Advancement

• Ensure that C+T researchers are Ensure that C+T researchers are appropriately recognized and rewardedappropriately recognized and rewarded– Academic Senate Annual Research Lecture – Academic Senate Annual Research Lecture –

clinical, translational and basic researchclinical, translational and basic research

– Train Department Chairs, Division Chiefs and Train Department Chairs, Division Chiefs and Promotions CommitteesPromotions Committees

– Ensure that promotion materials address Ensure that promotion materials address multidisciplinary, team-based researchmultidisciplinary, team-based research

• Support faculty who need time to focus on or Support faculty who need time to focus on or redirect research – flexible mini-sabbaticalsredirect research – flexible mini-sabbaticals

Improve DiversityImprove Diversity• RecruitmentRecruitment

– Foster best practices for searchesFoster best practices for searches

– Develop PuP and the URM Clerkship ProgramDevelop PuP and the URM Clerkship Program

– Sustain Traveling AmbassadorsSustain Traveling Ambassadors

– Develop Diversity Center of ExcellenceDevelop Diversity Center of Excellence

• RetentionRetention– Increase Minority SupplementsIncrease Minority Supplements

– Ensure exceptional mentoring and supportEnsure exceptional mentoring and support

– URM faculty pilot funding programURM faculty pilot funding program

– Fund leadership trainingFund leadership training