Personal Development: Career

Informational

• Helpful materials from Dr Sandra Burge's summer reprise on what to put in your eCV and where to put it are available here, and recorded sessions are online in the links that follow. Sandra Burge on eCV:
  • INTRO + TEACHING http://familymed.uthscsa.edu/facultydevelopment/elearning/eCV1.asp
  • RESEARCH http://familymed.uthscsa.edu/facultydevelopment/elearning/eCV2.asp
  • SERVICE http://familymed.uthscsa.edu/facultydevelopment/elearning/eCV3.asp
• Senior women faculty (associate or full professors) may be nominated by the Dean for the ELAM (Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine) fellowship program. The ELAM fellowship develops leadership skills to expand the "national pool of qualified women candidates for leadership in academic medicine, dentistry, and public health." ELAM may be in your future; prepare for candidacy now. When you are ready, present your qualifications by January 1; applications are due February 1 each year. UTHSCSA can nominate 2 candidates annually.
• Merry Lindsey's presentation on Knowing What You Want (WFA Oct 2007), or how to develop an agenda for career success.
• Reprints:
  • Advice for Women Scientists [New!]
  • Gender Equity
• Career/Life Aid:
  • Child care options

Mentoring!

• See materials from WFA program of Dec. 8, 2006
• Lee_Nature_2007v14p791_Guide for mentors.pdf
• On Being a Mentor to Students in Science and Engineering http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/mentor/#contents
• 2006 Mentoring Symposium on “Mastering the Juggling Act:  Laboratory, Life, and Leadership Roles”, sponsored by APS/ASPET
• American Physiological Society Career Mentoring Website http://www.the-aps.org/careers/careers1/mentor/index.htm
• Association for Women in Science mentoring website http://www.awis.org/careers/mentoring.html
• Mentoring:  A role to facilitate academic change (article in The Internet Journal of Allied Health Sciences and Practice): http://www.nova.edu/cwis/centers/hpd/allied-health/journal/articles/vol3num2/Provident%20-%20Print%20Version.pdf
• Mentorship:  A Critical Component for Professional Growth and Academic Success (article in the Journal of Dental Education): http://www.jdentaled.org/cgi/reprint/68/3/324.pdf
• UMDNJ Office of Faculty Development faculty mentoring recommendations http://rwjms.umdnj.edu/faculty/faculy_development/mentoring.htm
• Virginia Commonwealth University Medical School faculty mentoring guide http://www.medschool.vcu.edu/ofid/facdev/facultymentoringguide
• SUNY Faculty Development Mentoring Guide http://www.upstate.edu/facultydev/mentor.php

Related Links

• http://www.the-scientist.com/2008/9/1/45/1/ - The Scientist 2008 Life Science Salary Survey
• http://womeninscience.nih.gov/
• http://ori.dhhs.gov/education/products/
• Women in Cell Biology http://www.ascb.org/index.cfm?navid=89
• Women in Physiology/Pharmacology Committees http://www.the-aps.org/careers/careers1/mentor/workshop/06wrkshp.htm
• U Penn Career Development website http://somapps.med.upenn.edu/fapd/fapdweb.php?alias=fpdcareer&
• American Association of Medical Colleges Faculty Vitae http://www.aamc.org/members/facultydev/facultyvitae/fall06/start.htm
• Leader Values http://www.leader-values.com/
• University of Buffalo School of Nursing Career Services Center http://nursing.buffalo.edu/career/career_links.asp