Career Management Resources
Taking Root in a Forest Clearing: A Resource Guide for Medical Faculty
Funded by the Kellogg Foundation, this brief monograph addresses several key topics for young (and not-so-young) faculty: mentoring, negotiation skills, gender, and minority faculty.
Faculty Vitae
Faculty Vitae is a Web-based publication of the Association of American Medical College’s Organizational Leadership Development section offering professional development resources for faculty in medical schools and teaching hospitals.
Browse the "Faculty Vitae" archives for articles on topics such as leadership and negotiation skills.
Academic Physician and Scientist offers career development information for faculty at all career stages. Several recent articles are featured by the Association of American Medical College's Group on Faculty Affairs.
AAMC's Group on Women in Medicine and Science offers a rich array of faculty development resources oriented especially to women in academic medicine and sciences. In many cases, these are applicable to men, as well.
Guides to national professional development opportunities provided through the Association of American Medical Colleges include:
- Society Based Faculty Development Programs
- Women in Medicine and Science Professional Development Programs
- Medical School Based Career and Leadership Development Programs
- National Leadership Development Programs
Making the Right Moves: A Practical Guide to Scientific Management for Postdocs and New Faculty is a 248-page guide is a PDF document that may be downloaded for free in its entirety or, more manageably, by chapter. Making the Right Moves provides practical advice from experienced bio-medical investigators and other professionals. Topics cover the gamut of academic skills for faculty and fellows, from negotiating a faculty position and staffing a laboratory, to project management, understanding technology transfer, setting up collaborations, and getting funded.
* Contact our office for your personal hard copy of this publication: FAemail@med.wayne.edu.
How-To Guides from the journal, Science
In these collections, writers and editorial and business staff from the journal Science offer practical advice on a variety of topics related to finding a job and building a career in the sciences.
Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Scholarship Toolkit
While this site is oriented toward community-engaged scholarship, all faculty can benefit from exercises in the toolkit related to creating and sustaining a career vision, working with mentors, writing a career statement, and creating a portfolio.