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Effective Leadership for Faculty Productivity and Career Success
  • IAMSE Webcast Audio Seminar
  • Patricia S. O’Sullivan
  • patricia.osullivan@ucsf.edu
  • March 27th, 2007


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Haiku
  • Not
  • a dragonfly;
  • remove its wings ~ pepper tree.


  • But
  • a pepper tree;
  • add wings to it ~ dragonfly



  • The world depends on which way this unfolds.
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What I hope you leave with
  • Leaders can
    • Create an environment encouraging educational scholarship
    • Encourage productivity in multiple roles
    • Create opportunities for our faculty
    • Guide our faculty to develop strategic plans


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Creating a Community of Educators
  • UCSF Story
  • Kotter Eight Leadership Steps
  • Academy of Medical Educators
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Kotter Leadership Steps
  • Create a sense of urgency
  • Create a guiding coalition
  • Develop a vision and strategy
  • Communicate the vision for change
  • Empower broad based action
  • Generate short term wins
  • Consolidate gains and produce more change
  • Anchor new approaches in the institution


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How do educators add value to an institution?
  • Teacher
  • Curriculum developer
  • Implementer of assessments
  • Advisor/mentor
  • Administrator


  • http://www.aamc.org/members/facultydev/facultyvitae/spring06/spotlight.htm
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How can I show productivity for academic advancement?
  • Describe type and frequency of activities
  • Provide evidence of quality
  • Engage in the academic community
    • Do roles in a scholarly way
    • Undertake educational scholarship

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How do I create opportunities for my faculty
  • Assume that faculty are internally motivated
  • Find administrative opportunities
  • Find time for research
  • Help identify a network
  • Help find a mentor
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What do leaders in medical schools do well?
  • Strong culture toward productivity
  • Exposure to strong role models
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What do leaders need to work on?
  • Attend to person-environment interactions
  • Address dual careers
  • Make sure that they have research training
  • Set up for early successes
  • Advocate collaborating
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Additional suggestions
  • Multiple role planning
  • Provide bridges to resources for personal services
  • Communicate to reinforce self-efficacy
  • Demonstrate effective team building skills
  • Address anxiety about career
  • Award accomplishments and provide recognitions




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Self-directed Learning Plans
  • Long and short-term goals
  • Establish objectives and benchmarks
  • Identify reasonable activities to achieve objectives with a timeframe that is conducive to multiple roles and responsibilities.
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4Ts
  • Theme
  • Team
  • Tasks
  • Target
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Themes come from finding a good problem
  • Can be found in what you do everyday
  • From the literature that relates to what you do everyday
  • What is being funded
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Formulate a Research Team
  • Consider educators, health service researchers, colleagues from other departments with similar interests
  • Include a learner
  • Identify a team leader
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How to keep the team working
  • Regular meetings
  • Minutes
  • Simple workplan
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Tasks
  • Develop a list of what needs to be done to achieve the goal set in the theme
  • Attach timeline and responsibilities
  • Make sure to check the literature
  • Make sure methods are sound for whatever project you are reporting
  • Write abstracts
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Targets
  • Present ideas locally
    • Committees
    • Weekly scholarship conference
    • Local Education Day
  • Regional/National meetings
    • Have abstracts critiqued


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Targets (continued)
  • Manuscripts
    • Outline
    • Co-write
    • Follow author notes
    • Send to a review panel
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Targets (continued)
  • Products
    • Peer review outlets
    • MedEdPortal (www.aamc.org/mededportal)
    • HEAL                        (www.healcentral.org)


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4T worksheet
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How have leaders done?
  • Glassick
    • Clear goals
    • Adequate preparation
    • Appropriate methods
    • Significant results
    • Effective presentation
    • Reflective critique


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What else can I do to help my faculty be productive?
  • Opportunities outside of own institution
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Have I helped my faculty be productive?
  • Create new opportunities
    • For critique
    • For resources
  • Link people
  • Develop strategic plans
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"Thank you very much for..."


  • Thank you very much for your attention
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References
  • Bland, CJ et al. Leadership behaviors for successful university-community collaborations to change curricula. Acad Med. 1999;74:1227-1237.
  • Bland CJ et al. Curricular change in medical schools: How to succeed. Acad Med 2000;75:575-594.
  • Bland CJ et al A theoretical, practical, predictive model of faculty and department research productivity. Acad Med 2005;80:225-237.


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References (Continued)
  • Bakken LL, Byars-Winston A, Wang M. Viewing clinical research career development through the lens of social cognitive career theory. Adv. Hlth Sci Ed 2006;11:91-110.
  • Boyer EL. Scholarship reconsidered: priorities of the professoriate. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.
  • Fincher RM et al.  Scholarship in teaching: an imperative for the 21st century. Acad Med. 2000;75:887-894.
  • Glassick CE, Huber MT, Maeroff GI. Scholarship assessed: Evaluation of the professoriate. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1997.


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References (continued)
  • Irby DM et al. The academy movement: A structural approach to reinvigorate the educational mission. Acad Med 2004;79: 729-736.
  • Kotter JP. Leading Change. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1996.
  • Loeser H et al. Leadership lessons from curricular change at UCSF. Acad Med.