WIMS Career Development & Mentoring

 

WIMS Mentoring Program

The aim of the WIMS Mentoring Program is to enhance and support, not replace or duplicate, the School of Medicine's department based faculty mentoring programs, as well as mentoring services offered within the School of Nursing or School of Health Professions. Under the leadership of Susan K. Pingleton, MD, FACP, Master Fellow, ACCP, the Joy McCann Professor of WIMS, this program is currently under development by the WIMS Mentoring Committee to help our female faculty members achieve academic career success and satisfaction.

The Program Mission is to promote professional and personal development of women faculty members, offering mentoring services to all faculty, male or female, which will enrich, enhance and expand the department based programs with alternative support for various projects, topics, or issues related to women faculty.

Mentoring Resources

• TOP 10 Things I Learned at the December 2010 AAMC Mid-Career Women's Professional Development Leadership Seminar by Brenda Rongish, PhD
• Perspective: Top 10 Tips for Mentors by Phillip S. Clifford and Joan M. Lakoski, 2010
• Taking Root in a Forest Clearing: A Resource Guide for Medical Faculty (pdf) This booklet on mentoring has excellent sections on negotiation and mentoring gender and minority topics.
• Need a Mentor?
  • Contact Dr. Susan Pingleton, Chair of the WIMS Mentoring Committee
  • Current Women’s Health Research Mentors [Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH) K12 Program]

WIMS Career Development Advice

Visit the WIMS Virtual Mentor, our web-based user-friendly service developed to help young faculty maneuver the Promotion and Tenure (P&T) process along with providing and easy means for all faculty members keep current with P&T information with the least amount of hassle through any promotion, on any track and from any rank.

It is our goal to provide a full list of WIMS delegates or WIMS-GALS from each department in the School of Medicine, as well as from the School of Nursing and School of Allied Health, who will serve as contact to assist with finding mentors, welcoming new woman to the faculty and providing a WIMS Welcome Packet upon their arrival. Educational presentations related to mentoring and issues which are commonly faced by mentors and mentees will be offered on a quarterly basis and open for all faculty members, regardless of gender, to attend. These presentations will be posted on the PDFA Training website where all faculty topics are listed.

Please feel free to contact any member of the Committee with your ideas, suggestions for programs, guest speakers or your desire to become involved.

 

Career Advancement "Tips"  Source: Brown Albert Medical School - Office of Women in Medicine Anything worth doing is worth publishing If you go to a meeting – make yourself known Write for 30 minutes a day Self confidence to say “NO” but not too much Set aside time and reserve energy for outside activities Arrange regular meetings with mentors Discuss specific goals with your mentor -What do you want to accomplish this year? Market yourself and find someone to mentor you for promotion Review your calendar periodically – does it reflect your priorities? It is important to "take up space" Appreciate the positive

11.11.2010