Professional and leadership development
I have a monthly meeting with former interim chair Trish Kritek about residual Department of Medicine (DOM) issues and in her new role as Executive Vice Dean for Medical Education and Faculty Affairs (congrats Trish!!). This week we talked about some School of Medicine (SOM) opportunities for sponsorship of leadership development for our faculty.
The first deadline is for the AAMC Mid-Career Faculty Leadership Development Seminar (December 8-10, Westminster, CO). The school will sponsor up to two faculty (minimum two years experience as associate professor), covering travel and registration costs up to $3,750. To apply, submit a CV and a 1-2 page statement describing your leadership goals and how you will bring these skills back to the SOM in a single PDF to Kat McGhee Drummond by August 5.
The second program is the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM)/Executive Leadership in Healthcare (ELH), a year-long, part-time fellowship in executive leadership. The school will provide 50% funding for two participants, and the department will cover the remaining 50% for any selected DOM faculty. Applications open soon, with the formal process beginning September 1. Interested faculty will need to submit a CV and a 1-2 page statement describing their chosen track, leadership goals, and plan to bring these skills back to UW Medicine.
I've already written some about my wonderful ELAM experience, but I also participated in the AAMC Early-Career Leadership Program as a junior faculty member. Even though it was long ago, that was where I first participated in the PACE Palette exercise looking at work personalities, and I've spent years doing workshops at UCLA and national conferences for a variety of faculty and trainees in a talk entitled "The Power of Persuasive Communication - Finding Your Color and Superpower."
For those of you familiar with the PACE Palette color scheme, I am BLUE/YELLOW with some GREEN and absolutely no RED. By the way I usually make people figure this out themselves, but I guess I'm just being super open in this new role. 🙂
This means I’m harmonious and all about the team and personal relationships (why ICU is such a good field for me) while also being organized, responsible, and task-oriented. It also means I’m not naturally adventurous. I’ve spent years building teams with diverse work styles because the combination of different perspectives is what turns bold, data-driven ideas into results, especially when the team enjoys working together! These principles have also come in handy in my personal life and helped my GREEN aerospace engineer data-driven husband and me to buy property (as recently as 3 months ago) with lots of harmony!
While I’m excited for DOM faculty to participate in these opportunities, I recognize that in a faculty of our size only a small fraction can take part in national leadership programs. With that in mind, I’ve been talking to Cynthia Ko, our extremely thoughtful and dedicated Associate Chair for Faculty Affairs, and she is eager to continue building out some professional development opportunities here so that more of our DOM faculty can participate locally.
More to come on that - in the meantime, if you want to find out what color you are on the PACE palette, I have materials left from the last workshop I did and happy to share!
P.S. I went back to LA for the first time this weekend since moving here and got some good korean BBQ and some good friend time. I miss LA a lot less than I expected and I have all of you (and my Seattle family) to thank for that!
