Career Development Subcommittee
Members
Aims
Young Investigator Training Workshops
Monthly Didactics
Small Group Instruction
Recruitment and Launching of Junior Faculty
Evaluatory Component
Pediatric Fellows Curriculum
Career Development Project
The Career Development Project includes three specific areas: 1) didactic courses in clinical research for trainees, junior faculty, and other interested research personnel. 2) mentoring program to facilitate and enhance the mentor-mentee relationship, identification of potential mentors, development of guidelines for mentoring in clinical research; and 3) small group forums for trainees, junior faculty to discuss progress in actual research projects.
- Christy Sandborg MD Professor and Chief, Pediatrics-Rheumatology
- Hayley Gans MD Assistant Professor, Pediatrics-Infectious Diseases
- Rebecka Peebles MD Instructor, Pediatrics-Adolescent Medicine
- Kari Nadeau MD Assistant Professor, Pediatrics-Allergy & Clinical Immunology
- Linda McLaughlin, Director, Pediatric Academic Affairs & Faculty Development
- Hannah Valantine MD Senior Associate Dean for Diversity and Leadership (SoM) and Professor of Medicine (CV Med)
- Mentorship to young investigators at Packard
- Instruction in clinical research design and implementation
- Direction to appropriate resources
- Guidance in career development
 Young Investigator Training Workshops: |
- Three tiers
- Monthly didactic practicum: "Clinical Research 101"
- Small group interactive instruction
- One on one mentoring/career guidance
- For young and new investigators in pediatric clinical research
- Postdoctoral fellows
- Junior faculty
- Mid-career faculty changing research direction
- PRACTICAL topics for research implementation and career development
- Examples: IRB workshop, Lane library tools/effective medical searching, NIH and other external funding opportunities, guide to promotion at Stanford, statistical resources, intra-institutional granting opportunities, negotiating clinical trials budgets, etc.
- Group of 2-3 mentors + 1 statistician per group
- Monthly meetings
- Separate groups for fellows and junior faculty
- 2-3 brief informal presentations monthly
- Focus: specific aspect of hypothesis development and research design
- Presentations as a springboard for discussions of more broadly applicable aspects of research
- Feedback from group on project - work in progress
- Initial mentor assigned in offer letter
- Relationship should serve as first step in networking and career/research guidance
- Opportunity to help mentee find project-specific mentor
- Help in initial project development
- Final mentor identified over time; will assist in further career development and research funding
| Recruitment and Launching of Junior Faculty: |
- Contact name for CHRP Career Development Program available to Division Chiefs
- Career development opportunities outlined to all new recruits on Instructor, Medical Center , and University Track Lines
- Division chiefs should decide other needs? within clinical lines
- Once new faculty identified to the Career Development Program, they will be encouraged to attend career development program
- Pre and post evaluations of junior faculty members and fellows
- Evaluations of all three tiers/mentors a regular intervals
- Solicit suggestions yearly to improve program
