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What Are the Ingredients of a
Successful Career?
Benjamin Littenberg, MD
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The Problem
Many young faculty join academic units to
develop careers in investigation along with
patient care and teaching.
However, despite best intentions, few
become independent investigators.
Leadership view vs. faculty view
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The Analysis
Informal conversations with many
experienced academics and young
investigators have identified five factorsessential for success as an investigative
academic physician.
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The Big Five
Personal Characteristics
Protected Time
Skills
Mentoring
Supportive Environment
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Advice to Leadership
If investigators dont have all 5 ingredients,
they will not flourish.
Your job as a research unit leader (Director,
Chair, Dean, etc.) is to make sure that all 5
are in place in your unit.
Exactly how do I do that?
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Personal Characteristics
Faculty must have:
Intelligence
Energy
Perseverance
Creativity
Organization
Recruit carefully!
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Protected time to study and work
Protected from Clinical, Educational, and
Administrative tasks
Devoted to research Optimal: 80% for three years
Some can succeed with as little as 50% protected
time, but this is unusual.
Failure to protect young faculty is the leading
cause of failed research programs.
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Specific Skills
The mechanisms, knowledge, techniques,tools and lore of a specific field
Gene sequencingSecondary data manipulation
Decision Analysis
Meta-analysis
Qualitative research
Cell culture
.the list goes on
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General skills:
The 3 Rs of Research Design, analysis, and communication
reading (critical review of the literature)
riting (presentation of proposals and results)
rithmetic (statistics, epidemiology, and study design)
Fellowship level training
Many post-fellowship faculty do not have a
structured approach to acquiring and updatingresearch skills.
Leadership must model life-long learning.
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Mentoring
Virtually all successful faculty have high qualitymentors who provide:
unvarnished constructive criticism
introductions to interesting people and opportunities
exposure to useful literatures and worthy topics
encouragement balanced with rigor.
Not a natural skill: Many mentors are ineffective
Leadership must train and develop mentors aswell as protgs.
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A supportive environment of
inquiry Investigators rarely flourish in isolation.
An environment of collaboration and collegialityhas frequent formal and informal opportunities to communicate with others in their field
safely present their ideas
receive feedback
develop collaborative relationships.
Many academic units have no structuredenvironmental supports to foster young
investigator development.
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Advice to Investigators
Consider your own characteristics
Get protected time
Build your skills systematically
Cultivate mentors
Seek out a supportive environment
Exactly how do I do that?
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Consider your own characteristics
Do you have the intelligence and creativity?
Probably yes
Do you have the energy? Competing factors: Doctoring, teaching, relationships,
family, exercise, hobbies , sleep
Do you have the perseverance?
Gratifications are very delayed in academics
Are you well organized?
Be very, very critical!
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Protected Time
Negotiate, wheedle, beg, borrow, steal
Institutional training grants (K12,etc.)
Fellowships (ACP, ACS, AHA, etc.)
Career development awards (K23, etc.)
Self-fund by working part-time
Time = Money
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Assess Your Skills
Figure out what you need to know
Figure out how you like to learn
Be resourceful: Degree programs
Classes
Readings
Tutorials Web-based learning
Meetings
This never stops!
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Get Mentored
Approach a potential mentor:
Willing and able to give you time and attention and
honest feedback Not necessarily in your department or field
Not necessarily likable
Negotiate the terms of engagement
Nothing is free
Maintain multiple mentors over time and space.
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Environment: Buy or Build?
Know what you want: peers and collaborators
Move to the right place
Create it locally Local interest group
Coffee klatsch
Book club
Call up strangers Advertise: E-mail lists, newsletters
Take responsibility for your community.
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The Big Five
Personal Characteristics
Protected Time
Skills Mentoring
Supportive Environment
Dont be fooled: without all 5, you will notbecome an independent investigator.
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Thank you!
Benjamin Littenberg, MD
University of Vermont
802-847-8268
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Belief
In order for you to achieve anything in your
career, in fact your life - you have to first
believe. You need to believe in yourself that you can
achieve it.
You need to have faith in your goals andyour path to that Success.
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Belief
Once your mind is convinced that you can
do it, nothing is impossible.
Belief is the mind and heart part of your 3critical success factors.
It is the think and feel part of it.
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Action
Nothing moves until you do something.
Believing alone is not going to achieve
anything for you.
It must be followed up with concrete action.
Your plan for Career successis nothing
unless you act upon it whole-heartedly.
When you act upon what you believe, there
is focus.22
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Action
And there is energy.
That energy propels you to greater heights.
Action is the hands and legs part of your
3 critical success factors.
It is the do part of it.
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Discipline
Action in itself is not enough to increase the
chances of success.
But disciplined action would do that.
One of the main reasons why people fail is
that there is no discipline in their action.
They give themselves excuses why they
cannot consistently follow up on their plans.
There is no self-control to their action.24
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Discipline
You would need some form of sacrifice if
you were to achieve a certain degree of
success in your career. For example, sacrificing some personal time
to do initiatives.
That sacrifice takes discipline.
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Discipline
Discipline also ensures that you can be
persistent.
Especially when faced with challenges afterchallenges in their journey to success.
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women inEngineering Presentation May 3,
8 Rules forCareer Success
Dianne P. OLearyUniversity of Maryland
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women inEngineering Presentation May 3,
These slides are from a 15 minute presentation at a workshop sponsored byWomen in Engineering (WIE).
I was asked to speak about my work and how I balance career and personal life.The slides are incomplete, since much of what I said is not contained here.
Given here are my personal rules for career success. I was asked to post them
because others found them helpful, but one size doesnt fit all. Writing theserules was an interesting exercise in assessing what is important to me and howwell my actions fit my principles.
Perhaps others will find a similar exercise helpful.
Dianne [email protected]
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women inEngineering Presentation May 3,
Rule 1:
Be passionateabout what you do.
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women inEngineering Presentation May 3,
Passion is
a luxury,
but essential to high success.
If you cant be with the one youlove, .
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women inEngineering Presentation May 3,
Rule 2:
Establish goals.
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women inEngineering Presentation May 3,
Goals: things that you plan to do.
Short term: finish project, organizea meeting, teach child to swim, take
a course, plant a garden,
Long term: find better job, pay off
mortgage, write a book,
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women inEngineering Presentation May 3,
These are not goals:
I want to be a grandmother.
I want to be promoted.
I want to win the Nobel Prize.
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These are wishes:
I want to be a grandmother.
I want to be promoted.
I want to win the Nobel Prize.
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women inEngineering Presentation May 3,
NotI want to be a grandmother,
butI want to be more involved
with children.
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women inEngineering Presentation May 3,
NotI want to be promoted.
butI want my record to merit promotion.
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women inEngineering Presentation May 3,
NotI want to win the Nobel Prize,
butI want my work to be good enough
to merit an award.
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women inEngineering Presentation May 3,
Rule 3:
Demand reasons.
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women inEngineering Presentation May 3,
Reasons:
Know why your supervisor
wants a task done.
More importantly, know why
you are doing the task!
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women inEngineering Presentation May 3,
Your reason should be drawn
from a short list:
I want to.
It is a step toward my goals.
It gives back to the community.
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women inEngineering Presentation May 3,
Rule 4:
Set priorities.
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women inEngineering Presentation May 3,
Setting priorities
(a.k.a., time management)
Pay yourself first.
Take yourtime off the top, notfrom the leftovers.
Put the big rocks in first Steven Covey
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women inEngineering Presentation May 3,
Put the big rocks in first. Steven Covey
If you care about your research,schedule it for a substantial block of
your most productive time.
If you care about your family, save
some energy for them!
If anything is important to you,
schedule time for yourself.
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women in
Engineering Presentation May 3,
Rule 5:
Networkup and down.
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women in
Engineering Presentation May 3,
Networking:
Get to know the senior people.Right now, you need to be known
by them.
Get to know the junior people.
Right now, they need you.
Later, you will need them!
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women in
Engineering Presentation May 3,
Rule 6:
Communicatewell and often.
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women in
Engineering Presentation May 3,
Communicate well and often.
Make sure that your supervisor
and your colleagues know what
you do.
Have an elevator speech.
Keep your resume updated.
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women in
Engineering Presentation May 3,
Rule 7:
Hone your skills.
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women in
Engineering Presentation May 3,
Hone your skills.
Never stop learning.
Be appropriately confident of yourabilities.
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women in
Engineering Presentation May 3,
Rule 8:
Get a life.
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women in
Engineering Presentation May 3,
Get a life.
Keep a balance in your life.
Make sure all of you self-esteemeggs are not in one basket.
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Dianne P. O'Leary Women in
Engineering Presentation May 3,
Support system:
faith
family
friends
fitness
fun
Skills
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Dianne P O'Leary Women in
Skills
Life
Communication
Networ
k
ReasonsPriorities
Goals
Passion