Recipe for a Career in Academia: Make Soup Not Cake

Seena Haines, PharmD, BC-ADM, CDEInterim Assistant Dean for Academics, Associate Professor

Residency Program Director (PGY-1)Co-Director Diabetes Education and Research Center (DERC)

Objectives

Discuss the key ingredients for a successful career in academia.

Explain the differences in the promotion process between the tenure and non-tenure track

Discover one’s personal and professional purpose in academia.

Share strategies to enhance one’s professional career in an academic setting.

Upon conclusion of this symposium, the attendee should be able to:

Soup Vs. Cake

SOUP

Key ingredients

Taste improves with time

Variety

Spices add the flavor

Nutritious meal

CAKE

Precision and measurement

Sequential and prescribed

Little flexibility in time and temperature

Can be fickle

Empty calories

Key Ingredients #1 and #2The Stock Is Your Terminal Degree and Postgraduate Training

PharmD Degree

Residency

Fellowship

Establishing yourself as a clinical educator

Developing or joining an established practice site

Specializing in an area of practice which can enhance scholarly/research opportunities

The Spices Are You‘re Niche

★ Primary Appointment & Salary

Those who love to practice and mentor should ask to what extent are you committed to teaching in the classroom

Academic Life

Scholarship

Practice

Teaching

Service

Scholarship of Teaching

Scholarship of Engagement

Service Learning

Professional Practice

Institution

Learners

Community

Organizations

Scholarship of

Application

Experiential Learning

(IPPEs/APPEs)

APPE = Advanced Pharmacy Practice Experience (Program); IPPE = Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience (Program).

Haines SL, Haines ST. ACCP Clinical Faculty Survival Guide. Service: Institution, Community, and Profession.

Balancing Responsibilities

Responsibilities

Teaching

Practice

Research Service

Family

Development

Clinical Practice Faculty

TeachingService

Research/Scholarship

Key Question: What is YOUR University’s Expectations

Typical Time Spent on Lecture (1st year) Development is ~4-

8hr for every lecture hr

Typical Time Spent on Lecture (1st year) Development is ~4-

8hr for every lecture hr

Performance Ability, Motivation, OpportunityPerformance Ability, Motivation, Opportunity

Time Spent (%) in These Categories Changes

Over Time

Time Spent (%) in These Categories Changes

Over Time

Scholarship of Teaching

Didactic

Experiential

Healthcare professional in-service

Continuing education

Advising

Residency/Fellow instruction

Teaching Environments Self-Assessment

Student Evaluations

MethodsTo

Evaluate

Peer Review

Additonal Scholarly Contributions

Presentations (local, state, national, international)

Publications (reviews, chapters, original research)

Instructional Innovations

Practice Models

Journal Referee

Editorial Advisory Board

A Creativity Contract And Goal SettingPortofolio: Document, Document, Document

Organizational value system

Have an agreed upon goals and objectives (short and long-term).

Written proposal/description of specific practice activities (especially when seeking resources).

Used in the annual evaluation process (FAPR example).

Modify your focus at different stages.

May consider nontenure to tenure track appointment.

Promotion and Tenure⌘

Cake: Tenure Fixed timeframe (~6-7 yrs) Refereed work (qualitative) Often scholarship of

discovery, integration & teaching ✜

Professional service, collegiate service, practice service

Soup: Non-Tenure Timeframe is variable Refereed work (qualitative) Often scholarship of

integration, application or teaching

Professional service, collegiate service, practice service

✜Institutional focus- Research or Teaching

Integration of Primary Academic Roles (Key Ingredients): Teaching, Service, Scholarship

⌘ Yearly or multi-year contracts vary at each institution

Review the Promotion

and Tenure Guidelines

ASAP

Review the Promotion

and Tenure Guidelines

ASAP

Key Ingredient #3Vertical and Lateral Mentors

Identify successful individuals at your institution and beyond.

Indentify individuals with similar areas of interests (teaching, practice, research).

Formal mentoring programs.

Seek multiple mentors for various needs.

“Knock, knock”…” “whose there?”….“Knock, knock”…” “whose there?”….

My Academic Journey

Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3Specialty Residency Assistant Professor/ Administration Associate Professor

Phase 1 – Specialty Residency

Instructor Appt

Instructor Appt

First Practice Faculty

First Practice Faculty

Joined PBA post residency

Joined PBA post residency

Applied for PromotionApplied for Promotion

Earned Early

Promotion

Earned Early

Promotion

Interim Dean

Interim Dean

Phase 3 – Administration

Phase 2 – Assistant Professor/Associate Professor

My Scholarship Areas:IntegrationApplicationTeaching

My Scholarship Areas:IntegrationApplicationTeaching

Clinical PracticeDirector

Clinical PracticeDirector

Residency Director

Residency Director

Focus Modified: Teaching vs. ResearchFocus Modified: Teaching vs. Research

Taste Improves with Time

Taste Improves with Time

VarietyVarietySpices add the Flavor

Spices add the Flavor

Nutritious MealNutritious Meal

My Personal Mission Statement and Career Goals

My Personal Mission Statement and Career Goals

Coordinator FlareCoordinator FlareMy 5-year nontenure

plan took 5 yearsMy 5-year nontenure

plan took 5 years

Job Satisfaction: The Spice of Academic Life

Professional Life-long learning Every mistake is a future success Think “TSS” banana split Collegial relations Think outside your institution and

profession Work triangulation (ADDIE) Teaching philosophy Resource awareness Become a “local” expert Research/scholarship agenda

Personal Feed your spirit Strive for balance in life Personal mission statement Job satisfaction/enrichment Being adaptable Reflection Learn to say “No” Technology investments Enjoy the flexibility

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Growth, Advancement, Responsibilities, Recognition, and Achievements

Sharing Recipes With My Fellow FoodieLateral Mentoring

We have collaborated in all areas of academic life.

Written several peer reviewed publications.

Serve as Co-editors for a national organization.

Earned an AACP Innovation in Teaching Award.

National Service in other professional organizations.

Podium presentations.

Residency development.

A kindred spirit.

Recipe RolodexLead From Your Strengths

Strengthfinders©, DiSC© inventories

Credentialing (CPD)

Teaching Certifications and Research Institutes (AACP and ACCP)

Fellowships (AACP)

Survival Guides/ Clinical Faculty Survival Guide (ACCP)

Facilitated Workshops

Closing Thoughts

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Booker T Washington

The road to success is always under construction

Arnold Palmer