This course provides information on onboarding, faculty career stages, retirement planning, time management, mentorship skills, career and scholarship planning, turning clinical, administrative, and educational work into scholarship, and preparing CV, resume and personal statement. Upon completion of this course, you will be equipped with effective knowledge and skills on how to succeed and advance as a faculty. 

The course is organized into five earning modules: Faculty Career Stages, Time Management, Art of Mentoring, Turning Clinical Work and Education into Scholarship, and Guides to Writing a CV, Resume and Personal Statement.  Each module consists of multiple topics:

• Faculty Career Stages (3.0 CME/CNE credits)
  • Onboarding and Negotiating
  • Faculty Career Stages
  • Retirement Planning
• Time Management (2.0 CME/CNE credits)
  • Time Management Self-Assessment
  • Time Management Strategies
  • Are You on Track?
  • Working from Home
• Art of Mentoring (2.0 CME/CNE credits)
  • Mentoring Relationships: Do We Really Need Them?
  • Models and Types of Mentoring
  • Mentoring up
  • TTUHSC El Paso Mentoring Programs
• Turning Clinical Work and Education into Scholarship (1.5 CME/CNE credits)
  • Career and Scholarship Planning
  • About Scholarship
  • Examples for Turning your Clinical and Administrative Work and Education into Scholarship
• Guides to Writing a CV, Resume and Personal Statement (1.5 CME/CNE credits)
  • Preparing Your CV and Networking
  • Preparing Your NIH Biosketch
  • Preparing Your Personal Statement

It is estimated that the entire course, with the assessment portion will take you approximately ten (10) hours to complete, but you can take only one or two modules, and get the respective number of program credits, CME or CNE credit hours. 

Following the learning modules, you will see a section with course resources ("Suggested Reading" section) that you may find helpful. 

For each module (M), you will complete a Self-Check Quiz. You must score 80% on each quiz to successfully complete a module. You will have three attempts for each quiz. Upon completion of the quizzes, you will receive a respective number of IFDP course credits and/or CME/CNE credit hours. To maximize your experience, we encourage you to engage in the synchronous teleconference session.

Thank you for joining our Succeeding and Advancing as Faculty Online Course. We are looking forward to our continued collaboration!

Weekly Synchronous Sessions

• LDA II and IFDP XX area directors chose the most relevant topics, speakers, and panelists for the synchronous sessions.
• Speakers, moderators, and panelists will discuss a step-by-step process, tips, case studies, and links to the institutional resources and policies that explain how our organization can effectively share its own best teaching, leadership, scholarship, and research practices internally.
• LDA II – Teleconferences, panel discussions, and workshops will occur every Wednesday or Friday, from noon to 1:00 pm (38 synchronous sessions; 38 CME/CNE credits). (From August 2021 To March 2022)
• IFDP XX – Teleconferences, panel discussions, and workshops will occur every Tuesday, from noon to 1:00 pm (27 synchronous sessions; 27 CME/CNE credits).  (From October 2021 To May 2022)