Career and Personal Development
Books and A/Vs for career and personal development:
This section focuses on the knowledge and capabilities needed for successfully
developing and managing one's career. These understandings and capabilities
vary depending on one's profession and the setting(s) in which one is working
(e.g., a research-oriented institution, a service or teaching-oriented institution).
A few resources for personal development are also included.
AAAS. Video Series on Research Integrity
- The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has
sponsored a series of five videos entitled "Integrity in Scientific
Research." The videos, accompanied by a discussion and resource guide,
portray unresolved situations in research settings designed to provoke discussion
among scientists, post-doctoral fellows, undergraduate and graduate students,
administrators, and technicians.
- Issues covered include such potential gray areas as the sharing of
research data, publication practices, and whistle blower rights and responsibilities.
The videos were produced by Amram Nowak Associates, Inc., in cooperation
with the Medical College of Georgia's Division of Health Communication.
- The video series is available for $79.95 ($63.96 for AAAS members),
and can be ordered from the AAAS by calling 202.326.6600.
Bickel, Janet. Building a Stronger Women's Program: Enhancing the Educational
and Professional Environment.2nd ed. Washington DC: Association of American
Medical Colleges, 1993.
- Topics in this practical handbook include addressing sexism in medicine,
working toward salary equity, parenting and flexibility issues, creating
professional development programs, women's health curricula, and making
use of available resources. The strategies and resources described can improve
the professional environment for both women and men.
Bogdewic, Steven. Advancement and promotion: Managing the individual
career. In McGaghie William C. & John J. Frey. Editors. Handbook for
the Academic Physician (pp. 22-36). New York: Springer Verlag, 1986.
- The author presents sample questions to ask oneself in considering
an academic career. He sketches an academic career development model and
challenges readers to assess the match between personal aspirations and
institutional expectations. Then he describes a prototypic personal development
contract and a performance appraisal cycle.
Bowman, Marjorie A.and Deborah I. Allen. Stress and Women Physicians.
2nd ed. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1990.
- This book describes women physicians but also directly and indirectly
deals with issues facing women physicians and provides suggestions for personal
and career development. Topics include women in medical school and academia,
speciality choices and productivity of women physicians, practice characteristics,
mental health status, women physicians' way of healing, stress, physician
marriages and dual career couples, childbearing and child-rearing, and stress
prevention and management. The authors, who are all women physicians, each
present brief comments about their own experiences.
Boyer, Ernest and colleagues. Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of
the Professorate. Princeton, NJ: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement
of Teaching, 1990.
- This piece has had an important impact on the conceptualization of
faculty roles and rewards in many programs in the U.S.. It has been helpful
in giving faculty a broader view of the nature of scholarship, including
the scholarship of teaching, discovery, application, and integration.
Dill, David. Professional settings for the academic physician. In McGaghie,
William C. and John J. Frey. Editors. Handbook for the Academic Physician
(pp. 3-10). New York: Springer Verlag, 1986.
- Dill warns that "doctors who may be outstanding clinicians in
private practice may be ineffective or unhappy in a medical school because
they lack the skills and values required." Topics include the physician's
tradition of autonomy, the complex roles played by academics, and the reward
system that is only loosely connected with assigned tasks.
Gerber, Lane A. Married to their Careers: Career and Family Dilemmas
in Doctors' Lives. new York: Tavistock Publication, 1983.
- Through interviews with the medical students, residents, physicians-educators,
and family members, the author explored how physicians attempt to combine
their careers and family life. In the book he attempts to describe the worlds
of work and home as the interviewees see them. The author's interest in
this topic grew out of his concern for the disproportionately high rates
of substance abuse, problem marriages, and suicide among physicians and
his own experiences as the son of a physician. Topics include role models,
specialness, work and time, caring, and medical marriages.
Hitchcock Maurice A, Carol J. Bland, Francine P. Hekelman, and Mark G.
Blumenthal. Professional networks: the influence of colleagues on the academic
success of faculty. Acad Med 1995;70(12):1108-16.
- Although this is a review of the literature, not a "how to"
article, readers can draw lessons from the findings regarding the kinds
of networking they need to do to advance their careers, particularly in
the research domain.
Professional academic skills domain. In Bland, Carol J., Constance C.
Schmitz, Frank T. Stritter, Rebecca C. Henry, and John J. Aluise. Successful
Faculty in Academic Medicine: Essential Skills and How to Acquire Them (pp.
201-237). New York: Springer Publication, 1990.
- The authors discuss the socialization process by which professionals
acquire the attitudes and social skills of their chosen occupation and learn
about the values and unwritten rules of their profession and the organization(s)
in which they work. They then present a curriculum for developing professional
academic skills. The emphasis is on career development in research-oriented
institutions.
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Schoenfeld, A, Clay & Robert Magnan. Mentor in a Manual: Climbing
the Academic Ladder to Tenure. 2nd Edition. Madison, WI: Magna Publications,
1994. 428 pages
- Although this manual was written for college teachers at the assistant
professor level, it can be of use to health professions faculty members
in research-based institutions. The major areas of focus are (1) acquiring
a professional frame of mind, (2) getting to know your territory, including
institutional expectations and the politics of getting promoted, (3) the
teaching challenge, including creating a new course and documenting your
teaching activities, (4) the research paradigm, (5) the service syndrome,
(6) a bottom line: getting published, and (7) presenting your credentials
for the ultimate decision.
Schubot, David B and Russel G. Robertson. The Administrator's Portfolio.
Milwaukee, WI: Medical College of Wisconsin, 1996.
- This resource provides a model for administrators to use in creating
a portfolio that documents their accomplishments in three areas (1) organizational
responsibilities, (2) leadership skills, and (3) management skills. The
worksheets and examples will help academic faculty document their administrative
roles.
Shils, Edward. The Academic Ethic. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1983.
10 pages
- Authored by an international committee of university professors,
this booklet describes traditional views of the values of academe, the purposes
of a university, and the obligation of its professors.
Simpson Deborah E., Ann C., Beecher, Janet C. Lindemann, and Jeffrey
A. Morzinski. The Educator's Portfolio. 3rd edition. Milwaukee, WI: Medical
College of Wisconsin, 1995.
- Also available in an electronic version with a user's manual.
- Both the wire-bound print version and the electronic version of this
resource provide a model for educators to use in creating a portfolio that
documents their thinking and work in 9 areas: (1) philosophy of education;
(2) curriculum development and instructional design; (3) teaching skills;
(4) assessment of learner performance; (5) adviser; (6) administration;
(7) regional and national scholarship; (8) continuing education; (9) honors;
and long term goals.
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