The Association of American Medical Colleges has developed several programs for faculty developments and issued several important updates which can benefit the women in academic medicine at both junior and senior levels. To review the AAMC Updates, refer to: http://www.aamc.org.

 

The Development Seminar for Early Career Women Professionals
Scheduled for July 12-15, 2008 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington, DC.  Designed for women assistant professors, the program focuses on academic medicine career building and skills in CV development and basic management. The accomplished seminar faculty offer inspiration and valuable career advice.

The full program and application materials are available now on the AAMC meetings website:

• http://www.aamc.org/meetings/specmtgs/ewim08/start.htm

Applicants are asked to submit a Curriculum Vitae (CV) along with their online application.  Full details are included on the meetings website.

 

Upcoming AAMC Faculty Development
AAMC Group on Faculty Affairs (GFA) is holding its Professional Development Conference August 1-4, 2008, Pittsburgh, PA. A call for posters and presentations will be distributed to the GFA community in March.

Topics include: Faculty satisfaction, recruitment and retention, half day orientation for new faculty affairs deans, a town hall forum to announce GFA initiatives and opportunities to network with colleagues. 

 

2008 AAMC Annual Meeting
AAMC Annual Meeting October 31 – November 5, 2008, San Antonio, TX.  More info at: 

• http://www.aamc.org/meetings/annual/2008/start.htm.

AAMC, Health Organizations Urge Increased FY2009 Health Funding
The AAMC joined over 440 national organizations in a Feb. 19, 2008 letter to Congress urging increased funding for all federal public health activities and programs. The coalition recommends a $5.3 billion increase in the FY2009 discretionary funds allocated for health. For more information contact Governmental Relations at 202-828-0525.

 

The complete story is at:

• http://www.aamc.org/advocacy/library/washhigh/2008/022208/start.htm#1

AAMC Briefing on Medical Schools' Expansion (AAMC Clinical Mail 2/1/08)
Increasing medical school enrollment to meet the nation's rising demand for physicians isn't as simple as adding a few more chairs to a classroom, according to "Medical School Expansion: Challenges and Strategies," a new report released by the AAMC. The report finds that medical school administrators face numerous obstacles throughout their expansion efforts - including a lack of faculty resources, financial resources, and classroom and training space, but shows how careful planning helps to overcome these challenges.

• Press release
• To order the full report click here
  
• Related Article:  "AAMC Analysis in Brief"

New School of Medicine @ Texas Tech
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center President John C. Baldwin, M.D., announced late Tuesday that the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine "has been approved as a four-year medical school within the Texas Tech University System" by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME).  The school received initial, provisional accreditation and intends to admit its first class of 40 students in August 2009, eventually growing to accept some 80 students per year.  The LCME does not publicly announce accreditation decisions.

• Full Announcement

AAMC Report on Medical School Faculty Salaries, 2005-2006
The Report on Medical School Faculty Salaries, 2006-2007 is now available. This publication is the AAMC's 43rd review of full-time faculty compensation. The Report includes 33 tables that present the total compensation attributable to teaching, patient care, or research for 84,239 full-time medical school faculty. Fiscal year 2007 data were submitted by all of the 125 accredited medical schools in the United States that were administered the 2007 AAMC Faculty Salary Survey, and cover all sources of compensation: fixed/base salary, medical practice supplement, bonus/incentive pay, and uncontrolled outside earnings. The publication reports total compensation statistics for six faculty ranks in 79 departments/specialties. The tables provide the 25th percentile and 75th percentile as well as the mean and median for each combination of faculty rank and faculty department/specialty. The number of faculty in each total compensation statistic is given also.  

 

To order copies of this publication, go to: www.aamc.org/publications. 

 

Complimentary Web access to the tables from this publication is available at https://services.aamc.org/fssreports. If you have an AAMC Login, type in your user name and password. If you do not yet have an AAMC Login, click on the "Enter your access code to register" link, and then enter the case-sensitive access code ZioNCGob and follow the instructions provided on the screen to register for an AAMC Login. In the future, just log in with your user name and password.

  

Faculty Vitae Winter 2008 Issue Now Available
The Winter 2008 issue of Faculty Vitae focusing on educational scholarship is now available at http://www.aamc.org/facultyvitae. Articles include:

• Feature: The AAMC's Group on Educational Affairs (GEA) hosted a conference in 2006 to help articulate a set of common standards for selecting, presenting and evaluating evidence of educational contributions for academic promotion. Read conference highlights - what happened, next steps - access the full report released July 2007.
• Leadership Lesson: An educator portfolio (EP) details the scope, quantity, and quality of teaching activities to support professional development and advancement. Get answers to FAQs about EPs and download an EP template.
• Spotlight: Find out ways in which Dr. Ruth-Marie Fincher helped change how medical schools define, document, evaluate, reward and value medical school faculty members' educational contributions.
• Perspectives: Read interviews with Drs. Mary Lee, Karen Marcdante (ELUM) and James Woolliscroft regarding their advice about pathways and practices to educational scholarship.

Since Faculty Vitae is password-free, feel free to forward this issue, share any of its articles, or place this link in your own website for your colleagues' review.

Published by AAMC Faculty Development and Leadership, http://www.aamc.org/members/facultydev/start.htm . 

 

Nominations for Award Open
The Foundation for the History of Women in Medicine is currently accepting nominations for the 2008 Alma Dea Morani, M.D. Renaissance Woman Award.  This Award will honor an outstanding woman physician or scientist in North America who has advanced the practice and understanding of medicine in our lifetime and made significant contributions outside of medicine, for example, in the humanities, arts or social sciences, whose determination and spirit have carried her beyond traditional pathways in medicine and science; and who challenges the status quo with a passion for learning. Deadline for submission of nominations is April 15, 2008.

 

New Editor of Academic Medicine Seeks “Grand Challenges”  
In his first editorial, Academic Medicine’s new editor Steven L. Kanter, M.D. calls on readers to submit their thoughts on what they consider to be the “grand challenges” in academic medicine today. The goal of this emerging list of challenges is to advance the journal’s core mission, which is “to provide a scholarly treatment of pressing contemporary issues that affect medical schools and teaching hospitals.” To submit a “grand challenge” go to http://www.aamc.org/academicmedicine or send an email to editor@aamc.org . 

For more information:

• Go to http://www.academicmedicine.org/pt/re/acmed/fulltext.00001888-200801000-00001.htm

Executive Employment Opportunities
As many of you are aware, the AAMC faces significant change among its leadership staff this year with the transition of Richard Knapp, Joseph Keyes, and Robert Dickler, from their full-time executive positions. Dick, Joe, and Bob, who have been with the association 40, 37 and 15 years, respectively, have played key roles in forging the AAMC's reputation as a strong and respected voice for our
nation's medical schools and teaching hospitals.  In its search for new members of the executive team, the association will be looking for individuals with the same ability to represent and serve our members by implementing the strategic priorities identified through last year's Strategic Thinking and Positioning process.

Executive Employment Opportunities
As many of you are aware, the AAMC faces significant change among its leadership staff this year with the transition of Richard Knapp, Joseph Keyes, and Robert Dickler, from their full-time executive positions. Dick, Joe, and Bob, who have been with the association 40, 37 and 15 years, respectively, have played key roles in forging the AAMC's reputation as a strong and respected voice for our nation's medical schools and teaching hospitals.  In its search for new members of the executive team, the association will be looking for individuals with the same ability to represent and serve our members by implementing the strategic priorities identified through last year's Strategic Thinking and Positioning process.

AAMC has engaged a team at Spencer Stuart to conduct searches for four executive positions:

• Chief Academic Officer
• Chief Health Care Officer
• Chief Advocacy Officer
• Deputy Chief Scientific Officer

The specifications for all four positions can be found online at www.aamc.org/executivesearches.

The members of the AAMC are in the best position to identify qualified candidates, and I hope you will give this serious consideration.  You can bring candidates to AAMC attention either by contacting the Spencer Stuart team directly through their team coordinator Lynn Olman (lolman@spencerstuart.com or 312-396-3989) or through executivesearches@aamc.org.