MENTORING MONTH

January 2023 http://tiny.ucsf.edu/radmentor

Faculty Development

Susan Wall, MD, advisor to the Chair, leads these efforts and continues to source opportunities for faculty development, available grants, courses and faculty awards. Together with Elissa Price, MD she continues to lead the highly sought-after faculty speaker training course. This small group intense three afternoon workshop focuses on teaching lecturing skills through practice, feedback and re-presentation.

Academic Advancement

Our Merits & Promotions (M&P) committee consists of 12 Full Professor faculty and myself, with representatives from each of our affiliate sites at VAMC, ZSFG and BCHOakland. Each of our committee members contributes many hours of packet review and preparation and contributes to the often-complex discussions over our six meetings. Their service to our department and their support for our faculty is greatly appreciated.

For the most recent cycle with advancements effective July 2022, our M&P committee reviewed and discussed 65 packets including 10 promotions and 11 accelerations approved. We are enormously proud of our faculty’s hard work, particularly through the challenges brought by the pandemic over the last two years.

Non-Faculty Academics (NFAs)

Our academic affairs team also manages and in 2020 formalized the hiring, visa applications, and on-boarding process for our NFA faculty who contribute enormously to our research efforts in the department. In 2021 we instituted a formalized annual review process for all NFAs was well as more formalized merits and promotions process to promote successful development of their career potential at UCSF.

Faculty Inclusion, Recognition and Celebration

We have many department committees with opportunities for our faculty to be involved in shared decision making, governance and management of our work practice. We have endeavored over the last 3 years to increase representation on these committees across academic series and ranks, and across different hospital and research working sites. Committee chairs have been charged with diversifying their membership along these lines and have enthusiastically addressed this issue.

Since July 2020 we have created an Annual Celebration of our faculty (online and hardcover) to recognize the new faculty, retiring faculty, academic promotions, and faculty Departmental awards.