Call for Applicants

Faculty Development will sponsor an Early-Career Women Faculty member to attend the AAMC's Early-Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar to be held July 11 -14, 2009 in Washington, DC

Target Audience:

The Early Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar is a three-day program designed for women assistant professors. The program focuses on academic medicine career building and skills in CV development and basic management skills. The accomplished seminar faculty offer inspiration and valuable career advice. Attendees are encouraged to develop career goals and objectives through the career mapping sessions. The seminar is targeted primarily at physicians, but is also pertinent for Ph.D. scientists.

Seminar Objectives (CME credit available):

To assist each participant in creating an agenda for working toward her professional development goal
To provide participants with insights into the realities of building a career in academic medicine, into key ways in which academic medicine is changing, and into leadership qualities demanded by these realities and changes.
To provide participants with insights into the realities of building a career in academic medicine, into key ways in which academic medicine is changing, and into leadership qualities demanded by these realities and changes.
To help participants to expand their network of colleagues and role models and to bring new energy to their networking.
To assist participants in identifying the skill areas on which they most need to work and give them a start in developing them.

The 2009 program is available online at: http://www.aamc.org/meetings/wim/ewim/2009/start.htm

Submission Process and Deadline:

Interested women faculty should submit a current CV and a brief (max. 1.5 page) response to the following:

1. Describe your over-all professional career goals, in particular, your interest in establishing a leadership position in
academic medicine.

2. How do you imagine utilizing the skills learned in the AAMC Professional Development Seminar at UCDHS?

Please submit all required material via email to: felicia.carrillo@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu
Finalist will be required to complete an AAMC application by March 6, 2009.

Deadline: February 23, 2009