Write a 1-2 page description of your plans as an educator. Suggestions of things to include:
- advancement in position or faculty promotion
- future projects
- teaching skills to be improved, added or expanded
- continuing education
- professional organizations
- educational administration
Long-Term Goals Example
Associate Professor (Clinical Track)
The first of my goals is to continue to strengthen the fellowship program at the University of Iowa. The need for academic rheumatologists is beginning to be more widely recognized. In order to attract top-quality people to the University of Iowa, we need to identify promising internal medicine residents and students from within our own program (and from without) and encourage their interest through a mentoring process throughout their residency. Letting a resident know we value their skills and see a bright future for them in rheumatology can be a powerful tool. We also need to market rheumatology as an intellectually stimulating and rewarding profession.
I would also like to expand on my arthrocentesis project. We are in the process of exploring ways to measure outcomes of injections (patient satisfaction, observer documentation of "adequate skill", operator confidence, efficacy of injections and lack of side effects). Once these are in place we can measure outcomes for skilled, staff physicians and explore how much training is necessary for a trainee to reach this level.
I plan to work hard this year learning about the residency programs: the organizational structure, recruiting, its problems and its strengths. The key faculty for the residency program will need to be organized into several focus areas: VA, recruiting, and inpatient activities.
The Educator's Portfolio (1) from the Medical College of Wisconsin will be used as a model.
References
- Simpson DE, Beecher AC, Lindemann JC, Morzinski JA. The Educator's Portfolio. 4th Edition. Medical College of Wisconsin. 1998.