The U-M Medical School Department of Surgery is fully committed to promoting, retaining and advancing all faculty and residents by addressing unique barriers and challenges.
The Faculty & Resident Launch Program is a multifaceted, 3-year program that creates an intentional, team-based approach to mentorship and development of early-career faculty members and residents. The program is open to all faculty members and residents within the Department on each track, and is designed with flexible elements to tailor the program toward an individual’s professional and personal needs.
Mentorship occurs through teams that include faculty members within the Department of Surgery, as well as mentors from other disciplines with unique expertise in key areas of faculty growth. Teams will support and guide faculty members through the first few years of practice and residents during their academic development time, focusing on aspects of performance that are critical for success and well-being: clinical care, academics, education, and leadership.
Boost Teams
Boost Teams is an initiative within the Faculty & Resident Launch Program for newly promoted Associate Professors in the department. Each participant in this program will be assigned a Boost Team consisting of 4-6 members with relevant knowledge and experience who will provide support for career planning.
The goal of the Directed Sabbatical Time is to enable faculty to devote focused time away from the daily operational tasks of clinical surgery in the pursuit of professional improvement and productive scholarship. Directed Sabbatical Time occurs away from standard teaching, administrative and clinical duties to pursue a professional interest best accomplished through a dedicated period of full immersion.
Once faculty members have completed the 8-week program, they will present the results of their directed sabbatical time to their fellow Department of Surgery faculty members.
Beginning in their 3rd year of appointment at the Department of Surgery, faculty members across all tracks and levels are eligible to be nominated by their section for this program.
We created a mentorship program to encourage camaraderie and engagement across all “generations” of surgical training by providing dedicated time to support necessary mentoring and coaching. Each mentoring “family” consists of one or two medical students interested in surgery, a general surgery categorical PGY-1, an academic development time (ADT) resident, and a faculty member. This framework allows multiple members to meet and engage in a bidirectional mentoring experience in an efficient manner.
We believe that everyone is a mentor. Mentorship is essential to professional development and long-term career success, leading to stronger career trajectories and higher levels of productivity for those who have an effective mentorship experience.
The mentorship academy brings together experts on mentorship to highlight strategies and skills for exemplary mentorship. The ultimate goal of the mentorship academy is to provide mentorship insights and tools that will support a new generation of mentors in leading academic medicine and scholarship into the future.
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