Faculty Toolkit

POLICY DOCUMENTS
Expert Medical Testimony Policy
Medical Testimony Request Form
MUSC Foundation Business Managers Form
MUSC Faculty Benefits Guide

FACULTY MENTORING PROGRAM
The goal is for each faculty member to achieve their full potential as a member of the Department of Medicine. It is vital that faculty see tangible evidence of that professional growth, whether it be in the easily measured domains of writing papers, receiving grants, or presenting lectures for students and trainees, or in the less easily measured aspects of teaching students, residents and fellows, mentoring junior faculty, or developing expertise in some area of clinical medicine. 

 Annual Mentoring Timeline

Components of Mentoring Program

• Department of Medicine Promotion Guidelines
• Updated FAIR CV
• Mentee evaluation of Mentor
• Mentor evaluation of Mentee 

Help Videos for Filling out Career Development Plan

• For Mentors
• For Mentees

Doumentation of Career Development
In order to achieve promotion and tenure, the professional growth of the faculty member must be documented. In addition to an up-to-date curriculum vitae in the format required by the College of Medicine, Department of Medicine (located in the Career Development folder in the DOM website) portfolios of research, teaching, and clinical accomplishments are important to develop and keep updated. To advance through the academic ranks, the quality of the faculty member’s individual scholarship is of critical importance, but depending on track, more emphasis will need to be placed on a specific portfolio e.g., for academic investigators, the research portfolio is most important, whereas for a faculty member in an academic educator track, the teaching portfolio is of primary importance. It is also acknowledged that there may be faculty who do not fit into one of these tracks, and their career development will be assessed on an individual bases. The overriding principal will be scholarship and evidence of growth, productivity, and service. Portfolio’s should include:

• Academic Researcher Portfolio
• Academic Educator Portfolio
• Academic Clinician Portfolio
  

MUSC/NIH Mentor Awards

• NIAMS MCRC Pilot Program
• NIH K Awards
• Faculty Development Endowment Fund (Mithoefer Lectureship Fund)
• T32 Training Grants
• Master of Science in Clinical Research (MSCR)
• Department of Medicine Yearly Mentor Awards (Basic, Clinical, and Education)