The ultimate goal of the Department of Internal Medicine (IM) Mentoring Program is to guide and develop junior faculty members through their first promotion. To ensure a successful career as defined by both personal and professional success, we provide each faculty member with the mentoring and resources to become an excellent teacher, clinician and scholar as well as a good citizen of the division, department, university and to local, regional and national professional communities.
To achieve this goal, the department has developed a mentorship program in which mentors provide a regular and effective means of developing, supporting and monitoring individual career plans. The department has developed and will maintain an up-to-date departmental web site that will serve as a valuable career development informational resource for mentors and mentees alike.
The IM mentoring program provides structure and a process to assist, motivate and encourage junior faculty to achieve their full potential in patient care, academic and extramural service, and research/scholarship, thus ultimately earning promotion and recognition in their field of medicine and the academic community. This program does not supplant the role of division chiefs in this effort, nor does it intend to minimize or detract from their responsibilities in this regard. Instead the program intends to build upon existing efforts and present information that is critical to one's career advancement in a clear and concise format. While the mentoring program focuses primarily on junior faculty working toward their first promotion, it is not limited only to that group.