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Faculty Mentoring

The Department of Emergency Medicine has long recognized the benefits of mentorship for early-career faculty clinicians. The department created its own formalized mentoring program, DEM Road Map, in 2003 to provide clear strategies for career advancement for its faculty.

The DEM program pairs a senior faculty member as a primary mentor with a more junior faculty member. All faculty create written career road maps vetted with mentors assigned by the department. Annual goals are driven by these road maps and are linked to annual performance reviews. Currently, Frank Walter, MD, professor of emergency medicine, directs the DEM mentoring program.

Faculty survey results have shown DEM faculty have greatly benefited from the department’s promotion criteria, academic mission and mentoring process, and the department has shared its mentoring road map with the college.

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Promotion and Tenure

Whom do I contact if I am thinking of applying for a promotion and/or tenure?

Who are the members of the DEM P&T Committee?

  • Every year at your annual review, you should check with your mentor, the P&T committee, and department chair to determine if you are on track to promote.
  • As soon as you decide to apply for promotion (no later than May 15), contact P&T coordinators and begin gathering materials (including updating your CV in the Provost format). You must meet with coordinators to discuss the timeline and checklist for turning in materials to the department.

Jan - MayCandidate notifies Faculty Affairs and DEM of promotion intentions
Meets with coordinators prior to April workshops
AprilCandidate attends workshops on P&T process and dossiers
May - Aug.Candidate prepares and submits dossier sections as completed to P&T coordinators
(CV and personal statement due July 1)
By Aug. 31Candidate delivers all completed dossier materials to department
Sept. - Nov.Candidate makes updates and edits to materials as requested by P&T coordinators
Dec. - Jan.Application finalized and, if approved by DEM, submitted to COM before January
Final approval will come from COM
April - JuneCandidate receives letters regarding decisions

  • 2-3 names of suggested outside evaluators: These are people with similar academic focus or interests who will review your dossier.
    • Must be at or above the level for which you are applying
    • Must not be a collaborator or close personal acquaintance
    • Can use members of national groups or committees to which you belong or are familiar with
    • Make Google your friend here!
  • List of collaborators, including email addresses and institutions, from whom coordinators will solicit collaborator letters: No numerical limit, and letters will require wet/scanned signatures
  • List of non-collaborators (colleagues, former students/residents, mentors, etc.) from whom we will solicit letters of support: No numerical limit, and letters will require wet/scanned signatures
  • Teaching evaluations from period in current rank (contact DEM education coordinators)
  • 2 peer evaluations from the past year: We will provide evaluation forms for either lecture, small group or bedside teaching. Peer reviewers must be at or above rank you are applying for.

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