Faculty Mentoring Plan

Faculty will have one-on-one mentoring of junior faculty (Assistant Professors) by senior faculty (Professors). All of these mentoring responsibilities are completely discretionary, in that either the senior or junior partner in the mentorship relationship can choose to reassign to another primary mentor.

The mentor will have the primary responsibility for helping junior faculty plan for development of their academic professional career with respect to both teaching and research/scholarship activities. This will not be exclusive, in the sense that there will be various workshops on teaching methodologies and assessment led by internal and external guides that will be arranged on an ongoing basis to ensure both junior and senior faculty are familiar with current thought leaders in the area of education.

Clinical faculty will benefit not only from the experience of senior clinical faculty but will have the opportunity to interact with members of the SOP Advisory Board and with clinical preceptors from various institutions.

All faculty will be strongly encouraged to participate in local, national, and international professional meetings in their areas of professional and scholarly interest. All faculty, in clinical, administrative, and basic sciences will have the opportunity to devote 25% of their time to scholarly pursuits that can also involve collaborations with researchers and/or faculty at other institutions.