Does the academic promotion system feel rigged?

Your hard work as an educator doesn’t translate into promotion committee appreciation. You are constantly creating innovative and important educational products for your program or your department, and yet you’re constantly told you need to “produce more” to get promoted. You’re not the only one who feels that something isn’t right about this.

The simple truth is that fulfilling our educational mission doesn’t translate into promotion currency. Our researcher colleagues may have to chase grants, but the outcome of their work is translates exactly into the currency of P&T committees. Educators, on the other hand, have to carry the educational mission and find time to generate scholarship – all with shrinking salary support for both endeavors. It should be no wonder that clinician educators are at high risk for burnout, delayed promotion or abandoning academic medicine altogether.

Scholarly coaching can help.

Scholarly coaching can help you generate the motivation and skills to turn your educational work into the kind of scholarship valued by promotion committees. Like a chemical reaction, all you need is a little activation energy to get over the hump and generate powerful results. Whether it’s a little strategic planning in advance of an education project or a little extra work after the fact, coaching can make the small changes needed to reap big benefits in scholarly output.

Academic Educator Coaching can help with develop your scholarship skills and get promoted 

• Create accountability mechanisms to help you stick with your projects
• Identify innovative methods to turn existing work into disseminated scholarship
• Find the right venue for disseminating your work to the world
• Cultivate your writing skills and personal voice
• Help identify and apply for sources of funding for education projects
• Navigate the IRB submission and review process
• Generate networks of collaborators
• Cultivate your personal niche and brand in academia