Faculty Development Programs

FRAME (Faculty Reaching for Academic Medical Excellence) is offered to all full time junior faculty (i.e., instructors, senior instructors and assistant professors).  Women and minority faculty are strongly encouraged to apply.  FRAME provides participants with the tools and time for individualized career self-reflection; a list of campus resources to support one’s work; guidance and insights from university leaders; and the opportunity to build a cohort of colleagues within the School of Medicine.  The program consists of seven half-day sessions, including two individualized one-hour coaching sessions with a Board Certified Coach. The curriculum includes activities in the following areas:

• Articulating your values and defining individual success

• Navigating and working within the culture of academic medicine

• Developing a career vision and career action plan

• Balancing work-life integration and maximizing effective time management to avoid burnout

• Learning best practices in networking, mentoring, sponsorship

• Identifying campus resources for working with students, honing presentation and teaching skills, and utilizing library resources

• Advancing your academic career (tenure-track and non-tenure track)

• Successfully managing an effective team (i.e., lab, project management)

• Developing research and grants management skills to ensure future success

• Working with diverse teams

• Understanding micro-aggressions and unconscious bias

• Improving your communication skills (e.g., writing)

• Mapping future steps on the leadership journey

Curriculum

Session I:  Who You Are in the Larger Context

Session II: Defining Success and Developing a Plan

Session III: Connections, Internal and Extern

Session IV: Teaching and Presenting

Session V:  Academic Advancement and Scholarship

Session VI: Teams and Inclusive Excellence

Session VII: Onward to the Future 

Class size will be limited to 25 participants with an emphasis on diverse faculty with respect to gender, race, ethnicity, and institutions.  There is a $450 fee to participate in this program.  CMEs are available. 

Applications are now being accepted for the FRAME program (Faculty Reaching for Academic Medical Excellence).  The 2023-2024 program includes 7 half day sessions that will run from August, 2023 through March, 2024.  The program also includes two coaching sessions with a Board Certified Coach. Applications will be accepted through June 23.

For more details and the application link, click here.

REFRAME is a new professional development program for mid to late career SOM faculty.  At this point in your career, you may be questioning what you defined as success earlier in your academic life.  This program will take you through the process of career revisioning and provide resources and insights to guide you in reengaging with your career.

The program consists of six half-day sessions. The curriculum will include developing a career vision statement, emotional intelligence, change and transition, risk taking, leadership lessons, and moving into the future. All class members will be eligible to participate in a 360-degree assessment.

The application for the REFRAME can be found here: TBD

Applications for the 2023-2024 academic year will be available in September 2023. The class will be limited to 25 participants and will be based on creating a diverse class. There is a $600 fee associated with this program. CMEs will be offered through this program.

CWRU's FLEX program began in 2012 when Dean Pamela B. Davis, Dean of the School of Medicine, endorsed a grass-roots concept of empowerment to potentially facilitate a culture change within the university faculty. Using focus groups to determine the barriers to achieve such a goal, members of the Steering Committee of Women Faculty School of Medicine (WFSOM) proposed a program to address the disparities in the number of women entering the field of health sciences as compared to the proportion of women in leadership positions in their field. The first FLEX class was held in 2012.  Over 160 women faculty have participated in the program.

Mission

FLEX: A Leadership Development Program for Women Faculty of the School of Medicine is a customized program that provides training and skills development to help talented women faculty advance their careers and prepare for leadership opportunities. Through a series of workshops and coaching sessions, FLEX provides executive leadership training to build competencies in communication, leadership, and executive presence.

Goals

• Increase the number of women in leadership positions
• Empower women to pursue national and international career opportunities 
• Decrease the attrition rate of high-achieving women, thereby increasing the proportion of women at higher academic ranks
• Develop a leadership pipeline of skilled and qualified women
• Serve as a national model for other academic organizations
• Become a destination site for leadership development for faculty in other academic medical centers

To learn more about FLEX, please visit https://case.edu/medicine/flex/

Applications for the 2023-2024 academic year will be available in August 2023.

Private coaching with a Board Certified Coach is available to all faculty members.   The agenda for the sessions is up to the faculty member but potential issues are:

• Assistance with developing a career plan

• Objective feedback on a situational issue

• Support in crafting a career vision

• Guidance on improving skills in negotiation, dealing with conflict, employee supervision, and lab management

Coaching provides the individual with an opportunity to work with a certified coach to work through the nuances of a situation or challenge.  The coach is trained to elicit constructive insights that will help the individual move forward and maximize his or her professional performance. The coaching process highlights self-understanding of one’s potential, provides insight into one’s internal and external challenges and ways to overcome those challenges, and presents a safe and objective setting to discuss career challenges.

If interested, please contact Susan Freimark at sbf@case.edu.

Offered by the Office of Faculty Development and the Provost’s Office, this program is open to all CWRU second-year tenure track faculty. The curriculum includes:

• Intentional Career Development
• Managing People
• Professional Development
• Self-Advocacy, Time Management, and Work Life Integration
• Navigating the Organization
• Two private coaching sessions

There is a fee associated with this program. Please visit https://case.edu/facultydevelopment/career/to-tenure-and-beyond to learn more.

This leadership and professional development program is open to all CWRU Asian faculty. Discussions provide opportunities for faculty to members to address professional development issues from the unique perspective of the Asian population. Curriculum includes

• Career and Leadership Visioning
• Cultural Differences
• Exceptional Presentations
• Emotional Intelligence (Includes 360-degree assessment)
• Relational Skills and Strategies of the Academic Leader
• Two private coaching sessions

Please visit https://thedaily.case.edu/2022-asian-faculty-association-academic-leadership-program/ to learn more.