COURSE DESCRIPTION
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- Individual Faculty Career Development: Goals, Objectives, Outcomes Planning
- Teaching Philosophy Development and Peer Feedback
- Scholarship and Research Aims Development and Peer-Mentor Feedback
- Scholarship-in-Progress Research (SiPR) Project Development
- Self-Management and Temperament Profile
- Organization Culture, Leadership and Management Profile
- Negotiation and Conflict Management Style Assessment
- Leadership @ Lunch with University Executives, Deans, and Senior Officers
Teaching & Learner Assessment | Building an Educator’s Portfolio
Sessions identify and enhance participant skills in the preparation, presentation, and assessment of information for learners and understanding instructional methods as a toolkit for improving learning outcomes. Faculty Fellows are guided in the development of instructional objectives as tools for teaching and learner assessment, conduct a micro-teaching session, develop a micro-learning assessment instrument, deliver to peers, and receive written peer feedback.
Products: a one-page teaching philosophy as a foundation for demonstrating excellence as an educator. Teaching goal (longitudinal), SMART objectives (outcomes and metrics) integrated into the IFcDP for feedforward planning and discussion with their Leadership Fellow’s sponsor.
Scholarship, Research, and Creative Achievement | Creating and Piloting Scholarly Aims
Sessions focus on participant scholarly goals and articulating a personal research agenda to build skills in the development of funding requests in scientific, clinical, and/or educational areas. Faculty Fellows develop and/or refine a research question, identify the literature, or evidence gaps, identify research tools, funding sources, and required steps in the research process. Participants identify a scholarly project, research question/hypothesis to address during the program and present as “scholarly work-in-progress” to qualify for graduation.
Products: Scholarship-in-Progress Research Abstract/potentially ready for submission to internal or external funders, specific aims page, research framework appropriate to the Faculty Fellows academic career trajectory. Scholarly goals are integrated into the IFcDP for feedforward planning and discussion with the assigned FLP Peer Mentor and the Leadership Fellow’s sponsor.
Faculty Roles & University Service | Organization, Academic, and Professional Culture and Engagement
Examines the service dimensions of faculty responsibilities including demonstrating leadership, team, and individual benchmarking outcomes through service initiatives whether educational “administration,” clinical, research-related, or professional. Faculty Fellows explore how to improve feed-forward and feedback from service-related work (e.g., clinical practice, committee membership, discipline-related or multi, or interdisciplinary service) and identify appropriate service roles that measurably contribute to department, college, and university objectives.
Products: Quantifying Return on Invested time benchmarks that tell the story to university stakeholders. Participants will identify their service “projects” and expected outcomes for discussion with the sponsor.
Professional Academic Skills | Self-Management, Teams, Peer-Mentors, and Leadership in Contemporary Academia
Academic Career Foundations. Sessions are designed to develop the participant’s personal capabilities central to understanding the culture of the academic health professional community, academic culture and the interface with personal and professional cultures, values, practices, and beliefs. Objectives center on developing organizational and time management skills, the capacity for self-direction, self– and peer-assessment, and goal setting.
Individual Faculty Career Development Plan. Setting specific goals for professional development in the core areas of faculty work is a required and mentored element of the program. Proposed goals are drafted and reviewed by the Program Director and with the Faculty Fellow’s sponsor. The IFcDP primarily focuses on goals for teaching effectiveness (benefits and outcomes for learners) and research/scholarship aims and achievements.
Communication Styles and Skills. Multiple sessions cultivate participant knowledge and skills for effective written and oral communication of concepts, ideas, and technical information, and the ability to understand communication styles used by colleagues, students, leadership, and/or laypersons (patients and the public). Fellows complete and receive feedback from the Keirsey Temperament Sorter® as tools for assessing personality factors that influence expressive and receptive communication and negotiation approaches.
Leadership, Policy, and Principled Negotiation. Multiple sessions introduce tools and strategies for strategic decision-making, leadership perspective, and the nuances of values statements and ethical decision making in academic and professional organizations. Improving participant’s understanding of the formal and informal facets of the university include identifying the knowledge and skills needed to manage oneself, others, money, and time while assessing personnel or facility/financial resources committed to projects and programs. Emphasis is placed on effective skills for principled negotiation.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
The OU Health Sciences Faculty Leadership Program (FLP) is tailored to individual faculty goals within an interprofessional learning community. The overall objectives are to:
- Enhance the capabilities of OU Health Sciences faculty by improving their ability to:
- Prepare, present, and assess information to be taught to students and professionals and communicated to laypersons or community-based audiences.
- Articulate a research goal and develop a scholarship-in-progress plan and proposal as a foundation for future funding requests in scientific, clinical, public health, or educational research.
- Identify the formal and informal organizational issues in the academic health sciences center that promote or detract from goal alignment and organizational learning.
- Demonstrate the ability to manage self, others, money, and time on various projects and programs relevant to measurable outcomes and academic career benchmarks.
- Work through collaborative efforts, build a team, be self-directed, and demonstrate leadership skills including those necessary for effective negotiation.
Each seminar session includes specific learning objectives for the session topics. Most sessions include hands-on practice, case examples, or the development of a product relevant to building the early career faculty “toolbox” and professional portfolio.
- Contribute to faculty and institutional vitality through individual, team, and leadership development experiences that the overall program objectives for the College and OU Health Sciences are to:
- Offer faculty access to a clear and comprehensive understanding of the academic health sciences center organization and ways in which the academy is affected by internal and external priorities in education, research, health, and public policy.
- Prepare a cadre of individuals who have made, and will continue to make, a personal investment in their continuing professional development as academicians.
- Develop a cadre of individuals who have learned and worked collaboratively across discipline and college boundaries to accomplish commonly held objectives.
- Enhance and facilitate the capacity for faculty to share their academic and research skills with colleagues as peer mentors and coaches.
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS
Candidates need not be tenure-track faculty. Faculty members from any OU Health Sciences college are eligible to apply.
Faculty Leadership Fellows are typically early career faculty at the Assistant Professor rank who have been at OU Health Sciences for at least 12 months.
Candidates are individuals embarking on their academic careers who the sponsor believes show promise for academic career advancement.
A completed application and a letter of recommendation from the candidate’s department chair or dean (e.g., sponsor) are required.
COURSE REQUIREMENTS
- Attendance is expected at all sessions.
- The program requirements include 100 professional development hours during a 9-month period. This is approximately 4.5% of a 50-hour work week; approximately 12 workdays.
- FLP program sessions are scheduled in advance and are typically held on Wednesdays.
- On seminar program days Faculty Fellows are unavailable for other responsibilities.
- FLP Faculty fellows should schedule program dates on their calendars immediately upon notification of acceptance.
- Due to the format of the early career faculty leadership program, there are no make-up sessions.
Missed sessions may jeopardize a candidate’s qualifications for graduation.
Graduation and Letter of Completion
Leadership Faculty Fellows who successfully complete the required program elements meet the criteria to graduate from this continuing professional development offering. Required program elements include expected preparation and engagement in the required hours and preparing the assigned academic portfolio work products for peer review, including a Scholarship-in-Progress Research (SiPR) scholarly project. Graduates receive the program letter of completion and an additional citation from the University to mark the achievement.
There are no make-up sessions for missed content due to planned or unplanned absences. Faculty Fellows are asked to notify the Program Director in advance of any planned absence. Full participation is expected, and there are no make-up sessions for missed program activities. Leadership Faculty Fellows must successfully complete at least 75 of the 100 estimated continuing professional development hours to finish the program with a letter and citation. All hours earned will be noted for participating fellows and their sponsors.
All scheduled activities count towards the required hours. See the Program-at-a-Glance
Program Alumni. Leadership Faculty Fellow candidates are encouraged to speak with colleagues who are Faculty Leadership Alumni. For a listing of Alumni from your college please contact the Faculty Development Office at 405-271-5557 or explore the Alumni tab.
Questions. Email Us: FacDev@OUHSC.edu | Call Us: 405-271-5557