Career Advancement at the Ƶ
MCW is a place where faculty know their careers and lives can flourish. The Office of Faculty Affairs is focused on ensuring career advancement for faculty across their lifespan—from new faculty onboarding through retirement. We provide guidance to faculty by identifying avenues for advancement and offering resources and trainings to help prepare for each progressive step in their careers.
Programs
Career Advancement Programming
We offer programming specifically designed to meet each faculty member at their level of need throughout their career. Our career advancement programs include discussions about the role of self-promotion and career planning, discussions about career goals and objectives, review the promotion processes at MCW, provide tips and tricks for CVs and Portfolios, and allows faculty the opportunity for personalized CV review and mentoring with members of leadership groups across the institution including the Rank Committees.
New Faculty Onboarding
The purpose of the session is to welcome new faculty to MCW and provide them with the tools, resources and connections to start their careers successfully. As part of onboarding, there is an overview presentation on MCW as well as presentations on well-being, faculty engagement and faculty development. There are also opportunities for networking.
Faculty Peer Mentoring Circles
The Faculty Peer Mentoring Circles are designed to provide peer support to faculty around a variety of important topics, including: work-life balance, retirement, leadership and promotion.
Resources
Awards
Distinguished Service Award
The Distinguished Service Award (DSA), MCW’s highest honor, pays tribute to current or former full-time faculty, volunteer faculty or staff members for their significant and distinguished contributions to the Ƶ.
ELAM Program
The Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women accepts applications every fall. Currently, four out of the 15 women deans at US medical schools are ELAM alumnae. At MCW, too, we have a very distinguished group of ELAM alumnae - which is a feather in the cap of our institution.
The ELAM Program is the only in-depth national program dedicated to preparing senior women faculty at schools of medicine, dentistry, and public health to effect sustained positive change as institutional leaders. ELAM's intensive one-year fellowship program of executive education, personal leadership assessments and coaching, and networking and mentoring activities supports ELAM Fellows as they move into positions of institutional leadership where they can effect positive change.
For more information, visit Drexel University's ELAM Program website or contact the MCW Office of Faculty Affairs at (414) 955-8666 or facultyaffairs@mcw.edu.
Faculty Service Award
Faculty provide service to MCW through their work on the MCW Faculty Council. Through these faculty members' efforts, we advance MCW's mission to (1) be a national leader in education and development of the next generations of physicians and scientists; (2) discover and translate new knowledge in the biomedical sciences; (3) provide cutting-edge interdisciplinary and compassionate clinical care of the highest quality; and (4) improve the health of the communities we serve.
The Faculty Career Development Committee (FCDC) seeks to affirm the importance of this work by recognizing those individuals who have provided outstanding committee service during the academic year.
Selected faculty will receive a Faculty Service pin and recognition letter at a fall MCW Faculty Council meeting and their names will be listed in various MCW publications.
Presidents Diversity and Inclusion Award
MCW's President’s Diversity and Inclusion Award recognizes the accomplishments of faculty, staff, students, residents, trainees and community members that contribute to diversity and inclusion through exemplary leadership. Recipients should demonstrate a commitment to diversity and inclusion through recruitment and retention efforts, teaching, research, multi-cultural programming, cultural competency, community outreach activities, or other initiatives.
Areas of Achievement: Success in leading and enhancing diversity and inclusion efforts can be demonstrated in many ways. Nominations should be based on demonstrated leadership in one or more of the following areas:
- Activities to recruit, retain, and professionally develop individuals who increase the diversity of MCW faculty or staff.
- Activities to attract or recruit students who increase the diversity of MCW or to help ensure the success of those students.
- Activities to create leadership teams and organizations that promote a diverse and inclusive culture.
- Sponsorship or active promotion of programs, initiatives, or projects in the area of diversity and inclusion.
- Collaboration with campus or community groups in the creation, sponsorship, and implementation of programs, initiatives, or projects in the area of diversity and inclusion.
Nominations can be submitted by individual employees (including supervisors, direct reports and peers of the nominees), students, student organizations and community based organizations.
The Diversity and Inclusion Awards Selection Committee will choose a maximum of two award recipients per year. Award recipients will be honored during the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration and their names will be added to an awards plaque. Each President’s Diversity and Inclusion Award includes a $2,500 prize.
Professional Enrichment Awards
The Professionalism Enrichment Awards recognizes two members of the Ƶ community who exemplify the core commitments of the Professionalism Code: respect, excellence and magnanimity.
Nomination Criteria
- All MCW employees at any location are eligible for nomination.
- Nominations may be submitted by MCW employees, residents, students, student organizations, community-based organizations, partner institutions, or anyone willing to recognize an employee of MCW.
Society of Teaching Scholars
Conceptualized in the late 1980’s by Herbert M. Swick, MD, then the MCW Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, the Society's mission was to “by example and action, stimulate innovation in medical education and represent excellence in education in faculty forums.”
Since its twelve charter members were installed at the college-wide convocation exercises in September 1990, the Society has elected three new members annually over its fifteen year history, with sixty installed members drawn from fifteen different specialties/disciplines. Activities and events include:
- Sponsorship of the National Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA) teaching award receipt as a visiting professor at an annual symposium.
- Selection of the award recipients for the Edward J. Lennon Endowed Clinical Teaching Award and the Marvin Wagner Preceptor Award.
Each year since 1990, three full time MCW faculty have been elected to the MCW Society of Teaching Scholars (STS) whose mission is to, by example and action, stimulate innovation in medical education and represent excellence in education in faculty forums.
Contact Office of Faculty Affairs
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8701 Watertown Plank Rd.
Milwaukee, WI 53226