a practitioner’s tips for balancing teaching, service and scholarship kelly m. smith, pharmd,...
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A Practitioner’s Tips A Practitioner’s Tips for Balancing for Balancing Teaching, Service and Teaching, Service and ScholarshipScholarship
Kelly M. Smith, PharmD, FASHPKelly M. Smith, PharmD, FASHPAssociate Professor, Pharmacy Practice and Associate Professor, Pharmacy Practice and ScienceScienceDirector, Residency Program AdvancementDirector, Residency Program AdvancementUniversity of Kentucky College of PharmacyUniversity of Kentucky College of PharmacyClinical Specialist, Medication Use PolicyClinical Specialist, Medication Use PolicyUniversity of Kentucky HealthCareUniversity of Kentucky HealthCare
Study for BPS exam
Student organization advisor
Classroom teaching
Create new case
Update teaching portfolio
Complete resident evaluation
Attend national meeting
Prepare CE presentation
Student advisor
Conduct manuscript peer-review
Lead resident topic discussion
Deliver inservice presentation
Student rotationsAttend staff meeting
Submit grades
Hold office hours
Page Dr. Jones
Resident advisor
Take meeting minutes
Revise teaching philosophy
Assemble P&T Meeting Agenda Resident rotations
Create drug use guidelines
Attend resident preceptor meeting
Update course syllabusPrepare grant
application
Write test questions
Write manuscript
Design poster
Attend committee meetings
Submit IRB proposal
Interview residency applicants
Interview student applicants
National committee member
Conference call
Employee evaluations
Voice mail
Document medication history
Verify medications
OutlineOutline
• Observations from experience Observations from experience in both clinical and tenure-track in both clinical and tenure-track positions at a research positions at a research universityuniversity• Incorporate patient care and Incorporate patient care and
institutional projects into a plan institutional projects into a plan for personal academic successfor personal academic success
Inquire
• Ability to create a job description– Agreement from department chair
and practice supervisor– Re-evaluate often
• Likelihood of finding protected time– The earlier, the better– Much is given, much is expected
Inquire
• Expectations of service, teaching and scholarship
• Perceived value of specific activities– Publications – quantity, peer review,
impact factor, scope, interprofessional– Advising – residents, students, student
organizations– Committee participation– Meeting attendance
Identify
• Successful colleagues in similar roles
• Mentors, advisors and confidantes– Feedback may be rare
• Focus for personal development• Short and long-term career goals• Political landscape
Investigate
• Resources to develop your skill set– Campus offices, research collaborators
• Suitable approaches to consulting– Role of a practice plan– Continuing education– Industry– Legal
Invest
• Expansion of your abilities• Projects to cultivate your expertise• Developing relationship with chair
and other colleagues• Professional network outside the
department, college and university
Implement
• New services, teaching models, and other innovations– Share your successes
• Residency programs• Carry projects through until
completion and assessment
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man
is a piece of the Continent, a part of the
main.
-John Dunne (1572-1631)
Integrate
• Culture and mission of environment• Students and residents in all
aspects of your position– Service, teaching and scholarship
• Become irreplaceable, yet adaptable
• Other disciplines
Independence
• Cultivate an independent reputation– Scholarship – first and senior author– Teaching – practice-grounded
innovation– Service – internally and externally
• Self-assessment of progress
Illustrate
• Demonstrate value and reproducibility of innovations, both internally and externally
• Visibility as contributor and good citizen
• Multiple roles of a contemporary clinician-educator to students and residents