Faculty Development and Diversity

• Key Documents
• Campus Resources
• Faculty Development Readings

The Department of Medicine aims to foster a respectful, creative, and collaborative environment that will support the faculty to maximize their contributions to the educational, research, clinical, and service missions of Boston University. To that end, we have collected the most frequently consulted documents for faculty in the DOM.

• Appointments and Promotions
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Joining the DOM
• Professionalism
• Profiles Research Networking
• Search Committee tools
• Self-Evaluation Tool
• Time Management
• Lending Library
• AAMC Research Means Hope

BUMC Resources

• Annual Evaluation
• Diversity and Multicultural Affairs
• Educational Media Center
• Faculty Central
• Faculty Practice Plan
• Information Technology
• Office of Medical Education
• Professionalism Policies
• Research resources
• Resource Guide for Medical Faculty

Boston University Resources

• Benefits Handbook
• BU Faculty Development
• BU Faculty Handbook
• BU Faculty and Staff Help
• BU Faculty Experts
• BU News Releases
• BU Ombudsperson
• Ethical Considerations
• Human Resources
• Information Center

Appreciative inquiry	Literature searches
Awards	Managing up
Basic scientists in a medical department	Medical errors
Behavior change	Meetings
Career development	Mentoring
Cell phone and Blackberry etiquette	Networking at conferences
Change management	Nonacademic careers
Communication skills	Oral presentations
Conflict management	Personality tests
Creativity	Plagiarism
Curiosity	Positive deviance
Delegation	Poster presentations
Depression	Project management
Disruptive professionals	Promotion
Diversity	Quality improvement
Education scholarship	Research facilities
Email survival	Resume writing
Emotional intelligence	Search committees
Ethics	Sexual harassment
Faculty development	Strategic planning
Faculty evaluation	Succession planning
Faculty retention	Suicide
Friends and foes in the workplace	Teaching skills
Future of academic medicine	Team-building theory
Generation gap	Transition to faculty
Grant writing	Translational research
Imposter	Women in medicine
Laboratory management	Work hours
Leadership	Work/life balance
Letters of reference	Writing for publication
Liberating structures