Resources
The Office of Faculty Development and Diversity strives to improve the faculty experience with a wide range of resources to help you achieve personal and academic success.
Mentorship
Mentoring relationships are an excellent way to enhance professional growth and improve career satisfaction. Our mentorship guide is offered as a resource to support mentoring activities at Cedars-Sinai.
Search Committees
Cedars-Sinai is committed to attracting and developing the highest level of clinical and research faculty candidates. We offer guidelines to assist department chairs, institute directors, and search committee chairs and members in the search committee process. They are also intended to enhance the expansion and diversity of applicant pools in faculty searches.
To avoid unintentional bias, it is important for committee members to recognize the potential for positive and negative stereotyping. The following may be helpful to educate search committees on unconscious bias.
"What You Don't Know: The Science of Unconscious Bias and What To Do About It in the Search and Recruitment Process" (AAMC).
- Preface: Biases and Heuristics (5:14)
- Lesson 1: Schemas (3:12)
- Lesson 2: Attitudes and Stereotypes (4:13)
- Lesson 3: Real World Consequences (3:45)
- Lesson 4: Explicit v. Implicit Bias (2:49)
- Lesson 5: The IAT (5:14)
- Lesson 6: Countermeasures (5:23)
- Implicit Association Tests
Outreach for Faculty Candidates for Minorities
Articles and Resources
- Altering the Course: Black Males in Medicine
- AAMC Report: The State of Women in Academic Medicine: The Pipeline and Pathways to Leadership, 2013-14.
- AAMC Report: Diversity in the Physician Workforce: Facts and Figures 2014
- Transgender Affirming Hospital Policies
- Healthcare Equality Index
- Diversity in Medical Education
- Implementing Curricular and Institutional Climate Changes to Improve Health Care for Individuals Who Are LGBT, Gender Nonconforming, or Born with DSD
Physician Wellness
These resources and articles help enhance strategies for resilience and wellbeing.
- Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Resources: Wellbeing in Academic Medicine
- National Academy of Medicine Clinician Well-Being Knowledge Hub
- Physician Burnout: The Root of the Problem and Path to Solutions
- Stanford Medicine WellMD
- American Medical Association Steps Forward
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) Physician Wellness Toolkit
COVID-19 Resources for Faculty Development
- Faculty Development Factory: Tools and resources for faculty development, including weekly podcasts on topics such as leadership, grant writing and mentorship
- AAMC MedEd Portal: Virtual Learning Resources During COVID-19
- Upcoming Webinars on Building Better Curriculum
- Edge for Scholars
Medical Professional Societies
Professional Societies: Medical professional societies (e.g., the Society of General Internal Medicine, American College of Surgeons) provide excellent venues to showcase faculty scholarship through oral presentations, workshops and posters. The societies also offer an opportunity for faculty to engage with colleagues nationally or regionally, develop professional networks and obtain leadership roles in one’s discipline.
Endocrinology
- American Academy of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE)
- American Diabetes Association
- Endocrine Society
Gastroenterology
- American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD)
- The European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL)
General Internal Medicine
Geriatrics
- American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
- American Geriatrics Society (AGS)
- Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC)
Hematology Oncology
Hospital Medicine
Infectious Disease
Nephrology
- American Society of Nephrology (ASN)
- International Society of Nephrology (ISN)
- National Kidney Foundation
Pulmonology & Critical Care
- American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists (AAGL)
- The American College for Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
- American Society for Reproductive Medicine
- American Urogynecologic Society
- Association of Professors in Gynecology and Obstetrics (APGO)
- Council of Resident Education in Ob/Gyn (CREOG)
- Gynecologic Oncology Group
- The North American Menopause Society (NAMS)
- North American Society for Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
- Society for Family Planning
- Society of Gynecologic Surgeons
- Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM)
- Society for Reproductive Investigation (SRI)
- Society of Gynecologic Oncology (SGO)
- American Academy of Neurology (AAN)
- American Academy of Sleep Medicine
- American Association of Neuromuscular & Electrodiagnostic Medicine (AANEM)
- American Epilepsy Society
- American Neurological Association (ANA)
- The American Society of Neuroimaging (ASN)
- Neurocritical Care Society
- Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology
- The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma
- American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS)
- American College of Surgeons
- American Pediatric Surgical Association
- American Society for Surgery of the Hand
- The American Society of Breast Surgeons
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons
- American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery
- Association for Academic Surgery
- Association of Program Directors in Surgery
- General Thoracic Surgical Club (GTSC)
- International Pediatric Endosurgery Group (IPEG)
- Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES)
- Society of Surgical Oncology
- Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)
- Western Trauma Association
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