Programs + Workshops

Starting Up Your Research Group (SURGE)

This year-long course is for new assistant professors who are new principal investigators and leaders of research groups.  In the first quarter, participants learn management, mentoring and planning skills for their labs and research groups.  In the second quarter, the course focuses on the PI skills in managing self, work-life balance, and managing up.  In the third quarter, the course focuses on research administration and policies and teaching.

Upcoming sessions include: 

• Becoming a Research Investigator-- From the Ground Up: Building a Research Group
  
• Lab Management 101
• 360 Evaluation (Stanford Investigators and Lab Leadership Competencies)
• Hiring your team to get the work done - Practicalities
• Grant Preparation, Submission and Administration
• Managing your lab’s finances and other financial policies
• Getting Mentored as Faculty at Stanford
• Balancing and Growing Research Portfolio alongside Clinical/Administrative Duties
• Equity and Inclusive Practices and Resources
  
• Tips for Success- The Research Enterprise: Collaborations, Building Visibility and Rigor and Reproducibility
  
• Mentor as Coach: Giving Feedback
• The IDP Process

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Starting Up Your Research Group - Clinical (SURGE-C)

This cohort-based course is intended for assistant professors (PhD and/or MD) who will be/are leading clinical research programs, and Dr. Heather Moss is the course director.  Clinical research is broadly defined including, but not limited to, data research, observational human subjects research and interventional clinical trials.  The course will combine didactic overview and discussion of topics relevant to starting up a clinical research team, and performance of clinical research at Stanford.

Upcoming sessions include:

• Landscape: Introduction to Clinical Research at Stanford
• How to Choose Good Projects and Opportunities
• Building your team to get the work done: PI View 
• Hiring your team to get the work done - Practicalities
  
• Performance: Data, Management & Analysis
  
• Implementation: Local and Multi-site Regulatory Management
  
• Implementation: Contracts and Finances Pre-Award
  
• Finances: Getting Funding
  
• Getting Mentored as Faculty at Stanford
• Balancing and Growing Research Portfolio alongside Clinical/Administrative Duties
  
• Tips for Success- The Research Enterprise: Collaborations, Building Visibility and Rigor and Reproducibility 
• Equity and Inclusive Practices and Resources

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Starting Up Your Research Group II (SURGE II)

This cohort-based course provides leadership training for faculty who have managed research groups for at least 2 years, or have successfully completed SURGE. The course entails didactic as well as hands-on workshops, in addition to individual leadership assessment and coaching from a certified internal coach.

Pre-requisite: Completion of the School of Medicine's 360 evaluation process for assistant professors.

Participation: Limited to 15 faculty, by nomination from the department chair/ division chief.

Commitment: 7 sessions.  35-40 hours over a 4-5 month period.

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Clinician Educator Peer Networking Program

The Clinician Educator Peer Networking (CEPN) program provides in-person and virtual group networking opportunities for early career Clinician Educators (CEs) to build community, focus on physician wellness, and promote career satisfaction with others similarly engaged in the mix of clinical care, teaching, administrative and scholarly activities that advances clinical medicine throughout the Stanford Medicine ecosystem.

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Negotiation Skills Workshop Series

Join us in three workshops that bring to life key negotiation competencies through learning, reflection, and practice. Leave with tools to help you prepare well for future negotiations, no matter how big or small.

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Conflict Management

This popular workshop will explore critical negotiation theory such as competitive versus collaborative approaches and the identification of motivating interests to improve both your approach to negotiation and the quality of your outcomes.

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Faculty Peer Mentoring Program

Mentoring groups allow for consultation and sharing of perspective that can foster new collegial relationships, career planning, skills development and lead to opportunities to meet faculty from other departments or fields. The Office of Academic Affairs (OAA) is currently sponsoring groups up to 8 faculty.  Groups receive initial facilitation support.  As the year continues, the groups will be supported to self-manage with guidance from a peer facilitator who is a more senior faculty member.  

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OAA Faculty Writers Retreat

The Faculty Writers’ Retreat is a widely popular and longstanding program for assistant professors.  Grants, fellowships, papers, and books are all examples of work that was successfully accomplished at past retreats. The retreat offers participants dedicated time for academic writing in a quiet setting in the company of other faculty, in-person. 

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ELEVATE: Leadership Primer for Division Chiefs

ELEVATE is a 4-month cohort experience for recently-appointed chiefs that will run from late October 2024 to early February 2025. Every session will meet in-person for approximately 1.5 to 2.5 hours, including lunch. ELEVATE is intended to provide critical knowledge and skills, along with an invaluable opportunity to get to know and meet with key department, school, and system-level leaders.

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Mid-Career Talk Series

These workshops address specific topics related to strategies for career growth and adapting to the mentoring needs of a new generation of trainees and peers.  Workshops are by invitation.

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