Educator, Researcher, and Clinician Programs
The Office of Faculty Professional Development, Diversity and Inclusion for CUIMC offers a number of programs and workshops that aim to serve the needs of the faculty and their development in their various areas of focus. Relevant materials from past programs are offered and continuously updated on this page.
Education & Teaching
The Summer Institute for Teaching and Learning
The Summer Institute for Teaching and Learning is a two-day workshop devoted to exploring effective teaching and learning strategies in health sciences education. This event is designed for junior faculty or senior faculty who recently taken on a new teaching role.
Annual
For more information, visit the website:
http://ctl.columbia.edu/programs/browse-our-programs/institutes/cumc-summer-institute/
The Summer Institute for Teaching and Learning special fall workshop
"Tricks of the Trade: Designing Effective Multiple Choice Questions"
Past Offering: Monday, November 17, 2014
CUIMC Educator Clinic
"Educational Scholarship: What it is and How to Develop it!"
Resources:
http://www.stonehill.edu/offices-services/ctl/scholarship-of-teaching-and-le/sotl-journals-and-conferences/
http://fod.msu.edu/oir/scholarship-teaching-and-learning-sotl#SoTL_Journals
Past Offering: January 13, 2016
"Advancing your Career as an Educator at CUMC"
Materials:
Area of Focus Self-Assessment Tool- CUMC
Criteria for Advancement in the Educator Track
Educator Resources
Educator Track
Section 12 Educator CUIMC CV
Past Offering: Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Area of Focus Development Series
"Career Success Strategies for Educators"
This professional development series helps attendees understand approaches to advancement in the three areas of focus at CUIMC. Sessions review the definition of the specific focus area and the requirements for promotion in these focus areas. Strategies for creating and expanding a scholarly portfolio for each area of focus are discussed.
Past Offering: January 23, 2014
"Strategies for Faculty Career Success at CUMC"
In this brown-bag session, strategies for successful faculty career development at CUIMC are discussed, as well as CUIMC’s new faculty track system and areas of academic focus. Panelists from all four CUIMC schools will be present to provide perspective and answer questions.
Past Offering: October 1, 2013
Faculty Development Series
"Success in the New Academic Tracks"
Session 2 – Educational Scholarship/Leadership Focus
This brownbag session is devoted to the Educational Scholarship/Leadership Focus of the new "At CUMC" academic title and covers the following topics:
- Review of the specific description, scholarship and evaluation metrics for this area of focus of the new “at CUMC” faculty titles
- Overview of how faculty can organize their career paths for success
- Q&A with faculty from all four CUIMC schools involved in the development and implementation of the new faculty track systems.
Past Offering: April 5, 2013
Research & Investigation
NIH Grant Workshops for Junior Faculty and Postdoctoral Researchers
These workshops provide guidance on applications for NIH career development (K awards) and crafting effective specific aims.
"Navigating NIH: An overview of NIH and the Grant Review Process"
This session provides a guide to navigating the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Mentored Career Development (K) Awards, the grant review process, and the steps to completing and submitting an application.
Past Offering: November 16, 2018
Materials:
15 Steps for a Successful Career Development Application
"Know Your K (K01, K08, K23 Awards)"
This session provides the components of the application for the various K Award applications.
Past Offering: November 16, 2018
Materials:
"Know Your Kangaroo: Pathway to Independence K99/R00"
This session provides an overview of the application process for NIH career development K99/R00 awards.
Past Offering: November 16, 2018
Materials:
"Writing Effective Specific Aims"
This session provides insight into the most important section for the development of a NIH grant application, elements of a strong Specific Aims section.
Past Offering: November 16, 2018
Materials:
Research Team Management Seminar Series
This series covers skills essential for recruiting and managing an effective and synergistic research team. Topics covered include: principles behind staffing your research team, communication, conflict resolution and performance appraisals, research compliance, effective time management, patents, licensing, and startups at Columbia.
"Assembling and Managing a Successful Team: What to Look for and What to Avoid"
This brown bag session provides an overview of the fundamentals of putting together an effective and collaborative research team. Participants learn the principles of recruiting, screening and evaluating research staff applicants. Emphasis is placed on assembling effective approaches to maximize synergy between team members, including what to look for in staff to promote team cohesiveness.
Past Offering: November 20, 2019
Materials:
Managing Research Teams Toolkit
“Building a Productive Learning Environment for Your Lab/ Research Team”
This session provides an overview of the fundamentals of building a healthy and productive learning environment for your lab or research team. Participants learn best practices for giving feedback and aligning expectations in their team.
Past Offering: June 5, 2019
Materials:
Collaboration and Team Science Filed Guide
Compact Between Biomedical Graduate Students and Their Research Advisors
Compact Between Postdoctoral Appointees and Their Mentors
Quick Tips for Building a Productive Learning Environment
Managing Research Teams Toolkit
"Hiring Your Laboratory/ Research Team: What You Need to Know About Columbia Specific Policies and Procedures"
This workshop provides faculty with the basic principles and Columbia University processes for staffing a laboratory. Columbia University hiring processes, resources, categories of employees and supervisory rules evaluating applicants, essentials for interviewing applicants, and making the offer are also covered.
Past Offering: December 14, 2015
Materials:
Visa Sponsorship at CUIMC
Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
"Managing Your Laboratory/ Research Team: Communication, Conflict Resolution, Performance Appraisals, and High Risk HR Situations"
A continuation of "Managing Your Laboratory/ Research Team", this session covers the essentials of managing a team. Basic principles for providing constructive feedback, aligning expectations and managing conflict are provided. This session also covers the processes required for asking someone to leave (to include support staff and union employees).
Past Offering: January 27, 2016
"Optimizing Productivity from the Lab Team"
Building an efficient and productive team is essential to the success of lab research. This session provides strategies to maximize team performance. Topics from picking and identifying the perfect candidate for a balanced and cohesive lab team to project management and decision making are covered.
Past Offering: March 18, 2016
"Rigor, Reproducibility and Research Compliance: What You Must Know"
This workshop covers NIH's new rigor and reproducibility requirements and key research compliance requirements at Columbia University. It helps attendees plan proposal writing, avoid delays and meet key requirements through a review of the new NIH requirements, essential research compliance policies, resources and training. It also includes an overview of the policies and protocols related to conducting research on animals (IACUC) and human subjects or tissues (IRB).
Past Offering: May 6, 2016
Materials:
IACUC (Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee- uni username and password needed)
Quick Guides to Research Compliance and Sponsored Project Handbooks
ReaDi Program
"Patents, Licensing, and Startups at Columbia"
This session introduces faculty to the Columbia Technology Ventures, and provides an overview of the processes for invention reporting, patenting, licensing, entrepreneurship, technology acceleration, material transfers and other resources available to Columbia researchers. This session also covers the experiences of Columbia and our peer institutions in getting promising research out of the lab and into the market nationwide.
Past Offering: December 8, 2016
Materials:
Technology Ventures Website
Area of Focus Development Series
"Career Success Strategies for Investigators"
This professional development series helps attendees understand approaches to advancement in the three areas of focus at CUIMC. Sessions review the definition of the specific focus area and the requirements for promotion in these focus areas. Strategies for creating and expanding a scholarly portfolio for each area of focus are discussed.
Past Offering: February 19, 2014
Materials:
CUIMC CV Format
Resources for Investigators
Funding and Grantsmanship Courses
These courses cover funding and grantsmanship for students, post-doctoral scientists, clinical fellows, new investigators, faculty and administrators.
"How to Write”
This session covers proper grammar and composition, and includes a critical review of selected writing pieces.
Past Offering: April 3, 2014
"Practice of Seeking Grant Support: Tips from Experienced Researchers at Columbia"
Past Offerings: March 27, 2014
"Experiences of a Peer Reviewer and Critical Review of a Sample Grant Application"
Past Offering: March 13, 2014
"Planning and Organizing a Research Proposal: NIH R01 Application Used as a Reference"
Past Offering: February 20, 2014
"Types of Support and Review Processes for Research and Training Activities: Voluntary Health Organizations, Foundations, Industry, Clinical Trials and Development"
"Identifying Sources of Funding"
Past Offering: February 13, 2014
"Types of Support and Review Processes for Research and Training Activities: Government Agencies and Career Development Activities"
Past Offering: February 6, 2014
Writing Specific Aims
The most vital section of any NIH grant application is the Specific Aims section. This section is the master plan and central focus of an NIH research grant and is a key part that all reviewers read. This workshop provides insight into the elements of an effective and strong Specific Aims section.
Past Offering: November 7, 2019
Materials:
Why Academics Have a Hard Time Writing Good Grant Proposals
Clinical Care/Applied Public Health
Area of Focus Development Series
"Career Success Strategies for Applied Healthcare/Public Health Practitioners"
This professional development series helps attendees understand approaches to advancement in the three areas of focus at CUIMC. Sessions review the definition of the specific focus area and the requirements for promotion in these focus areas. Strategies for creating and expanding a scholarly portfolio for each area of focus are discussed.
Past Offering: March 4, 2014
Faculty Development Series
"Success in the New Academic Tracks"
Session 1: Applied Healthcare and Public Health Sciences Focus
This brownbag session is devoted to the Applied Healthcare and Public Health Sciences Focus of the new "At CUMC" academic title and covers the following topics:
- Review of the specific description, scholarship and evaluation metrics for this area of focus of the new “at CUMC” faculty titles
- Overview of how faculty can organize their career paths for success
Past Offering: April 2, 2013