Weekly Links
January 19-23, 2009

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IN THE NEWS:

Faculty Research Awards in Women’s Health
The WHCoE Faculty Research Awards in Women’s Health are designed to reward and encourage the continued pursuit of excellence in women’s health research at Wake Forest University Health Sciences (WFUHS).
Award Criteria
Two awards will be given to eligible faculty applicants.
1.  New Investigator award will be presented to a faculty member who is early in his or her career and is conducting women’s health research in basic or clinical science at WFUHS for at least the past 3 years.  “New Investigator” is defined as a faculty member at the assistant professor level, regardless of time in rank.
2.  Mid-Career Investigator award will be presented to a faculty member who is independently conducting women’s health research in basic or clinical science at WFUHS for at least the past 3 years.  “Mid-career Investigator” is defined as faculty at the associate professor level, regardless of time in rank. 
For more information, please review the attached flier.

Medical School Deans' Perceptions of Organizational Climate: Useful Indicators for Advancement of Women Faculty and Evaluation of a Leadership Program's Impact
Dannels, Sharon PhD; McLaughlin, Jean MA; Gleason, Katharine A. MPH; McDade, Sharon A. EdD; Richman, Rosalyn MA; Morahan, Page S. PhD
Academic Medicine. 84(1):67-79, January 2009.
In 2006, the authors surveyed medical school deans at accredited institutions in the U.S. and Canada regarding organizational climate for faculty, policies affecting faculty, methods used by deans to develop faculty leadership, and the perceived impact of the ELAM Program.  The study is unique in that it focuses on the perceptions of deans, important opinion and policy leaders, rather than faculty.  The authors found that deans perceive the organizational climate for women to be improving although they also believe that interventions continue to be needed.  The study also determined that women deans seem to be more proactive in the use of specific leadership development methods than their male counterparts.  Finally, deans reported a perception that the ELAM program had a positive impact on both their schools and on individual ELAM alumnae.

Willing, Ready, and Able? How We Must Exercise Leadership for Needed Change in Dental Education.  Peter A. Cohen and Lisa A. Tedesco. J Dent Educ. 2009;73 3-11.

http://www.jdentaled.org/cgi/content/abstract/73/1/3?etoc

Organizational Climate and Family Life: How These Factors Affect the Status of Women Faculty at One Medical School: Shollen, S Lynn MS; Bland, Carole J. PhD; Finstad, Deborah A.; Taylor, Anne L. MD. Academic Medicine. 84(1):87-94, January 2009.

Expanding a college’s research enterprise comes at a high price, and don’t count on grants to cover it, a new paper in Academic Medicine asserts.

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/01/07/rochester

Balancing Life and Science 
How four successful scientists find time for their other passions, and why it's good for their science.

Don't Fight to be Cited
Forget Science and Cell - submit your papers to the journals read by your grant reviewers.

Call for Abstracts and Applications:
The George Washington Institute for Spirituality and Health is seeking proposals to participate "in a groundbreaking project that hopes to improve education on the important topic of Spirituality and Health. The goal of the project is to develop competencies and methodology for evaluating spirituality and health programs in medical schools nationwide through a consensus conference and then pilot research projects." According to Christina M. Puchalski, M.D., FACP, Executive Director of the program, "While many medical schools include spirituality in their curricula, there is a general lack of consensus on a uniform set of competencies and methods of evaluation. The George Washington University Institute on Spirituality and Health (GWish), with funding from the FISH foundation, has undertaken this project in order to, bring together stakeholders to develop a national methodology to evaluate spirituality and health courses, with the goal of collecting comparative, quality data that will be used to formulate best practices and content guidelines for spirituality-related courses in medical school curricula, as well as student competencies. Medical schools selected to participate will receive $20,000 stipend to cover travel expenses for up to 4 members to the conference, as well as expenses related to conducting a pilot study at your school, if selected. We anticipate funding six research proposals for this two-year project."  http://www.gwumc.edu/gwish/education/nationalcompetencies.cfm

Position Announcements from ELAM

Chief, Dept of Medicine – Sinai Hospital of Baltimore

Chair, Dept of Medicine – Duke U SOM

Chair, Dept of Psychiatry – Duke U SOM

Chair, Dept of Radiology – Duke U SOM

Director, Cancer Center of Excellence – U Massachusetts Medical Center

Senior Vice President for Quality and Medical Affairs – Summa Health System (OH)

President – U Texas Health

Various – Indiana U SOM

·         Chair, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation