- Accommodating Employees with (Invisible) Disabilities
61 million people in the US—one in four—have a disability. Beyond stereotypes, “disability” can include conditions that can’t be observed directly. Consider these examples:
A staff member with depression is struggling to mobilize in the mornings and get to work by 8:00.
A...
- Not that Kind of Attendee: Tales of Conference Attendance by Trainees
In my last post, I talked about some of the considerations I make when considering which conferences to attend. In this post, I will outline how we pick conference to attend for trainees. As always these days, n=me, and this time, my trainees.
The disclaimer: I am in my third ye...
- Your Message in the Media
You’ve been contacted to talk about your recent publication or to discuss research by another team. Here's how to prepare.
Working with print, broadcast, and online media reporters requires powerful control of your message – meaning you must plan a clear and focused commun...
- Discover What’s Getting Funded with NIH Matchmaker
To compete well for grants, you need to know what’s getting funded. Enter NIH Matchmaker. The service takes text about your science and shows you the projects that are most like yours. Reading the abstracts yields insight into the kinds of aims reviewers find attractive, a...
- One-Minute Writing Tuneup: Don’t Dangle Your Modifiers Off a Cliff
Modifiers add description, context, and pizzaz to nouns, verbs, and other parts of a sentence. As well as the adjectives and adverbs you're probably familiar with, verbal phrases function as modifiers too. Verbal phrases take a verb and make it function as a noun, adjective, or a...
- Strong Performance
Mike Boyle is a legendary strength and conditioning coach whose athlete clients include the US Women’s Olympic Soccer and Ice Hockey teams, Boston Bruins, Boston Breakers, and service on coaching staff for the World Series-winning Boston Red Sox. He’s the coach of coaches via his...
- Designing Your Career
This post condenses a talk by Mark Denison, MD, at a Vanderbilt Translational Bridge meeting.
For many trainees, and occasionally even the senior faculty who mentor them, career development is a black box: You put in papers, grants, teaching, research, and other career-hel...
- Using Timelines to Diagnose Problems in Career Planning
This post builds on a presentation at the 2019 CTSA Annual Meeting of Training Program Directors.
Reviewing intended career progression is a cornerstone of mentorship. Goals for milestones such as manuscript and grant submissions typically dominate discussion. Often goals are ...
- You MUST Read Dreyer’s English
If Strunk and White is a subtle and respectable Merlot, Dreyer’s English is a Cosmopolitan: light, witty, and slightly pink. Reading this style guide is like going to party with your snarky friend to critique everyone from the bar. Dreyer makes you feel like part of the in-cr...
- Not that Kind of Choice: Tales of Conference Selection
Conference season is here! My inbox is flooded with invites to the big annual meetings for my Terrible Disease of Interest and Clinical Meeting Dealing with Terrible Disease (and Other Terrible Diseases), along with dues notices. Meanwhile, colleagues are already asking about the...
