- How to Keep Your Trainee Tables So Your Grants Manager Will Love You
You may not have trainees yet, but when you do, you’ll need to start keeping track of them. At some point, you’ll be asked to serve as a mentor or otherwise be involved with an institutional training grant. NIH has specific characteristics and outcomes they want to know about y...
- A Project Management Approach That Works
Problem: A picture is worth a thousand words….
The Goal: Implement a project management strategy that allows you to easily organize and synthesize data, track progress and strategize future efforts.
Enter my strategy…the Storyboard! I admit it…I am a Storyboard junkie! ...
- Not that Kind of Applicant Review: Tales of Your Application in the Clutches of a Search Committee
After careful document preparation and job selection, you have submitted your application. It will likely be at least two months until you hear anything positive (i.e., an invitation to interview). If it is negative, you may never hear back from the search committee. I am still w...
- Watch Words: Go Slow
Go slow was the theme of a recent visit by Janice L. Gabrilove, MD. She met with K-level faculty in small groups and gave a talk to over 60 mentors, early career faculty, and postdocs at dinner as the honored guest for Visiting Scholar’s Day.
Take the more deliberate route, e...
- Three (Grant) Peeves in a Pod: Write Better
Contorted sentence structure and dense text torture reviewers.
1) Give me a break.
Try to break up sentence longer than two full lines of text or 30 words. If you already have a semicolon, you know it is two sentences!
2) Don’t bury the idea.
Unfortunately, to our det...
- Not that Kind of Job Applicant: Tales of Self-Discovery in the Job Application Process
With your application documents prepared, it is now time to start applying for your first faculty position. These are some of the resources and strategies we used to find and select job postings. Our cohort includes individuals with and without K awards who all secured tenure t...
- Not that Kind of Summer: Tales of Preparing for Academic Job Season
The time has come. Your training is nearing completion, you have discussed your career plan with your mentor, and now you must apply for your first academic faculty position. Because academic research institutions are closely tied to university and medical school calendars, they ...
- How To Survive The Interview You Didn’t Know Was Coming
Daily news reporting is a tough and thankless task. A reporter can write a well thought out, hard-hitting story on a Thursday and, when they wake up Friday morning, the page is blank again and the editor is asking "What have you done for me lately?"
Because TV stations and new...
- Not that Kind of Career Development Award: Tales of Living with the K99/R00
My previous posts have covered writing career development awards (here), tips for the K99/R00 specifically (here), and the events you await during career development award review (here). In this final post on career development awards, I will address some questions specific for t...
- Not that Kind of Grant Application: Tales of Waiting for Career Development Awards
In my last posts, I covered considerations for writing career development awards, and tips specific to the K99/R00. After submitting my application, I scoured the web for information on what to do next. Alas, more people focused on the submission rather than subsequent steps. Thi...
