title: Acquiring professional academic skills.
abstract: Successful family medicine faculty are proficient at the skills of the profession, ie, teaching, research, writing, and management. However, possessing these skills is not sufficient for building a successful academic career in family medicine. Successful faculty are also adept at learning, conforming to, and taking advantage of the norms, expectations, and reward structures of the profession. The addition of a conscious, systematic faculty development approach can improve the process and success of faculty learning these skills. Methods for teaching these skills to faculty are reviewed.
authors.affiliation: University of Southern California School of Medicine, Division of Medical Education, Los Angeles 90033, USA.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Hitchcock
authors.forename: F P
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: Hekelman
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Monteiro
authors.forename: C W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Snyder
mesh_terms: D002322:Career Mobility; D003479:Curriculum; D004493:Education; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male