Competencies

This is a sample list of competencies and resources for professional development that can be referenced at any career stage.

This is unpublished

new/early career faculty

General knowledge and competencies

  • Institutional orientation - DOM intranet, SOM website
    Your division or section may have its own orientation process that attends to all the necessary requirements
  • Track/pathway/division expectations - DOM intranet
  • Setting career goals/creating a career development plan  
  • Finding and cultivating a mentorship team    
  • Being a good mentee    
  • Understanding promotion criteria - DOM intranet and SOM website

Clinical skills

Research

  • Developing research skills - ITHS
  • Creating and running a research team    
  • Setting up a lab - SOM 
  • Grant writing/grantsmanship - ITHS
  • Demonstrating research productivity    
  • Research compliance - IRB, IACUC, data management
    CRBB, human subjects division, CITI training, IACUC
  • Research funding - developing and managing budgets    CRBB 
  • Research collaboration and team science    
  • Peer reviewing manuscripts and grants - ITHS
  • Developing independence as an investigator (including scientific independence and extramural funding)    

Education

Resources: CLIME, teaching scholars program, AAIM

  • Teaching in clinical settings
  • Teaching in non-clinical settings
  • Curriculum development
  • Assessing learning/trainee performance and giving feedback
  • Developing presence in educational scholarship

Preparing for promotion to associate professor

General knowledge and competencies

  • Understanding promotion process and criteria - DOM intranet, SOM website
  • Preparation of the teaching portfolio - SOM website
  • Development of regional and  national presence (involvement in professional societies, committees, scientific presentations) - SOM website

Mid-career

General knowledge and competencies

  • Local and national leadership roles    
  • Development of mentorship, sponsorship, coaching skills    ITHS, SOM, CIMER
  • Expanding involvement in professional societies    
  • Expanding national and international presence    
  • Understanding metrics/criteria for promotion to full professor - SOM, DOM intranet

Clinical skills

Research

  • Demonstrating research productivity    
  • Expanding research collaborations (including extramural) - ITHS
  • Expanding and managing the research team    
  • Sustaining independence as an investigator    

Education

Senior

General knowledge and competencies

  • Local and national leadership roles
  • Mentorship and sponsorship
  • Developing leaders
  • Succession planning
  • Transitioning out of leadership position and/or career

Any career stage

General knowledge and competencies

  • Communication skills - POD
  • Professionalism - POD
  • Well-being/prevention and mitigation of burnout, work-life integration, finding/maintaining meaning in work - SOM
  • DEI principles - OHCE, SOM
  • Negotiation skills - POD
  • Time management and organization - POD, SOM
  • Social media presence    
  • Networking    
  • Emotional intelligence/self-awareness - POD, SOM

Clinical skills

  • Electronic health record management and efficiency - Epic liaisons
  • Business and finance of health care - SOM
  • Understanding health care systems

Research

  • Scientific presentation and writing skills

Leadership skills

Resources: POD, SOM, AAIM, UW Medicine

  • Leadership styles
  • Conflict management
  • Change management
  • Strategic planning
  • Team building
  • Difficult conversations
  • How to make an ask
  • Leadership presence
  • Meeting management
  • Delegation