Pathology Faculty Mentorship

For Educators: Building a Strong Teaching Portfolio

The AME Mentoring committee provides services to assist both tenure stream and non-tenure stream junior faculty, including investigators and clinician educators, through the promotion process:

  1. To provide feedback and advice to junior faculty in building the Teaching portfolio for promotional consideration. We aim to particularly assist candidates who are within two years of expected promotion, or who may have had difficulty at a promotion step due to insufficient teaching. We provide constructive feedback and advice from AME members.
  2. To provide confidential assistance to Chairs and Division Chiefs within the School of Medicine in evaluating the teaching portfolios of their faculty, particularly those leaders in need of experience in this matter. We can provide suggestions to improve the general teaching plans for their faculty, with faculty promotion being the ultimate goal.
  3. Upon request, to work with teaching faculty to improve their teaching evaluation, particularly when evaluations are poor, rated inadequate or in need of improvement. If requested, we can even provide observation during their actual teaching presentations in any settings (lecture, PBL etc.) and give constructive feedback on teaching styles.
  4. The committee is willing to provide feedback on CV building for promotional consideration, and suggest areas that could need improvement or strengthening. Several on our committee have been members of the standing tenured and non-tenured promotion committees. This help is particularly aimed at faculty who desire a confidential second opinion.

The AME mentoring committee has three Co-Chairs and 13 additional faculty, both clinicians and research, who are all AME members at associate or full professor level that are willing to help in mentoring junior colleagues. Please contact the chairs for assistance.