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Meeting Contacts: Registration:
Carlos La Torre clatorre@aamc.org
202-828-0502
Program Content:
Angela Moses amoses@aamc.org
202-862-6203 Logistics:
Meghann Shinners
mshinners@aamc.org
202-828-0047
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Minority Faculty Career Development Seminar
Jointly sponsored
by the Association of American Medical Colleges and
Harvard Medical School
Department of Continuing Education September 12-15, 2008 - The Westin
Alexandria - Alexandria Va.
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Meeting Details: | | Agenda: |
Download PDF
(13 pages)
(includes registration
and hotel Information) | |
Register Online:
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Individual Fee: $845.00
Register
Online
To obtain this fee, you must pay by credit card online. Registration
will close 9/1/08
Midnight EST. | |
Register by mail or fax: |
Registration Form
(Writable
PDF,
1 page)
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Hotel: |
Westin Alexandria
To make your hotel reservations please call 703)
253-8600. Be
sure to identify yourself with the AAMC in order to receive the
group rate. | | Room
Rate: | $179.00 Single/Double
Plus 10.05% tax
plus $1.00 per room per night
Deadline:
August
15, 2008 | The Minority Faculty Career Development
Seminar is a three-day professional Development seminar designed for junior faculty
(senior fellows, instructors, and assistant professors) who are members of underrepresented
racial and ethnic minority groups and who aspire to leadership positions in academic
medicine. Objectives
To assist participants in identifying
their professional development goals and designing a career path
To provide attendees with an understanding of the realities of advancement in
academic medicine through the exploration of the requirements for appointment,
promotion, and tenure, as well as to assist attendees in planning their own progress
through the system To assist attendees in developing key professional
competencies in academic and organizational leadership To identify
personal and professional skills that are vital to academic advancement and provide
opportunities for their development To assist participants in
identifying and coping with special challenges facing underrepresented racial
and ethnic minority faculty To provide an overview of the grant-making
process of foundations and their respective funding priorities
The present National Institutes of Health (NIH) research funding and training
opportunities for faculty To help participants expand their network
of colleagues and role models
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