The Academic Catalyst Group

A Tactical Framework for Working Groups to Enhance Clinician-Educator Academic Career Development

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ID21613664
AuthorsShannon K Martin (0000-0002-7431-4956, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois S.K. Martin is associate professor, corresponding author), Joshua Allen-Dicker (Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, and associate chief quality officer, Department of Quality and Patient Safety, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York J. Allen-Dicker is assistant professor of clinical medicine, ; [email protected]), Joshua Allen‐Dicker (0000-0003-3831-1050, Cornell University), Daniel N Ricotta (0000-0002-6851-2059, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts D.N. Ricotta is associate professor, ; [email protected]), Brian Kwan (0000-0002-5835-0631, University of San Diego), Brian K Kwan (Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California B.K. Kwan is clinical professor, ; [email protected])
Year2025
Volume100
Issue1
Pages7-11
Publication date2025-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAcademic Medicine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1040-2446 • E-ISSN: 1938-808X
PublisherOxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1097/acm.0000000000005835
PMID39083625
OpenAlexW4401162853
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited49

Working groups have tremendous potential to contribute to the academic career development of early-career clinician-educators. These individuals may find themselves engaged in many different working spaces, including working groups or committees such as those found within specialty societies or professional organizations. Such working groups may be underrecognized opportunities for academic skill building and professional growth because they are often characterized as primarily service-oriented, citizenship, or administrative work. Working groups can use their natural cross-institutional collaborations for mentorship and externalization—2 key building blocks for academic success that frequently represent challenges for early-career clinician-educators. In this article, the authors review common challenges that early-career clinician-educators may encounter during their academic development and propose a 3-step tactical framework, the academic catalyst group, that working group leaders can apply to groups to purposefully enhance professional development for clinician-educators. The framework urges working group leaders and members to conceptualize and develop academic catalyst groups as communities of practice by (1) assembling with intention, (2) mining the mission, and (3) finding an easy win. This framework can inspire working group leaders to align their work with academic career development and ultimately foster career growth for all group members

Career development · Externalization · Medical education · Mentorship · Pedagogy · Political science · Professional development · Public relations · Specialty · Working group · Diversity and Career in Medicine · Engineering · Health and Medical Research Impacts · Innovations in Medical Education · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology

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