Leadership through Scholarship Fellowship

The yearlong Leadership through Scholarship Fellowship offers training and mentorship for early-career and mid-career faculty with a focus on developing scholarly writing skills for academic advancement and leadership.

Early-career fellows will benefit from a robust curriculum and deep mentorship relationships to:

Develop a personalized leadership & career roadmap
Learn how to recognize, navigate, and overcome the minority tax
Create a research question tailored to their specific academic responsibilities and from topics that are important to them
Identify opportunities for scholarship both within and without their institution
Create and publish a letter to the editor as part of a small group
Write up and submit at least one manuscript with the coaching and co-authorship of faculty and peer mentors

Mid-career fellows will benefit from tailored mentorship and guidance to reach the next milestone in their careers, including:

Receive 1:1 mentorship specific to their challenges or roadblocks to promotion or leadership
Participate in a detailed CV review to determine edits for promotion
Work as a group with mentor faculty on challenges in scholarship to move forward with stuck projects
Learn how to navigate mid-career leadership challenges

Develop key scholarship writing skills.
Learn methods for researching a question and analyzing data.
Learn to assess quality of existing literature.
Learn to identify and address the disparities in your own career and the effects of the minority tax.

Benefit from coaching on how to write, present, and publish scholarly products.
Receive practical guidance on navigating promotion and tenure opportunities at your institution.
Build a personalized path to academic leadership.

Application Schedule for the Fellowship:

May: Applications are due in May
June: Program acceptance notifications sent out

Virtual Meeting Schedule for the Fellowship:

StrengthsFinders® Leadership Workshop
Regular Zoom meetings on topics led by scholar mentors (promotion and tenure, minority tax, manuscript writing, and more). Calls typically occur on the fourth Thursday of the month from 5–6:30 pm central/6–7:30 pm eastern:
- July, August, and September: The fourth Thursday of the months
- October: No call (in-person workshop)
- November: Second Thursday of the month
- December: No call
- January and February: The fourth Thursday of the months
- March: No call (in-person workshop)
- April: Second Thursday of the month

In-Person Meetings:

First Thursday and Friday in October: 2-day workshop, Leawood, KS
First Monday and Tuesday in March: 2-day workshop, Leawood, KS
Attend the STFM Annual Spring Conference

Registration Cost:

The registration fee for fellows is $1200 which includes the two in-person workshops and registration for the STFM Annual Spring Conference. Participants are responsible for paying travel expenses.

This fellowship is powered in part by the STFM Foundation.

Applications are now closed.

Applicants must:

Have a current STFM membership (if you're not a member and you're interested in the fellowship, you can join STFM online)
Document accomplishment in health disparities, social justice, or similar work with plans to continue related work after the fellowship
Demonstrate resilience through obstacles/hardships to reach current level in career
Be a faculty member at associate professor, assistant professor, or instructor rank, with 2–10 years at your current level preferred
Commit to attend monthly Zoom meetings and attend in-person meetings (all listed under the schedule tab)