Leadership through Scholarship Fellowship

The yearlong Leadership through Scholarship Fellowship offers training and mentorship for early-career and mid-career underrepresented in medicine (URM) and Asian American faculty with a focus on developing scholarly writing skills for academic advancement and leadership.

Early-career fellows will benefit from a curriculum tailored for URM faculty 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

Benefits

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 of the minority tax in your own career

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:

April: Application window opens for STFM members
May: Deadline for applications
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

Early Career In-Person Meetings:

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

Mid-Career In-Person Meetings:

First Wednesday and Thursday in March: 2-day workshop, Leawood, KS
Attend the STFM Annual Spring Conference

Early-career:

The registration fee for early-career 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.

Mid-career:

The registration fee for mid-career fellows is $800 which includes one in-person workshop 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.

Early-career applicants must be:

Current STFM members (if you're not a member and you're interested in the fellowship, you can join STFM online)
URM or Asian American faculty member at assistant professor or instructor rank, with 2–7 years at your current level preferred
Commitment to attend monthly Zoom meetings, listed under the schedule tab
Commitment to attend in-person meetings listed under the schedule tab

Mid-career applicants must be:

Current STFM members (if you're not a member and you're interested in the fellowship, you can join STFM online)
URM or Asian American faculty member at assistant or associate professor rank, with more than eight scholarly publications, three publications as lead author
Commitment to attend monthly Zoom meetings, listed under the schedule tab
Commitment to attend in-person meetings listed under the schedule tab

Applications will open in March and are due in May. Fellows will be notified of acceptance in June and start the fellowship in late July.

Email your materials to Kim Sevedge at ksevedge@stfm.org.