Revitalizing Mid-Career Academic Faculty in Today's Academic Medical Environment: Support Flourishing Now to Create Tomorrow's Senior Leaders

For myriad reasons, mid-career academic faculty are struggle to maintain career engagement and professional vitality. Enter the stressors of the current academic health care environment and it is a recipe for career dissatisfaction, burnout, and worsening faculty retention among a highly successful and skilled cohort of clinician-educators. In this workshop, presenters will discuss what is known about the barriers to professional vitality among mid-career academic faculty. Through a powerful self-reflection exercise and small group breakout sessions, participants will learn key strategies to support the mid-career faculty member in assessment of current career satisfaction, building a mentorship "board of directors," addressing personal and institutional resilience, and strengthening negotiation skills. This workshop will culminate in a large group discussion that will help all participants create an action plan for supporting this group of important and necessary faculty members to help program directors, clerkship directors, chairs and DIOs create the senior academic medical leaders of tomorrow.