Section on Early Career Physicians

Early Career Leadership Alliance (ECLA) Program

2023-2025 Early Career Faculty Application

EXTENDED Deadline: Sunday, November 19, 2023

The Section on Early Career Physicians (SOECP) is pleased to welcome early career (EC) faculty leader applications for the 2023-2025 class of the Early Career Leadership Alliance (ECLA), a 2-year training program designed to develop leaders and build a leadership community amongst early career physicians. This learning program is intended to increase the capacity of physicians who are early in their career as a means to support their career growth as leaders. In alignment with the AAP Equity Agenda, there is a hope to facilitate equity in access to AAP leadership programs especially as those underrepresented in medicine may have less access to leadership training, with an aim to diversify leadership in pediatrics. The program includes intersession webinars, conference calls, optional in-person activities, and individual leadership capstone projects with guidance from experienced AAP faculty leaders.

As an EC leader, you will serve as a faculty presenter, a faculty coach and a faculty mentor.

Faculty presenter: As an EC faculty member in the program, you will partner with a senior faculty member to develop 1-2 virtual sessions that will be presented to ECLA participants. Examples of topics presented include: graceful self-promotion, building and leading effective teams, negotiating essentials, change management, and giving/receiving effective feedback. Upon selection, your topic preferences will be gathered and pairings will be made that best align with your interests.

Coach and Mentor: Beyond your faculty teaching role, you will also serve as a mentor and coach for a specific group of program participants. You will again partner with a senior faculty member to serve as a faculty team supporting the individualized leadership development of a group of participants. Together, you will use mentorship and coaching skills to engage with your assigned participants on quarterly conference calls to advance the participants' work on their individual leadership projects and to address leadership challenges associated with this project work. You will also provide individual mentoring and coaching to the participants in your coaching group to discuss issues related to their career goals as a leader. Faculty training on coaching skills will be provided to support your own development and further ensure the success of the program.

Compensation: Faculty will be compensated $1,000 for their role in the program, broken into 2 installments of $500 per year.

If interested, please complete and submit the application below. Applicants must be an active member of the AAP for the full duration of the program.

In alignment with the AAP Equity Agenda, the SOECP is committed to celebrating the work of members from groups underrepresented in medicine. We encourage nominations for diverse candidates in terms of race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, subspecialty, practice location, and/or national origin.

Please note: The ECLA curriculum is designed to optimize participants’ education in leadership development over the two-year period. In order to provide the best experience for our participants, active engagement is expected of faculty. Therefore, faculty attendance is required at all ECLA sessions and on every webinar/conference call for your assigned group for the duration of the appointment. You are also required to hold the individual coaching conversations described above.

EXTENDED application deadline is Sunday, November 19, 2023.

Recipients will be notified the week of December 12, 2023.

APPLICANT CONTACT INFORMATION

* Denotes that the field is required.

First Name *

Last Name *

Degree/Designation (MD, DO, etc.) *

AAP ID Number *

Preferred Email Address *

Phone Number *

Preferred Pronouns

She/Her/Hers

He/Him/His

They/Their/Theirs

Prefer to self-describe

Specialty/Subspecialty

Organization/Practice Name *

From the list below, please select the years that you participated in the previous YPLA program. *

EARLY CAREER FACULTY APPLICATION

Please answer each of the following questions. Each question has a 250 word limit.

1) Describe your recent teaching responsibilities (include learner type, format, and frequency) and your experience with leadership education (e.g. experience teaching about leadership, format, and topics learned and/or taught). You are welcome to describe your teaching philosophy, highlighting how you create an engaging and interactive environment. *

0/250 words

2) What professional development opportunities have you participated in that have enhanced your skills as a teacher, mentor, coach or leader? How will participating as an early career faculty in the ECLA Program contribute to your own professional/career development? *

0/250 words

3) Briefly describe your recent mentoring responsibilities (include information about who you mentored and the format). Please include details on your approach to mentoring and how you create an environment that helps the person you are mentoring address challenges and meet their goals *

0/250 words

4) Briefly describe any experiences you have had with coaching. How do you distinguish coaching from mentoring? *

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5) Describe your experience with teaching, mentoring, or coaching people from diverse backgrounds, those who are underrepresented in medicine? What skills do you bring to help facilitate the growth and success of those from diverse backgrounds, especially if they may have a background different than yours? What would you contribute to improve equity to access in leadership development training? *

0/250 words

Please upload your CV. PDF format required. *

APPLICANT CHARACTERISTICS

This section is not shared with reviewers. You are not required to answer any of the questions below.

As part of the application process, we are collecting information to understand who our SOECP members are that are applying for leadership positions. This information will be reported back in summary form to the SOECP Executive Committee and AAP Leadership; no individual information will be identified.

In what year were you born? Please use 4-digit format (YYYY).

With what racial or cultural group(s) do you identify yourself? Select all that apply.

Which of the following is your current gender identity? Select all that apply.

Which of the following best represents how you think of yourself? Select all that apply.

5) Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) you have a disability if you have a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity. By this definition, do you have a disability?

Yes

No

6) Do you currently work part-time?

Yes

No

7) Please describe the community in which your primary practice/position is located.

City

Rural

Suburban

8) Please indicate your primary employment setting. This is the setting where you spend most of your time.

9) Where was your medical school located?

Please be sure to submit your application form, including your CV by:

11:59pm Central Time on Sunday, November 19, 2023

Questions about the ECLA Program or this application can be directed to

Elisha Ferguson (eferguson@aap.org).

Thank you!