a. Department chair facilitates identification of mentor(s).

b. Mentor acquaints mentee with philosophy / documents:

i. "Mentors and Mentees" by G. Cocolas, Am. J. Pharm. Ed. 62: 227 (1998).
ii. "Mentoring: On Having One and Being One" by B. Hoffman, AACP Academic Life Series, 1996.
iii. "Pharmacy Faculty Mentoring Programs" by A. Wutoh et al., J. Pharm. Ed. 8: 61 (2000).
iv. "Faculty Mentoring Program", Howard University.
v. "MedMentor Faculty Liaison": MUSC Library support for preceptors -Ms. Miriam Tomblin.
vi. "You've Got Mentoring" by B. L. Morgan and W. Cerbin, AAHE Bulletin, Nov 2001.

a. Human Resources - General employee aspects: 
Ms. Holly Maben (Ph. 2-4675) 
Faculty specific: Ms. Dana Tumbleston 

b. Academic appointments:

i. Faculty Senate / Faculty Handbook - see musc.edu/facsen

ii. "COP Tenure & Promotion (APT) Guidelines and timetable".

· College 7-year imperative for promotion to associate professor.

· Documentation of teaching effectiveness, e.g., Personalized Assessment of Course Effectiveness (PACE) evaluations (see "A User's Guide to PACE"; " MUSC Guidelines for Course and Instructor Evaluations"; and Sec.3 g). Use of PACE is strongly recommended by MUSC. However, other teaching evaluation instruments may be used if coordinated through the Office of Institutional Research and Assessment; see "PACE Administration" memo from Dr. Ray Greenberg. Note: 20 or more student PACE evaluations in a course are required for statistical significance; A minimum of 3 student contact hours are required for valid PACE evaluation in team taught courses; The student comment section results are made available only to the individual instructor and course coordinator. These may be used to document teaching effectiveness only at the individual's discretion. Only the instructor's total PACE score (based on Likert scale) is forwarded to dept chair and dean. Also see "Student Evaluations: Widespread and Controversial", by R. Lewis. 

· Publication expectations / considerations- #, role in authorship, journal impact factor (see "SCI Journal Citation Reports"), peer reviewed?, primary literature vs reviewed literature. Note: Criteria for coauthorship are important to establish whenever initiating collaborative scholarly activities. For example, from J Am Acad Child Adol Psychiatry: "Base authorship credit only on substantial contributions to (a) conception and design or analysis and interpretation of data; (b) drafting the article or revising it critically for important intellectual content; and (c) final approval of the version to be published. Participation solely in the acquisition of funding or the collection of data does not justify authorship. General supervision of the research group is not sufficient for authorship. Each author is required to have participated sufficiently in the work to take public responsibility for the content."

· College required APT outside letters (> 3); at least 2 impartial.

· University Tenure Committee requires - (1) CV, (2) 3+ outside letters, and (3) documentation of teaching experience and effectiveness, see "Tenure Recommendations and check list" memo from Dr. Ray Greenberg.

iii. Annual and 3 year evaluations; see Faculty Handbook, Sec. 6:

· Individualized job description reviewed: % teaching/ research / service. See associated documents:
· "Faculty Planning Stage Performance Evaluation: Goals".
· "Faculty Performance Evaluation".
· "Clinical Peer Evaluation".
· "Annual Activity Report".
· "Quarterly Activity Report".
· "Evaluation of Community-Based Preceptor".
· Merit based raises; see "Policy for Faculty Raises".

iv. Hospital co-funding contract.

v. "Academic Compliance Program", COP liaison Dr. Don Weist; MUSC Officer Dr. Ed Conradi - matters of professional conduct.

· "External Activities Reporting Form."

· Consulting - Currently under ad hoc committee review, see (1) "Consulting Arrangements"; (2) "Policy Statement Faculty Extracurricular Compensation"; (3) "Compensation to Faculty for Work Outside Normal Job Description"; (4) "Faculty Supplement Reporting Requirements"; (5) "Ethics, Governmental Accountability and Campaign Reform of 1991."

· Dual employment - see "Overtime Rates for Nonexempt Employees in Dual Employment Status" & "Policy 38".

· Conflict of interest  and "Financial Disclosure" memo and Faculty Handbook.

· Conflict of commitment; obligation of full disclosure.

c. Research - see research.musc.edu & Office of Research Integrity:

i. Institutional Review Board for Human Research (IRB), Director Dr. Ed Conradi - "Research on Human Specimens" by NIH. Note: Mandatory "Miami" tutorial.

ii. General Clinical Research Center (clinical study support), Director Dr. Lyndon Key. 

iii. University Research Resource Facility; Chair Dr. Ken Roozen. The following are available to all faculty and receive MUSC funding for this purpose:

 
· Bimolecular Computing
· DNA Synthesis
· Flow Cytometry
· Gene Knockout
· Mass Spectrometry
· NMR
· Protein Chemistry
· Spectrometry
· Electron Microscopy
· Others

iv. Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee; Chair Don Miller: Note "Mandatory training requirements" - training tutorials.

v. Controlled substances regulations: 
See Ms. Sandy Spence for required documents.

· Internal Audit; Investigator Robert (Tom) Brown, Ph. 2-4199.
· DHEC; Inspector Susan Gagnon, Ph. 803-935-7817.
· DEA; Supervisor Rene (Cheri) Baglin, Ph. 803-253-3441.

vi. Research Integrity Committee: ethics, Chair Dr. Cynthia Karr.

vii. Institutional Biosafety committee, Biosafety Officer Dr. Michael Schmidt.

viii. Occupational Safety, Director Joe Avant: Accidents Ph. 2-3604; Hazardous waste disposal Ph. 2-3532; Environmental/Health Manager Chloe Backman Ph.2-1260.
ix. Investigator funding indirect cost return (5%) - See "IDC Distribution" policy. 
x. Investigator salary release time return (20%)- See "Salary Dollar Grant Return".

a. Web based - see Drs. John Bosso and Roger White.

b. Power point - see Dr. Debbie Carson.

c. Library - Dr. Bob Poyer, Coordinator of Services, Ph. 2-2892.

d. Xerox program - see Dr. Ron Nickel.

e. Apple Tree Society, see Dr. Kelly Ragucci

f. See "Innovations In Teaching", periodically in Am J Pharm Ed.

g. Personalized Assessment of Course Effectiveness (PACE).

i. Read "User's Guide to PACE" by Drs. G.R. Ross & Carol Lancaster- Description; Interpretation; Core items; Optional items. 

ii. Interpretation: Ms. Kristi Rodgers, Ph. 6-5043, see Dr. Jim Wynn.

iii. "Mid-Term Assessment Process".

h. Educational Testing Service: Gauging quality of tests-

· Test reliability ( lengthening improves)
· Test standard error (lengthening / error free)

a. Office of Research Development - Dr. Billy Baggett, Ph. 2-8866.

b. Office of Research and Sponsored programs - "Policies and Procedures".

c. Campus collaborations - Home page research keyword search.

d. "Research INKlings" - monthly funding resource guide from MUSC Office of Research Development.

e. University Research Committee (Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, Ph.2-3838) - Chair, Dr. Judy Dubno. See "Institutional Support for Research"; see Drs. Tom Dix, Ken Patrick, Jurgen Rohr.

i. New investigators, usually capped @ $25,000.
ii. Pilot research
iii. Central Research Facilities - new shared instruments
iv. Emergency instrument repair/replacement
v. Interim funding
vi. Resident funding - starting an academic career

f. Commission on Higher Education grants through MUSC - see Drs. Tom Dix and Jurgen Rohr.

g. "Yes Undesignated Fund" - any MUSC mission - consistent proposal

h. Student "Summer Research Fellowship" program; Chair Don Miller - see Dr. Ken Patrick.

a. MUSC grant review consultant - Dr. Diane Hatchell (Duke); see Office of Research Development.

b. Editing: Ms.Virginia Donahue, Admin. Assistant - Ph. 2-6313.

c. Writing workshop - Center for Academic Excellence; Dr.Tom Waldrep, Ph. 2-6006. 

d. "Preparing an NIH Research Grant" by Dr. Jim Norris.

e. "Writing an Article for Publication", by T.L. Herbert, MUSC Library.

a. Faculty Handbook, Sec. 11.1.

b. "Sabbatical Leaves" by R. Bennett and R. Krueger, AACP Academic Life Series.

c. Prominent administrative considerations: (1) Has faculty member arranged for lecture coverage? (2) Have clear benefits for member's professional growth, and in turn, college's programmatic development been outlined? 

8. Job satisfaction concerns integrated into annual evaluation - As revealed by above satisfaction survey.