Junior Faculty

Ob Gyn & RS's Faculty Development Program was launched in 2024 to promote the career development of our faculty, especially new and junior (all Assistant and early Associate Professor) faculty. This new program offers a presentation series related to topics of interest (education, giving & receiving feedback, financial planning, promotions & advancement, and more) as well as workshops for skill building in areas like CVs/Advance.

The program focuses on the onboarding experience of our new and early career faculty, partnering with Divisions, the Faculty Mentoring program, and our Faculty Wellbeing leads to improve the experience of connection and support during the first years as a faculty member in the department. The program will be hosting a new faculty Happy Hour event this fall for our newest members to meet and build community while meeting some key leaders in the department. We will also be reaching out to faculty hired in recent years to learn more about their experiences and how to improve our systems and career development opportunities.

View recordings of Faculty Development presentations: watch the recordings hereexternal site (opens in a new window)

Ob Gyn & RS's Mentoring Program is designed to help develop the scientific, clinical and educational career goals of junior (all Assistant and early Associate Professor) faculty, non-faculty academic staff and researchers. It emphasizes one-on-one interactions between well-established departmental faculty mentors with more junior members of the department. Mentors from outside of the department, as part of a mentorship team, are also encouraged in order to encourage an interdisciplinary approach to enhance career objectives, academic advancement and job satisfaction. The Mentoring Program believes in the value of a professional mentor who might not share the same academic area of interest, but can help the mentee to navigate professional development at UCSF, and that mentorship should be a mentee-led endeavor.

Each new faculty and non-faculty academic member shall have six-months from the time of appointment to identify a primary faculty mentor. The department’s mentoring program co-directors, Drs. Sindy Mellonexternal site (opens in a new window) (Center for Reproductive Sciences) and Craig Cohenexternal site (opens in a new window) (Zuckerberg San Francisco General Division, and Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health) are available to provide assistance to network, and help identify potential mentors. The co-directors are supported by Hilary Bunlertexternal site (opens in a new window). We expect that mentees will meet with their mentors at least three times per year, though encourage more frequent planned encounters including the annual meeting with the Chair.

The Mentoring Program periodically conducts workshops or partners with other department leaders, like the VC for Research or the VCs for Opportunity, to provide programming of interest.  Based on the results of a mentoring questionnaire completed in March 2020, workshops have focused on fundraising, requirements for career advancement, leadership training, tools to enhance communication, etc. The Mentoring Program will also hold rapid-fire meeting the mentor sessions for persons newly recruited to the department to aid in selecting a mentor.

Mentoring Resources

UCSF Faculty Mentoring Program 

• https://academicaffairs.ucsf.edu/ccfl/faculty_mentoring_program_resources.phpexternal site (opens in a new window)
• https://academicaffairs.ucsf.edu/ccfl/faculty_mentoring_program_about.phpexternal site (opens in a new window)

CTSI Mentoring Training Program: 

• https://accelerate.ucsf.edu/training/mtpexternal site (opens in a new window)

Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators 

• https://meded.ucsf.edu/haile-t-debas-academy-medical-educatorsexternal site (opens in a new window)