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Programs > Diversity > Minority Faculty Fellowship > FY 2003 GranteesMinority Faculty Fellowship grants enable health professions training programs to to increase the number of faculty who are racial and ethnic minorities under-represented in the health professions. Grantees provide a stipend to under-represented minority faculty in an amount not exceeding 50 percent of the regular salary of a similar faculty member for no more than three years of training and an allowance for other expenses, such as travel to professional meetings and costs related to specialized training. Arizona | California | Massachusetts | South Carolina Northern
Arizona University Minority Faculty Fellowship Program Northern Arizona University’s (NAU) is a comprehensive public university that offers excellence in teaching, research, and public service. The University is classified as a Hispanic-Serving Institution and it also has one of the highest numbers of American Indian students of all colleges and universities in the United States. NAU is located adjacent to the Navajo and Apache counties; American Indians are actually the majority population. NAU exercises leadership in its commitment to diversity by recruiting students from underrepresented ethnic groups, and by providing multicultural activities and programs. Although a number of American Indian and other minority students are enrolled at NAU, the American Indian faculty members represent only two percent of the teaching faculty. NAU embraces its mission to serve rural Arizona, Native American peoples, and seeks a partnership in providing economic, cultural, and social opportunities for all citizens of the region. NAU’s College of Health Professions (CHP) pledged to move towards a faculty that is more representative of the population. The CHP prepares students to assume professional responsibilities as providers of health and human services. The CHP provides professional education in Physical Therapy, Dental Hygiene, Speech Pathology and Audiology, and Public Health. It has recruited an American Indian Fellow with a strong community service background but who lacks University teaching experience and training. NAU’s Minority Faculty Fellowship Program will include the provision of faculty mentors, regular counseling meetings with MFFP Oversight committee members, and formal training in teaching, grant writing, and conducting research and service. In addition the program will provide hands on experience and training in teaching, student advising, grant writing, and designing and conducting research, and preparing articles for publication. The Faculty Development Plan will provide specialized training workshops in classroom, Interactive Instructional Television (IITV), and Internet teaching techniques. Another important element of the program is providing service to underserved communities with links to the University. UCSF-Fresno Minority Faculty Fellowship Program UCSF-Fresno Latino Center, an entity of the UCSF School of Medicine, was established in 1996. A centerpiece of the mission of the Latino Center is to increase the number of Latino physicians in Central California to serve the growing number of Latino residents and to improve the health status of residents in the Central San Joaquin Valley, where some the state’s most impoverished and medically underserved populations reside. UCSF-Fresno has a strong commitment to recruit and train minority faculty. It also recognizes the dearth of minority faculty in Central California area and its impact locally on medical education. The proposed objectives of the UCSF-Fresno Latino Center Minority Faculty Fellowship Program include: (1) identifying and selecting a Latino health professional who has significant potential for an academic role at UCSF-Fresno; (2) Provide faculty mentors and counselors to assist the Fellow in her career development; (3) Provide the Fellow with the skills needed to secure a tenured faculty position at the UCSF School of Medicine; and (4) Assist the Fellow in providing health services to rural, underserved communities. The Latino Center Minority Faculty Fellowship Program will provide the support and resources necessary for the Fellow to develop academic skills and enhance academic career potential in five areas, including pedagogy (teaching), program administration, design and conduct of research, grant writing and writing for publications. The Fellow also will participate in activities designed to enhance community service abilities. The Latino Center Minority Faculty Fellowship Program also will develop and provide comprehensive diabetes education and health care to underserved adolescents and young adults of rural Central San Joaquin Valley. Tufts
University School of Medicine Minority Faculty Fellowship Program Tufts University School of Medicine’s Department of Family Medicine and Community Health is committed to identifying and advancing the careers of URM through the academic faculty ranks. The Department has a low number of URM faculty and most are not on a promotion track. To address this problem, the Minority Faculty Fellowship Program will open up the opportunity for the advancement of minority faculty into the university promotion system. The proposed activities of the Minority Faculty Fellowship Program will include: (1) Teaching: develop and enhance medical school curricula, teach the third and fourth year MD/MPH students practical applications of public health research methods that were learned in the first and second years, and mentor HCOP students and medical students; (2) Research: design a research project based on Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) curriculum development and enhancement work; (3) Administration: development an academic program concept for an Office of Faculty Diversity, and (4) Health Care Delivery: Continue to deliver direct patient care to under-served urban children and adolescents in the multicultural clinic at the Floating Hospital. University
of South Carolina Minority Faculty Fellowship Program The University of South Carolina School of Medicine (USCSOM) trains physicians to provide medical care to the citizens of South Carolina, a primarily rural state with significant poverty and 33 percent minority population. The USCSOM recognizes the need for a significant increase in minority faculty in the state, both to open the profession further to qualified minorities and to increase access to care among minority citizens. The Department of Family and Preventive Medicine and its family practice residency are located in a designated Health Professional Shortage Area (HPSA) for Medicaid patients in urban Richland County, SC. To increase the number of qualified, well-prepared minority faculty members, the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, USCSOM plans a Minority Faculty Fellowship Program that focuses on the following: (1) Education: Based on learner assessment of performance, the fellow will provide clinical teaching at least equal to the experienced faculty in the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine; (2) Administration: The fellow will demonstrate mastery of the formal structures, culture and relationships of academic medicine by effective performance on USCSOM and hospital committees; (3) Research/scholarship: The fellow will complete a Masters in Public Health (MPH),with a health administration major, through the fully-accredited USC School of Public Health (SPH). The fellow will prepare results from an original research project and have it accepted for either publication or presentation at a national meeting; and (4) Professional academic skills: The fellow will successfully complete training programs in the skills of understanding organizations, time management, conflict resolution, negotiation, and budget management. |
