What Advice Current Pathology Chairs Seek From Former Chairs
The 2018 Association of Pathology Chairs annual meeting included a panel discussion of Association of Pathology Chairs senior fellows (former chairs of academic departments of pathology who have remained active in Association of Pathology Chairs) about the type of advice that current (sitting) patho...
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| author | David N. Bailey MD Stanley Cohen MD Avrum Gotlieb MD Mary F. Lipscomb MD Fred Sanfilippo MD, PhD |
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| description | The 2018 Association of Pathology Chairs annual meeting included a panel discussion of Association of Pathology Chairs senior fellows (former chairs of academic departments of pathology who have remained active in Association of Pathology Chairs) about the type of advice that current (sitting) pathology chairs ask them. To inform the panel discussion, information was obtained from the senior fellows by e-mail and subsequent conference call. Of the 33 respondents, 24 (73%) had provided consultation advice (9, <5; 11, 5-10; 2, 10-20; and 2, >20). Most (>75%) of the consultations were provided face-to-face and outside the framework of Association of Pathology Chairs, with 70% of those seeking advice being well known by the consultant(s). Of the senior fellows providing advice, 71% had themselves sought consultation from former pathology chairs and 75% from nonpathology chairs. Modest correlation was found between the number of consultations senior fellows sought when they were chairs and the number of consultations they subsequently provided. The most frequent topics of consultation were strategic planning, balancing the missions, setting department priorities, recruitment of faculty and staff, conflict management, issues specific to new chairs, and resource (money/space) issues. Those who had provided such advice the longest and to the most people indicated that there was no significant change in the type of questions asked over time. Former department chairs can be a valuable source of counseling for current chairs, and organizations of department chairs should consider formalizing the use of these individuals as consultants to sitting chairs. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-205d4864661a45f9ad21e5a6a4bf80062023-02-02T00:47:04ZengElsevierAcademic Pathology2374-28952018-10-01510.1177/2374289518807397What Advice Current Pathology Chairs Seek From Former ChairsDavid N. Bailey MD0Stanley Cohen MD1Avrum Gotlieb MD2Mary F. Lipscomb MD3Fred Sanfilippo MD, PhD4 Department of Pathology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Department of Pathology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USAThe 2018 Association of Pathology Chairs annual meeting included a panel discussion of Association of Pathology Chairs senior fellows (former chairs of academic departments of pathology who have remained active in Association of Pathology Chairs) about the type of advice that current (sitting) pathology chairs ask them. To inform the panel discussion, information was obtained from the senior fellows by e-mail and subsequent conference call. Of the 33 respondents, 24 (73%) had provided consultation advice (9, <5; 11, 5-10; 2, 10-20; and 2, >20). Most (>75%) of the consultations were provided face-to-face and outside the framework of Association of Pathology Chairs, with 70% of those seeking advice being well known by the consultant(s). Of the senior fellows providing advice, 71% had themselves sought consultation from former pathology chairs and 75% from nonpathology chairs. Modest correlation was found between the number of consultations senior fellows sought when they were chairs and the number of consultations they subsequently provided. The most frequent topics of consultation were strategic planning, balancing the missions, setting department priorities, recruitment of faculty and staff, conflict management, issues specific to new chairs, and resource (money/space) issues. Those who had provided such advice the longest and to the most people indicated that there was no significant change in the type of questions asked over time. Former department chairs can be a valuable source of counseling for current chairs, and organizations of department chairs should consider formalizing the use of these individuals as consultants to sitting chairs.https://doi.org/10.1177/2374289518807397 |
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