Full Professor Process
Faculty members at the full professor rank with an extensive history of educational activities and a minimum of three years at the College may apply for and F&J Award in the Full Professor Process. This process was developed for senior faculty members who will not be using the award as part of their promotion and tenure package. This process requires the same quantity, quality, and breadth requirements as the other categories, but the quantity of required mini-portfolio submission materials is reduced. In addition, those wishing to combine their various types of teaching activities into one portfolio may do so. Recipients of all F&J awards become members of the Academy of Distinguished Educators.
This type of mini-portfolio submission may be used to:
- Receive a Fullbright & Jaworski Award and become a member of the Academy, or
- Update Academy membership after an initial five year period following receipt of a Fullbright & Jaworski Award
The mini-portfolio accepted in this process:
- Is not acceptable as part of a tenure package;
- Is largely based on activities in the last five years;
- May include activities from previous years, but these activities are weighted less than those educational activities accomplished in the last five years.
- And used to update Academy membership will use only the activities not cited in their earlier application(s).
It is expected that senior faculty members
- Will have many more accomplishments than are necessary to qualify for the award, but
- Applicants need only present the quantity and documentation of quality and breadth of activities to meet the level of the examples in this process.
Requirements
1. A structured summary in the format of the examples.
- A list of major teaching activities for the last five years with some documentation of quality (for example a teaching award or student evaluations – see examples).
Be sure to make clear reference to the documentation in your structured summary by number or name (e.g., “Reference the Structural Summary examples for table of learner evaluations in Appendix A”; “See test score summary in Appendix B”). - Basic scientists: Descriptions of one-on one training should follow the following format:
- statement of number of trainees in training in the last five years,
- number of total trainees and documentation of accomplishments of five total (at least three within last five years) and others may be earlier.
- For current trainees, documentation would include abstracts presented, fellowships, and publications.
- For those who have completed training documentation may also include fellowships during training period, number of publications, current position, and if in academics, grants obtained. See template and example appendix for the suggested format.
- Other teaching activities
- Local and national education committee service
- Student thesis committees
- Clinical researchers: one on one mentoring can be documented in the same fashion as for basic scientists (see above)
- Clinician educators:
- Information about one-on-one mentoring of trainees should be listed as above by the basic scientists
- Include all forms of teaching (examples: at the bedside, in the O.R., CME courses, lectures -local and national, ambulatory teaching, etc.)
2. Personal Statement
A personal statement of not more one page that addresses the following questions:
- What are your educational goals for learners?
- How have you prepared yourself to meet the goals?
- What method(s) do you use to assure you are meeting these goals
- How do you share what you have learned about teaching with your peers and junior colleagues (e.g. mentoring)?
3. One Letter of Support
One letter of support from a full professor at Baylor College of Medicine concurring with the educational excellence of the applicant.
4. Table of Appendices
5. Documentation
- Organize supporting documents into clearly labeled appendicies, using the standard-setting examples as a model. This section should not exceed 25 pages (13 pages front and back) and may be as short as 2 or 3 pages in the Full Professor Process.
- If included, summarize numeric learner evaluations into tables and list only samples of illustrative written documents. Do not include copies of individual rating forms.
- Solicited letters are not a component of the full professor's application.
- The documentation you provide will enable the peer review panel to "audit" the quality information you include on your structured summary.
6. CV- in BCM format.
Structural Summary Examples
Each of these examples have been prepared using a template which you should use in your mini-portfolio.
(See a copy of this template.) You should also use in your descriptions of quantity the types of information included in the standard-setting example(s) best matched to your accomplishments.
- Example 1 - Basic scientist in the Full Professor Category predominantly focussed in mentoring
- Example 2 - Involved in lecturing and lab teaching
- Example 3 - M.D. in a clinical department at the Full Professor level primarily involved in teaching and mentoring
- Example 4 - M.D. in a clinical department at the Full Professor level involved in teaching, leadership, and development of enduring educational materials