SECTION I: CAREER PLANNING.- Career Options in Radiation Oncology.- Foundations for a Successful Career.- Approaching Your Academic Career.- Strategies for Applicants Belonging to Underrepresented Groups.- SECTION II: APPLYING TO FACULTY POSITIONS.- Informational Interviews / Interviewing for a Position.- Preparing your CV and Cover Letter.- Evaluating Your Contract/Medical Legal Considerations.- Changing Jobs.- SECTION III: EARLY CAREER DEVELOPMENT.- Identifying and utilizing mentors .- Conflict Resolution and Interpersonal Strategies.- Aligning Your Goals with Your Colleagues, Department, and Institution.- Working with Staff and Colleagues.- Becoming a Clinician: Organization, Interprofessional Considerations, Documentation, Billing, and Insurance.- Becoming an educator: giving feedback, supervising trainees, formal didactics.- Becoming a researcher: Grants & Budgets; Reviewing and Writing Papers; and the IRB.- Radiation Oncology Career development in an Academic Satellite Network.- When life happens: parental leave, part-time schedules and flexible workplace strategies.- SECTION IV: MID AND SENIOR CAREER.- Professionalism: Instincts Below the Surface and Environmental Influences.- Promotions.- Maintenance and Assessment of Skills and Knowledge Over the Career Continuum .- Networking.- Leadership versus Service: What's the Difference? Is There a Difference?.- Disease Site Leadership.- Role of the Department Chair.- Successful Strategies to Exploit the Intersection Between the Radiation Oncology Department and Cancer Center.- Business Development from Research, Entrepreneurship Within Academic Medicine.- An Approach to the Management of Selected Personnel and Ethical Problems in Academic Radiation Oncology.- Approaching strategic planning.- SECTION V: MISCELLANEOUS CONTEXT ISSUES.- Handling Burnout.- Preparing for retirement and career transitions.- Personal Finance and Work-Life Balance.- Paying it forward: being a good mentor, steward,and colleague.
