Core Leadership Competencies
Research
Effectively foster institutional and faculty research aspirations and accomplishments
Attributes
- Establish a culture that encourages faculty toward clinical, discovery, and outcomes research.
- Pursue a diverse research portfolio supported by external faculty funding
- Establish institutional initial and “bridging” support programs for faculty research.
- Support successful mentorship of early investigators.
- Establish a culture that recognizes scholarly contributions and their impact on child health
- Encourage and support participation in regional and national collaborative trials and outcomes studies.
- Quantify and document research productivity and trends annually.
- Generate shared facility and professional expertise to support research with information technology, biostatistics, epidemiology, and research nurse and assistant personnel.
Assessment Questions
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Have you completed a research strategic plan?
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What are your program’s research goals?
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Describe your program’s research support portfolio and your program’s research productivity as measured against the program’s research goals.
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Do you provide ongoing grant support for your faculty?
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Can you describe your most successful research mentees?
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Describe the national and regional research collaboratives in which your program participates. If none, which collaboratives are your best opportunity for advancing research in your program?
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How do you encourage team science?
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How have you incorporated DEI or health inequities in your research programs?
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What shared facility and personnel support research at your institution?
FAQ
What measures of research productivity should we use?
Answer: Number and impact factors of publications and total and federal research funding per year.
What percent of faculty research time should be funder?
Answer: Funding should be for about 70% of research time and cost.
What percent effort for mentorship is reasonable?
Answer: This is highly variable and dependent upon faculty position, but 5-10% is reasonable.
How long should bridge funding be provided?
Answer: 12-18 months with a requirement for submission of multiple grant applications.
How do we initite participation in research collaboratives?
Answer: Subspecialists and division directors can provide lists of such collaboratives and evaluate the benefits of participation.
Pediatric Leadership Insight
Additional Resources
- Cheng TL, Goodman E, et al. Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status in Research on Child Health. Pediatrics (2015) 135 (1): e225–e237. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2014-3109.
- Gitterman DO, Langford, WS, Hay, WW. The Frqgile Stqte of NIH Pediatric Research Portfolio. JAMA Pediatrics 172:287-293, 2018.
- Good M, McElroy SJ, Berger JN, Wynn JL. Name and characteristics of National Institutes of Health R01-funded pediatric physician-scientists: hope and challenges for the vanishing pediatric physician-scientists. JAMA Pediatr. 172:297-299, 2018. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2017.4947