East/West Visiting Scholars in Pediatric Anesthesia Program (ViSiPAP): Developing tomorrow’s pediatric anesthesia leaders

• DOI: 10.1111/pan.13867
• Publication Date: 2020-04-08T11:49:38Z
• Authors: Marla B. Ferschl; Jennifer K. Lee; Justin L. Lockman; Stephanie Black; Debnath Chatterjee; Rita Agarwal; Lawrence I. Schwartz; John Fiadjoe; Eugenie Heitmiller; Bommy Hong Mershon; Nina Deutsch; John McCloskey; Andrew Infosino
• Keywords: Attrition; Promotion (chess); Faculty Development

Abstract Promoting and retaining junior faculty are major challenges for many medical schools. High clinical workloads often limit time scholarly projects academic development, especially in anesthesiology. To address this, we created the East/West Visiting Scholars Pediatric Anesthesia Program (ViSiPAP). The program's goal is to help “jumpstart” careers by providing opportunities national exposure recognition through invited lectures collaborative opportunities. ViSiPAP benefits participating scholars, home hosting anesthesia departments, pediatric fellowship training programs. By fostering a sense of well‐being inclusion community, has potential increase job satisfaction, attain promotion, reduce attrition. Faculty trainees exposed new expertise role models. Moreover, provides women underrepresented medicine faculty. This program can develop today's into tomorrow's leaders anesthesia. We advocate expanding concept other institutions medicine.