Guides: Penn Vet Professional Development: Faculty & staff overview

Staff development

Penn GSE Health Professions Education Certificate Program
The Health Professions Education certificate is an accelerated, interprofessional program designed for clinical faculty involved in a health profession education field such as nursing, medical education, pharmacy, allied health, veterinarian, etc.
Penn Knowledgelink online training modules
Staff are assigned required modules and can opt to take additional training. Topics include: Administrative Applications, Animal Care and Use, Applications and Technology, Compliance, Financial, Health and Safety, Human Resources, Human Subject Protections, New Employee/Staff Training, Professional Development, Research, and Sponsored Projects Administration
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Topics: Administrative Applications (e.g. ATLAS), Animal Care and Use (IACUC), Applications and Technology (e.g. FAST, data warehouse), Compliance (e.g. HIPAA), Health and Safety (e.g. Bloodborne pathogens, radiation safety), Human Resources (e.g. employee relations, new employee/staff training),
Penn Human Resources training
Wide variety of career-development and skills-improvement resources to advance yourself personally and professionally. On-site, online and customized training. Free or low cost. Calendar .
ISC Technology Training Services
Technology Training Services provides fee-based computer training on common desktop computer application in use today. Courses can be taken both on Penn's campus at our centrally located computer training lab, or off-campus at a number of locations in downtown Philadelphia and the suburbs.
Special training for IT professionals
ITS works with companies and consultants to bring IT training for computing professionals to campus.
UPenn technology special interest groups
Interest groups offer regular meetings and forums for instructional and mobile technology and other computing interests.

Leadership Development

Penn Provost's Faculty Leadership Development
Workshops for department chairs, associate deans, and faculty leaders. Also provides partial support for the HERS program.

Faculty & Staff

Global Policy Course Enrichment Grants
These grants can be used for many different types of engagements, including those hosted virtually. The program supports Global Policy Course Enrichment Grants that help Penn faculty make a course more policy-relevant by supporting the design of a new course, curricular redesign of an existing course, guest speakers from relevant policy communities, the development of policy-oriented case studies, or other creative connections with the policy world.
PennVet Annual Conference
Penn Vet's annual continuing education program and one of the largest gatherings of veterinary colleagues, alumni, friends and clients in the Philadelphia region. Free for Penn Vet staff and students.
UPenn PSOM Advance Professional Development
Perelman School of Medicine's Advance faculty professional development program is an institutional mentoring program designed to mentor faculty in: Attaining Teaching Excellence, Career Development and Achievement, Leadership and Management, Research, Scientific Writing, and Technology. Open to Penn Vet faculty and staff. Course calendar.
UPenn Center for Teaching and Learning
Faculty and instructors at all levels can participate in CTL’s programs, including teaching workshops, discussions and individual observations and consultations.
UPenn PSOM medical education journal club
Monthly interdisciplinary discussion of recent articles on innovation in health sciences education. Remote access available.
Faculty Recruitment training
Online guides for search committtee training, recruitment training, faculty search system training
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Powerpoint slides and Knowledgelink courses on best practices for recruitment, ranking candidates, etc.
Penn CTL Seminars
Faculty groups that meet monthly through the academic year to explore particular teaching approaches and questions. Seminar discussions offer faculty the chance to explore topics by learning from colleagues' experiences.
University Research Foundation
The Research support program will provide awards for both research grants and conference support grants.
AVMA Veterinary Educator Professional Development Grant
This grant provides between $500 and $1,000 in funding for on-site or virtual professional development
for veterinarians and veterinary staff who have teaching contact hours with veterinary students at the Colleges of Veterinary Medicine represented in the Student AVMA House of Delegates.
Faculty Senate Seminar Series
A venue in which Penn faculty questions and concerns can be voiced and addressed to the Tri-Chairs of the Faculty Senate and University leaders.

Faculty Advancement Network (FAN) A consortium of national research universities collaborating to advance inclusive excellence in the American professoriate.

UPenn Certificate and Degree Programs and Courses

Tuition benefits are available for faculty and staff.

Upenn clinical research and public health training options
Interactive site identifies Penn courses, certificate programs and degree programs of interest to clinicians and scientists in clinical research, bioethics, biostatistics and/or public health.
UPenn Med Ed
Penn's Graduate School of Education and Perelman School of Medicine Masters program to enhance teaching skills of those teaching clinicians.
UPenn Master of Science in Translational Research Degree Program
in-depth instruction in the fundamental skills, methodology and principles necessary to become a well trained translational investigator
Clinical Research Certificate Program
This certificate program is designed for clinicians and clinical research project managers without clinical research training to provide a solid basis for proposal development and research collaboration.
UPenn Responsible Conduct of Research Training Course
Courses fulfill the RCR requirement for students and postdoctoral fellows on NSF grants, and may be taken in partial fulfillment of the NIH requirement.
Upenn Masters of Biomedical Informatics
Penn's Institute for Biomedical Informatics' two-year, in-person program is designed to help practicing clinicians become biomedical informaticians proficient in informatics methods and clinical applications
Penn CHIPS certificate and Master in Healthcare Quality and Safety
Certificate and Master in Healthcare Quality and Safety (MHQS) programs are offered to faculty within the Perelman School of Medicine, post-graduate fellows within graduate medical education training programs at Penn and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, nurses, advanced practice providers, and other health care professionals within the Penn/CHOP community that seek formal knowledge and skills in quality improvement and patient safety.

Penn Calendars

Most of these opportunities are open to anyone in the Penn community.

Penn PSOM Research Calendar
Use the pulldown to filter by different research groups and centers to find other Penn groups that share your interests. Export to ics to include in your own calendar
Penn Libraries/Weigle Information Commons Workshop Calendar
Free research and technology workshops open to everyone at Penn.
Penn Human Resources Training Calendar
Free or small-fee based sessions for staff. Also Quality of Worklife sessions
Penn Graduate Student Center Calendar
Workshops for students on writing, grants, etc.
Penn Events Calendar
General calendar of Penn events including seminars and some workshops
Center for Public Health Initiatives
CPHI calendar includes courses and talks
Center for Public Health Seminar Series
Live seminars can be registered for, and previous seminars can be streamed on demand

Campaign for Community Grants

The Office of the Provost is accepting applications for grants through the Campaign for Community
The Campaign for Community aims to strengthen our Penn community by finding ways to discuss and understand key issues that may appear to be difficult or intractable.

Proposals should help achieve the Campaign's key goals:

To promote understanding of and respect for multiple points of view on important topics related to the University community
To encourage dialogue and discussion among members of the community about issues with the potential for difference and disagreement
To create opportunities for all members of the University’s community to participate in conversations about important topics

As of June 2020, proposals are now being accepted for projects and conversations on the following three themes:

Projects and conversations about racial justice within the Penn community
Projects and conversations about racial justice between members of the Penn community and members of our Philadelphia community
Projects and conversations about racial justice by members of the Penn community in their own home communities, including students at home over the summer

Commercial & external services

AVMA My Veterinary Life
Professional development and wellness site for students and new professionals
Veterinary Distance Courses (IVIS)
International Veterinary Information Service (IVIS) maintains a list of international online veterinary training for veterinarians, veterinary students, technicians and animal health professionals.
VetFolio
Career and financial planning, professional development, client communication. Student membership sponsored by Hills for 3 years post-graduation. Free to vet school faculty, housestaff and students.
VIN (Veterinary Information Network)
Veterinarian forums, Getting Through the Day and Getting Through the Night (free CE classes for new graduates). Free to vet school faculty and students.
VETVANCE
Zoetis-sponsored professional development and networking site for veterinary students and recent graduates. Job search, financial management and business skills