Career Development

Mentorship is critical the development of academic intensivist. Whether trainees are interested in basic or clinical science, education, quality improvement or global health, forming academic connections and continued advancement are important. Continuing to engage with your mentors and Program Directors should continue throughout your training. These websites are good start to connect with similarly minded academic physicians:

• Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)
• Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society
• Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
• American Physician Scientists Association
• Pediatric Trauma Society
• American Thoracic Society
• Intensive Care Network
• Intensive Care Society
• Leadership & Engaged Learning in Organ Donation & Transplantation
• Physician Scientist Support Foundation
• Society for Pediatric Sedation
• Surviving Sepsis Campaign
• World Federation of Pediatric Intensive & Critical Societies

The goal of all clinical and academic training is to provide the clinical and academic skills for your career.

• Edge for Scholars
• OpenAcademics Resources
• How to write a compelling NIH Biosketch
• PedSCCM
• PedsJobs
• APPD
• Practicelink
• Healthcare Jobs
• Academic Jobs

Obtaining funding is a challenging and essential step for early career academics. A good place to start is at these clearing houses for grant opportunities.

Junior Faculty

Fellows and Post-Doctoral Researchers

JHU Research - Postdoctoral Funding Opportunities
Latest Postdoctoral Funding Opportunities Excel File

Specific funding opportunities include:

• NIH Loan Repayment
• NICHD
• Pediatric Critical Care and Trauma Scientist Development Program
• Health Resources in Action
• The Hartwell Foundation
• Patterson Foundation
• Howard Hughes Medical Institute
• Gilead
• Beckham Foundation
• Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
• Charles H. Hood Foundation Child Health Research Awards Program
• Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
• NIH Early Career Reviewer