Early Career Faculty Development Program

The Early Career Faculty Development Program (ECP) introduces faculty, in the early stages of their academic health sciences career, to the resources available on campus by focusing on an academic project that will help advance their careers. Along with seminars focused on project and academic development, participants will receive peer, senior, and project mentoring and networking. 2.5% FTE clinical effort forgiveness provided for BUMG faculty.

Program Directors: Demian Szyld, MD, EdM, Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, and Alyssa M. DiNicola.

You cannot save your application once you have started it, so please prepare your answers in advance. A Word version of the application is available here. Additionally, you can find the BU CV format here and ECP Chairs LOS Template here.

Applications are open until March 31st, 2025.

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Learning Objectives:

Develop skills to make substantial progress on an academic project and to effectively communicate project findings
Understand and develop a plan for academic advancement in one’s career path (e.g., clinician, educator, researcher,)
Develop skills to identify, effectively grow, and work with a developmental network of peer and senior mentors

Target Participants:

~20 BUMC Faculty: including clinicians (MDs, APPs, ODs, etc.), educators, and researchers from all 3 schools at BUMC
Must be faculty on the BU Medical Campus for ≥1 year, this includes BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, BU School of Public Health, & BU Goldman School of Dental Medicine
Must apply with an academic project

Commitment:

10 sessions from October to June, Mondays from 2:30-5:00pm in person
Meet with Career Mentor 3x throughout the year
Meet with Project Mentor monthly throughout the year

FY26 Dates:

October 6th, 2025
October 27th, 2025
November 17th, 2025
December 15th, 2025
January 12th, 2026
February 9th, 2026
March 9th, 2026
April 6th, 2026
May 4th, 2026
June 1st, 2026

Program Components

Current & Past Participants

Examples of Past Projects

Examples of Past Curriculum

ECP Infographic

BU intends that its facilities, programming and academic offerings will be accessible, inclusive and diverse. Your experience in this event is important to us. If you require communication access services for the deaf or hard of hearing, or require an accommodation for another reason, please contact bumcfdd@bu.edu to discuss your needs. Please see Event Accessibility for details on accommodations.

For more information about this or the program, please contact us at bumcfdd@bu.edu

If you are looking for a program with a more intensive research focus, with opportunities to develop your NIH biosketch, specific aims page, and/or research paper, please consider the Program for Early Research Career Development (PERC) directed by Drs. Karen Lasser & Manish Sagar.