(CLOSED) Macy Faculty Scholars Program

This opportunity is limited to the College of Medicine & the College of Nursing. Penn State is limited to one applicant from the College of Medicine and one from the College of Nursing.

The Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation has invited applications for the 2025 Macy Faculty Scholars Program.

In 2010, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation launched the Macy Faculty Scholars Program to develop and nurture the careers of future leaders in medical and nursing education. While the first decade of the program saw the selection of many mid-career Scholars, the Foundation has now shifted its focus to more junior faculty who have shown great promise as educators, clinicians, and role models and who are committed to careers in health professions education. The program aims to aims to identify and nurture promising early career educators in medicine and nursing, and provide Scholars with protected time, mentoring, curricular activities, and a national network of colleagues with the goal of accelerating the Scholars’ careers.

With an emphasis on mentorship and cultivating a professional network, the program will provide a national cohort of educational mentors, fellow scholars, and leaders to further enhance each new Scholar’s experience and development. The Foundation envisions that the Macy Faculty Scholars will become the drivers for change in health professions education, toward the goal of creating an educational system that better meets the health and public health needs of the diverse individuals and communities served throughout the country. The Program will help develop the next generation of national leaders in medical and nursing education by identifying outstanding educators, physicians, nurses, and role models—individuals who represent the breadth of diversity seen in learners, patient populations, and health care settings, accelerating Scholars’ careers, to turn their teaching practice into scholarship, and to help them become impactful leaders locally, nationally, and beyond.

In their proposed educational project, applicants to the program might explore many possible innovations in health professions education. The Foundation has particular interest in innovative projects that involve the learning environments where clinical care is delivered. Within these clinical learning environments, the Foundation is interested in projects that:

• Advance equity, diversity, and belonging.
• Enhance collaboration among health professionals, educators, and learners.
• Prepare future health professionals to navigate and address ethical dilemmas that arise when the principles of the health professions are in conflict with barriers imposed by the health delivery system.

Macy Faculty Scholars Informational Webinar: The Macy Foundation will hold an informational webinar on May 29, 2024, You can register here. You can also watch a recording of the May 2023 webinar with Macy President Dr. Holly J. Humphrey alongside Scholar alumni Dimitri Papanagnou, MD, MPH, and Sunny Hallowell, PhD, RN, PPCNP-BC, which includes an overview of the program, Scholar testimonials, and a live Q&A.

This is a career development award; the excellence and potential of the applicant are just as important as the project. Macy is interested in candidates for whom the program will have the maximum impact at this point in their career and who also have the greatest possibility for future impact on learners and innovation in health professions education at their home institutions and beyond.

Chosen Scholars will receive salary support of up to $100,000 per year for two years for 50% protected time to pursue a mentored educational project at the home Institution. An additional $25,000 per year for project support and professional development activities. In addition, Scholars will receive funding to participate in a Harvard Macy Institute course, for travel to the Macy Faculty Scholars Annual Meeting, and for other program related travel.

ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS

The eligible candidate must:

1. Be a benefits-eligible faculty member in a United States accredited nursing school, allopathic medical school, or osteopathic medical school. Candidates should have approximately three to eight years of faculty experience at the time of application.
2. Be a doctorally prepared faculty member in good standing at the sponsoring school.
3. Be nominated by the dean of the nursing or medical school. There can be only one nominee per nursing or medical school, and a nursing or medical school with a first-year Macy Faculty Scholar is precluded from nominating a candidate.
4. Have an educational scholarship project with the appropriate institutional support.
5. Have a faculty mentor who will advise the candidate on the candidate’s educational project and career development.
6. Have an institutional commitment for the protection of 50% of the candidate’s time.
7. Be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States or its territories.

SELECTION CRITERIA
The following factors will be considered in the selection process:

1. Evidence that the candidate is viewed by learners as an effective educator.
2. Whether the candidate is in a position to directly influence learners in the local environment.
3. Evidence of an ability to turn daily work into scholarship that has been disseminated.
4. Merit of the proposed project and the likelihood that it will influence national trends in health professions education and—ultimately—improve the health of the public.
   Note: The Foundation has a particular interest in projects that involve the clinical learning environment. Within these environments, The Foundation is interested in projects that address one or more of Macy's three priority areas.
5. Evidence of a strong mentor and of institutional support.
6. Shows potential to become a national leader in health professions education.