Individual Professional Development Plan

The purpose of this template is to assist you in documenting information relevant to your career trajectory including
short, medium and long-term goals, barriers, accomplishments, and plans for acquiring the skills necessary to
achieve your career goals. The document is also useful for self-reflection and is a template meant to be a working
document, to be utilized at the discretion of the end user, and to be altered in order to meet individual needs.
Goals may be created in the categories of research and scholarly activities, teaching and mentoring activities,
clinical activities, service and citizenship activities, and leadership and management activities.

Christopher J. Bugnitz, MD

Name and degree(s)

Pediatric Cardiology Fellow

Current title

1. Description of current effort and roles within each of the following categories (please
describe institutional, regional and national roles)
Research and
scholarly activities

Teaching and
mentoring activities

-Masters Final Project Teaching medical

-Teach-Back QI
students, interns, &
Project
residents on the
-Teaching motivation cardiology service
and qualities study -Monthly resident
-Case Study
case conference
-Fellow education

Service and
citizenship activities

Clinical activities

1 month rotations in None

inpatient, outpatient,
echocardiography,
electrophysiology,
intensive care, cardiac
catheterization,
research

Leadership and
management activities

Senior fellow, facilitator

of pediatrics intern
cardiology rotation

2. Percent Effort (should total 100%)

Research and
scholarly activities

15

Teaching and
mentoring activities

25

Service and
citizenship activities

Clinical activities

55

Leadership and
management activities

3. Short-term career goals (1-3+ years)

Goals

Competencies/skills/knowledge needed (Areas you need to develop)

Have a major role in the college -Understanding of the medical school curriculum
of medicine.
-Develop research skills in medical education
-Train to be a mentor for medical students
Become a confident independent -Keep current with the pediatric cardiology literature
cardiologist
-Develop my individual style of practice
-Pass pediatric cardiology boards
Become an assistant fellowship -Become more involved in graduate medical education committees
or residency director

4. Mid-term career goals (3+ years)

Goals

Win a teaching award

Competencies/skills/knowledge needed (Areas you need to develop)

-Become a better presenter.

-Develop a unique teaching style that is more learner-centered than teachercentered.
-Develop mentorship skills

Increase my FTE in medical

education
Publish regularly in medical
education journals

-Acquire basic statistics skills.

-Network with others in the field to partner on projects

5. Long-term career goals (5+ years)

Goals

Competencies/skills/knowledge needed (Areas you need to develop)

Become an assistant professor

-Produce scholarly work on a regular basis

-Participate actively in faculty development

Present my research at a major -Confidence in public speaking

academic conference
-Improve presentation skills (slow speech, articulate better)
Become an editor at a major
medical education peerreviewed journal

-Publish regularly in major journals

-Offer to review submitted manuscripts

6. Development plan for acquiring competencies/skills/knowledge needed

(Areas you need to develop in order to achieve your short, mid, and long-term goals)
Specific
competencies/
skills/knowledge
needed

Action steps for

acquiring

Involvement of
manager, mentors,
etc.

Target
dates/incremental
milestones

Outcomes (successes
or failures)

-Keep current with

the pediatric
cardiology literature
-Develop my
individual style of
practice
-Pass boards

-Maintain continuing N/A

education credits
-Attend an annual
cardiology conference

1-2 years

-Rely less on colleagues

to manage patients.
-Pass boards.

Improve public
speaking skills

-Workshop offered by N/A

the ACC. Currently
applying for a
scholarship to attend.
-Self-reflection after
each presentation
given. Review videos
of performance if
available.

1 year

Become a better
presenter.

Research and
Attend the AAMC
Work with John
statistics knowledge MERC (medical
Mahan, Suzie Reed,
education research Larry Hurdubist.
curriculum) sessions

Within 1-2 years.

Be able to take raw

data and perform basic
statistical analysis.

Develop mentorship Participate in faculty Model behavior from 2-3 years

skills
development.
my own mentors.

Be identified by
trainees as a mentor.

-Publish regularly in
major journals
-Offer to review
submitted
manuscripts

Be identified by
colleagues as a
knowledgeable medical
educator.

Attend writing and

editing workshops

Faculty members who 3 years

are published.