Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 - Choosing a Mentor -- Choosing a Research Mentor -- Qualities of a Good Mentor -- Additional Qualities of a Good Mentor -- Timeline of Activities for Establishing a National Reputation -- Selecting a Mentor -- How Do You Know If Someone Is a Bad Mentor? -- Which Aspects of Your Career Require Mentoring? -- One Mentor Is Good -- More Than One Mentor Is Better -- You Never Outgrow Your Need for Mentors -- Mentoring Is a Two-Way Street -- Rewards of Being a Mentor -- Developing Your Mentoring Skills -- Chapter 2 - Preparing for Graduate or Professional School -- Choose a Training Program Carefully -- Questioning Your Decisions Is Normal -- Success Requires Passion -- Questions to Consider in Choosing a Career Path -- Which Training Programs in Your Chosen Field Are the Best for You? -- The Application Process -- The Interview -- Questions You Should Ask during Your Interview -- Choose a Program for Its Strengths, Not Its Status -- If You and Your Partner Are Applying at the Same Time -- Schedule for Applying to Graduate or Professional Training Programs -- Choose a Training Program That Will Form the Basis of Your Career -- Chapter 3 - Preparing an Abstract for a Professional Meeting -- Presentations at Professional Meetings Are Critical for the Foundation of Your Network and Your Career -- Know the Goals of Your Presentation as You Prepare Your Abstract -- To Be Effective, Good Science Requires Good Writing -- A Successful Abstract Is Focused and Understandable -- Who Reviews Your Abstract? -- What Criteria Do Abstract Reviewers Use? -- Components of an Abstract -- Suggestions to Improve the Clarity of Your Abstract -- Avoid Bad Abstracts -- Build Your Career on Quality -- Timeline for Abstract Preparation -- Chapter 4 - Presenting at Professional Meetings.

Prepare a Professional, Polished Presentation -- Effective Poster Presentation -- Effective PowerPoint Preparation -- The Ten-Minute Talk -- Practice for the Questions After You Practice Your Talk -- The Number of PowerPoint Slides for Your Presentation Should Be Planned Ahead of Time -- Be Sure to Acknowledge the Work of Others -- Preview Your Presentation and the Podium, and Be Gracious before, during and after Your Presentation -- Chapter 5 - Marketing Your Ideas through Publications -- How to Write Review Articles and Chapters -- Know the Review Mechanism for the Journal You Select -- Responding to Reviewers' Comments -- How Reviewers Are Selected -- How to Review a Manuscript -- How Editors Are Selected -- Writing Books -- Chapter 6 - Gender Issues -- The Importance of a Positive Attitude -- Benefits of Support Programs for Women -- Problems with Support Programs for Women -- Inability to Make Gender-Neutral Choices -- Translating Your Values into Action -- "Less" Can Be More -- Equal Opportunity -- Lack of Mobility or Inopportune Mobility -- Chapter 7 - Underrepresented Groups -- A Positive Attitude Goes a Long Way -- Benefits of Support Groups for Underrepresented Members -- Problems with Support Programs for Underrepresented Groups -- Assumptions Regarding a Return to the Underrepresented Group -- Chapter 8 - Preparing for Postgraduate or Postprofessional Training -- Postdoctoral Training -- You Need to Think beyond the Typical Department in a Large University or Professional School -- Postprofessional Training -- Set Goals during Your Postprofessional Training -- Chapter 9 - Applying for, Negotiating, and Choosing a Job -- Use Your Training Programs to Prepare for Your Job -- Your Curriculum Vitae Is a Reflection of Your Professional Career -- Selecting a Position -- The One-Hour Talk, Including the Job Application Seminar.

The Job Interview -- Negotiating a Contract -- Smooth Transitions-Leaving -- Smooth Transitions-Arriving -- Chapter 10 - Developing Time Management Skills and Short-Term and Long-Term Goals -- Focus to Achieve Success -- Do Not Expect Too Much from Yourself Too Soon -- How Do You Define Success? -- Chapter 11 - Developing Your Grant-Writing Skills -- Selecting Grant Opportunities -- Organization of the National Institutes of Health -- Writing a Grant: Selecting the Specific Aims, Preparing the Budget Justification, and Developing the Research Proposal -- Timeline for Establishing a Research Career -- Preparing the Grant Proposal -- Five-Month Timeline for Preparing and Submitting a Grant Proposal -- Writing Style -- Budget Justification -- If You Have to Prepare a Detailed Budget -- Special Funding for Trainees -- Interaction with the Review Group before Review -- How Review Groups Work -- Criteria for Grant Review -- Responding to the Reviewers' Comments -- Clinical Trials Research -- Chapter 12 - Developing Your Teaching Skills -- Teaching Is the Core of Academics -- The Teacher Is a Good Listener, Enthusiastic Encourager, and Effective Motivator -- The Teacher Respects the Student -- Knowledge Begets Organization and Confidence -- The Teacher Is a Learner -- Be Responsive to Your Critics -- Establish Mechanisms for Feedback -- Teaching May Not Be the Only Criterion for Promotion -- Teach at Every Opportunity-and Plan Opportunities -- Learn to Deal Positively with the Disruptive Student -- Keep Appropriate Distance between You and Your Students -- Consider Your Interactions with the Media to Be Opportunities to Teach the Public -- Chapter 13 - Developing Your Leadership Skills -- You Are a Leader -- Valid Reasons to Become a Leader That Are Realistic and Organization-Centered.

Invalid Reasons to Become a Leader That Are Unrealistic and Self-Centered -- Even in Groups of Two Individuals, One Will Be a Leader -- Important Qualities in Successful Leaders -- Know When to Say When -- What Are the Opportunities for Leadership in Research? -- What Are the Opportunities for Leadership in Teaching? -- What Are the Opportunities for Leadership in Administration? -- Steps in Developing Leadership Skills -- Burdens and Benefits of Leadership -- In Academics You Own Your Own Career -- Chapter 14 - Conflicts of Interest -- As a Mentor -- As a Member of the Admissions Committee for a Graduate or Professional School -- As a Reviewer of Abstracts for a Professional Meeting -- As a Reviewer of Manuscripts for a Professional Journal -- As a Member of a Selection Committee for Postgraduate or Postprofessional Trainees -- As a Member of the Selection Committee for a New Faculty Member -- As a Reviewer of Grant Applications -- As a Teacher -- As a Leader -- Institutional Conflict-of-Interest Policy -- Policies of Professional Societies and Other Lecture Venues -- Chapter 15 - Human Subjects Research -- Criteria for Studies Exempt from Review -- Submitting a Protocol to the Review Board That Is Not Eligible for an Exemption -- Reporting an Adverse Event to the Review Board -- Research Involving Members of Vulnerable Groups -- Payment for Participation in Research -- Emergency Care and Compensation for Injury as the Result of Participation in Research -- FDA Approval Required for Research on a New Drug or a New Medical Device -- Questions to Be Answered in the Human Subjects Research Protocol -- Translating the Protocol into the Informed-Consent Form -- Chapter 16 - Research with Animals -- Role of the Animal Research Committee -- Role of the Veterinarians -- Information in an Animal Research Protocol -- Chapter 17 - Data and Sample Management.

Ownership of Data -- Confidentiality of Data -- Sharing of Data Sets and Samples -- Controversy Regarding Sample Ownership -- Management of Tissue Banks -- Requirements of Funding Agencies and Journals -- Chapter 18 - Ethical Behavior -- Develop Fundamental Principles for Dealing with Ethical Dilemmas -- Ethical Situations -- Conclusion -- Index.