TRANSFORM scholars will complete six month-long online leadership modules. These modules:

• TRANSFORM leadership modules will build on and more deeply explore the concepts offered at the AAMC Mid-Career Minority Faculty Leadership Seminar.
• Online modules will draw extensively on the lived experience, knowledge, and culture of participants.

Module Topics:

• Navigating Academia as an Under-Represented Faculty Member
• Nurturing Your Well-Being
• Strengths-Based Leadership
• Strategic Career Planning
• Building National Visibility by Leveraging Social Capital
• Career and Resource Sustainability

TRANSFORM scholars will:

• Be matched with a mentor who has appropriate areas of scientific expertise and experience. The mentor will help the scholar address academic and research-related challenges specific to mid-career faculty.
• Use a "text-mentoring" app to communicate with their mentor.
• Enlist the Customized Career Development Platform (CCDP) to develop and track career and leadership plans.
• Engage in peer-peer small-group mentoring, discussing challenges, practicing skills, and sharing strategies for success.

• Working with their institutional leader, scholars will identify an organizational change project which targets an issue of importance to both the institution and to the scholars’ leadership and professional goals.
• Scholars will present their completed projects at the end-of-program Symposium at the end of the program.

• Scholars will use the results of baseline assessments that measure psychological safety, resilience, and self-efficacy to identify personal learning goals
• Scholars will participate in a culturally tailored, innovative coaching series for a total of 6, one-hour virtual sessions.
• Scholars will work in small peer-to-peer mentoring groups to share challenges, strengths-based practice skills, and strategies for success.