The College of Medicine provides a robust ecosystem of offices, centers and initiatives designed to support your growth as a researcher, leader and educator.
Together, these career development and learning resources help you build core skills, strengthen your funding competitiveness, expand your professional networks and develop a successful, well-rounded academic career.
Explore specialized growth resources
- FAME (Center for Faculty Advancement, Mentoring and Engagement) – Focuses on faculty success through strategic career development in leadership, clinical excellence, education and scholarship.
- WIMS (Widening Impact in Medicine and Science) – Helps create an environment where faculty can advance, lead and thrive through institutional advocacy, visibility and inclusive academic excellence.
- Office of Physician Scientist Education and Training – Delivers targeted education, mentorship and professional development programs across the physician-scientist career continuum to strengthen research training and collaboration.
- Biomedical Research Training – Provides foundational research opportunities and training pathways specifically designed for medical school and postdoctoral learners.
Additional campus resources
Discover more career development and learning initiatives available across The Ohio State University campus.
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CTSI supports clinical research professionals at every stage with:
- Targeted career development and learning Initiatives – To accelerate scientific growth and innovation and empower clinical research professionals.
- RAPTIC (Research Accelerator Program to Translate, Innovate and Commercialize) – To bridge the gap between academic discovery and real-world application.
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ERIK offers specialized avenues to help junior faculty build competitive funding portfolios:
- The CAREER Proposal Development Program, a collaboration across The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University College of Engineering and ERIK, helps early-career faculty members pursue prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER awards in research and education.
- The Early Career Faculty Research Development Program, which houses the CAREER awards, helps tenure-track faculty members pursue federally funded, early-career grants across agencies like the Department of Defense, NASA, the United States Department of Agriculture and the Department of Education. Through webinars, coaching, proposal development and agency networking, the program expands funding opportunities alongside existing NSF and NIH support.
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In alignment with Ohio State’s land-grant mission, the Office of Outreach and Engagement hosts the Engaged Scholars Academy.
This one-year, cohort-based professional development initiative helps assistant professors deepen their community partnership practices and develop leadership skills to address pressing societal challenges. Priority is given to tenure-track faculty.
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The Michael V. Drake Institute for Teaching and Learning drives, coordinates and partners on institutional initiatives to cultivate teaching excellence across The Ohio State University.
The institute helps faculty and graduate and postdoctoral candidates enhance their instructional strategies, improve the learning experience and advance their academic careers through:
- Curated teaching endorsements
- Individualized instructional consultations
- Structured professional development programs
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The Ohio State University Libraries play a pivotal role in supporting the career development and learning journeys of researchers across the College of Medicine.
Specialized spaces, expertise and training infrastructure includes the:
- Research Commons – Offering advanced workshops, consultations and digital tools tailored to data management, visualization and geospatial analysis.
- Health Sciences Library – Fostering professional growth and accelerating the translational discoveries of medical researchers through:
- Targeted training in systematic reviews
- Bibliometrics
- Clinical data management