Facts and Outcomes

NCLAM began in 1999. The eleventh class completed the program in September 2009.

  • 179 junior faculty members have completed the NCLAM program

  •   103 females
      76 males
      29 underrepresented minority faculty
  • Participants come from both the Clinical and Research tracks

  •   110 M.D.
      43 Ph.D.
      15 M.D., Ph.D.
      7 Pharm.D.
      1 D.P.M.
      2 D.O.
  • Junior faculty participants have come from 14 of 14 School of Medicine departments and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences.
  • 123 Senior faculty members have served as mentors
  • Participants report being more confident of their roles in academic medicine after participating in NCLAM. At the beginning and again at the conclusion of the program, each NCLAM participant completes a self-assessment survey, measuring his/her confidence in four areas necessary for success in academic medicine.
    Confidence scores improve in all four areas:

Skill Area Improvement
Professional Development 50%
Research 22%
Education 35%
Administration 79%

Academic Dissemination

Published articles:

  • Mark S, Link H, Morahan PS, Pololi L, Reznik V, Tropez-Sims S. Innovative Mentoring Programs to Promote Gender Equity in Academic Medicine. Academic Medicine, 76:(1)39-42, 2001
  • Garman KA, Wingard D, Reznik V. Development of Junior Faculty's Self-Efficacy: Outcomes of a National Center of Leadership in Academic Medicine. Academic Medicine, S76:(10)S74-S76, Oct. 2001
  • Wingard DL, Garman KA, Reznik V. Facilitating Faculty Success: Outcomes and Cost Benefit of the UCSD National Center of Leadership in Academic Medicine. Academic Medicine, 79:S9-S11, 2004
  • Daley S, Wingard DL, Reznik V. Improving the Retention of Under Represented Minority Faculty in Academic Medicine. Journal of the National Medical Association, Vol. 98. No. 9: 1435-1440, 2006
  • Wingard DL, Reznik V, Daley SP. Career Experiences and Perceptions of Under Represented Minority Medical School Faculty Journal of National Medical Association 100:9, September 2008
  • Ries AL, Wingard DL, Morgan C, Farrell E, Letter S, Reznik V. Retention of Junior Faculty in Academic Medicine. Academic Medicine, 81: (1) 37-41, 2009

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