Bailey David N, Lipscomb Mary F, Gorstein Fred, Wilkinson David, Sanfilippo Fred
Department of Pathology University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Department of Pathology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA.
Acad Pathol. 2017 Oct 13;4:2374289517733734. doi: 10.1177/2374289517733734. eCollection 2017 Jan-Dec.
The 2016 Association of Pathology Chairs annual meeting featured a discussion group of Association of Pathology Chairs senior fellows (former chairs of academic departments of pathology who have remained active in Association of Pathology Chairs) that focused on how they decided to transition from the chair, how they prepared for such transition, and what they did after the transition. At the 2017 annual meeting, the senior fellows (encompassing 481 years of chair service) discussed lessons they learned from service as chair. These lessons included preparation for the chairship, what they would have done differently as chair, critical factors for success as chair, factors associated with failures, stress reduction techniques for themselves and for their faculty and staff, mechanisms for dealing with and avoiding problems, and the satisfaction they derived from their service as chair. It is reasonable to assume that these lessons may be representative of those learned by chairs of other specialties as well as by higher-level academic administrators such as deans, vice presidents, and chief executive officers. Although the environment for serving as a department chair has been changing dramatically, many of the lessons learned by former chairs are still valuable for current chairs of any length of tenure.
2016年病理学主席协会年会设有一个由病理学主席协会高级会员（病理学学术部门的前任主席，他们仍活跃于病理学主席协会）组成的讨论小组，该小组聚焦于他们如何决定从主席职位上过渡，如何为此类过渡做准备，以及过渡之后做了什么。在2017年年会上，这些高级会员（他们担任主席的服务年限总计481年）讨论了他们从担任主席的经历中学到的经验教训。这些经验教训包括担任主席职位的准备工作、如果再次担任主席会有哪些不同做法、担任主席取得成功的关键因素、与失败相关的因素、他们自己以及教职员工和工作人员的减压技巧、处理和避免问题的机制，以及他们从担任主席的服务中获得的满足感。有理由认为，这些经验教训可能也代表了其他专业的主席以及院长、副校长和首席执行官等高层学术管理人员所学到的经验教训。尽管担任系主任的环境一直在急剧变化，但前任主席学到的许多经验教训对现任主席来说，无论任期长短，仍然很有价值。
