NCFDD Membership

NCFDD is an independent professional development, training and mentoring community for faculty, post-docs and graduate students, and other members of the academic community dedicated to successful career advancement and professional growth. NCFDD offers workshops, professional development training, and intensive mentorship programs.

The NCFDD training teaches concrete, empirically tested strategies for increasing productivity and pays special attention to the challenges of underrepresented faculty. In addition to monthly training workshops, NCFDD provides an opportunity for individual scholars to become more effective.

As an institutional member of the NCFDD, the MGH Institute community has access to relevant professional development training, support from highly trained and successful mentors, a confidential “safe space” for problem solving, and on-demand tools and resources.

Weekly Monday Motivator newsletters
The NCFDD Core Curriculum (more info below)
Guest Expert Webinars and Multi-Week Skill-Building Courses (more info below)
Hidden Handbook series
Dissertation Success Curriculum for advanced graduate students
14-Day Writing Challenges
Discussion Forum for peer-mentoring and problem-solving
Monthly accountability buddy matches, by request
Moderated monthly writing challenges
Early Career Faculty Guidebook
Library of educational webinars and multi-week course recordings

Webinar Series

Utilize an extensive library of trainings offered with NCFDD membership. Development opportunities include core curriculum workshops, writing challenges, and guest expert webinars. Please log in to your NCFDD account for a complete list of upcoming webinar events.

Core Curriculum

The NCFDD core curriculum is designed to support the development of 10 essential skills and strategies that support career success in academia, including:

Individual strategic planning
Developing a consistent daily writing habit
Aligning time with evaluation criteria
Confronting and overcoming writing resistance
Resolving conflict in a healthy way
Learning the art of saying “no”
Managing stress and rejection
Cultivating a network of mentors, sponsors, collaborators

The core curriculum teaches empirically tested best practices for all faculty. These foundational skills are critical to academic success and transcend discipline, rank, race, and gender, thus equitably benefiting many faculty, graduate students, and postdocs at any institution. Additionally, the curriculum also directly addresses unique challenges and obstacles that underrepresented scholars face. This is a highly unique aspect of the curriculum and ensures that resources are essential tools for all members of the campus community.

Resources for greater success in publication and scholarly dissemination
Tools for securing external funding for your research
Strategies to gain confidence as an independent researcher
Tips for fostering better working relationships with colleagues
Opportunities to grow your network with both campus-based and external mentors, sponsors, and collaborators
Increased job satisfaction and techniques to support work-life integration

As a member of the MGH Institute community, you can register as a member of NCFDD at no additional cost. Use your MGH Institute email to register online:

Go to NCFDD.org/Join
Choose MGH Institute of Health Professions from the drop-down menu.
Select “Activate my Membership”
Complete the registration form using your institutional email address (i.e. @mghihp.edu)
Go to your institution email to find a confirmation email. Click “Activate Account” in the confirmation email.

Questions? Need Help?

We encourage you to take advantage of the resources available to you through the NCFDD. If you have any questions or comments, please email the Provost Office or for technical questions, contact the NCFDD at Membership@ncfdd.org.

Provost Office

The Office of the Provost provides leadership in areas of academic and student affairs

Provost Office

provost@mghihp.edu
(617) 726-8008
B34 - 2nd floor