{"id":6283,"date":"2011-01-31T23:09:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-01T04:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/?p=6283"},"modified":"2011-07-19T17:44:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T21:44:10","slug":"learning-to-networknetworking-to-learn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/2011\/01\/31\/learning-to-networknetworking-to-learn\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Network\/Networking to Learn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I attended a heart failure meeting in Florida. It was designed as a small meeting where fellows interested in heart failure got the opportunity to meet with heart failure faculty from across the country. The meeting provided various teaching seminars as well as one-on-one meetings and workshops. It was a unique experience that offered us fellows the chance to get career advice and research ideas.<\/p>\n<p>This meeting was probably the closest I have ever come in my cardiology fellowship to actually network. Where career advancement is concerned, we fellows place most of our efforts into finding mentors and obtaining publications. But all of us are on the same trajectory \u2014 in a year or two, we will be looking for jobs or subspeciality fellowships. So how do we go about that?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Should we be networking more to get more opportunities when we finish fellowship?<\/li>\n<li>If so, how, or where, could we do this? Are meetings like <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/networking-at-aha\/\">AHA<\/a> are too oversized to offer this opportunity?<\/li>\n<li>Or are our research and clinical collaborations considered to be networking?<\/li>\n<li>Also, many of the smaller meetings have industry sponsorship. Some institutions do not let their fellows go to these meetings, even though they are among the most worthwhile. Is that the right approach?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Where do <em>you<\/em> set up the boundaries between education, collaboration, and networking? Is any gathering a networking opportunity?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I attended a heart failure meeting in Florida. It was designed as a small meeting where fellows interested in heart failure got the opportunity to meet with heart failure faculty from across the country. The meeting provided various teaching seminars as well as one-on-one meetings and workshops. It was a unique experience that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":280,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[476,195],"class_list":["post-6283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-aha","tag-fellowship-training-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/280"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nejm.org\/cardioexchange\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}